Books like The Universal Computer
12 books with a reading profile close to The Universal Computer by Martin Davis. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Machines Who Think
Also outward-looking · technical, history
Pamela McCorduck chronicles the evolution of artificial intelligence from its roots in ancient mythology and clockwork automata to the formal 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project.
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Tom Holland chronicles the collapse of the Roman Republic, beginning with the rise of Sulla and concluding with the establishment of the principate under Augustus.
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Damascus
by Ross Burns
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Ross Burns provides a chronological history of Damascus, focusing on how its urban layout and architectural layers reflect shifting political control.
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Russia and the Russians
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Geoffrey Hosking analyzes the tension between the expansion of the Russian state and the development of its national identity.
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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Jonathan Harris reconstructs the urban landscape and political culture of Constantinople during the peak of its influence around the year 1200.
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Food and Drink in Medieval Poland
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Maria Dembinska provides a technical reconstruction of dietary patterns in Poland from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
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The Invention of the Restaurant
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Rebecca Spang traces the origins of the restaurant to eighteenth-century Paris, arguing that these establishments did not begin as places for gluttony, but as quasi-medical spas.
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Art Through the Ages
Also outward-looking · technical, history
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages organizes the history of visual expression into a chronological survey of global civilizations.
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Curry
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Lizzie Collingham traces the evolution of Indian cuisine by analyzing how centuries of migration, conquest, and trade dictated the contents of the subcontinent's kitchen.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Violin
Also outward-looking · technical, history
This volume provides a technical and chronological overview of the violin, covering its physical evolution from the sixteenth century to the modern era.
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