Updates

  1. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  2. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  3. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  4. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  5. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  6. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  7. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  8. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  9. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  10. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  11. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  12. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  13. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  14. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  15. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  16. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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General History

10 topics holding 869 books. Every book on General History has a page of its own.

American HistoryHolds histories of the United States: the founders, presidents, the Civil War, politics, law, cities and society.128 books
Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance HistoryHolds histories and primary sources on Greece, Rome, Byzantium, medieval Europe, the Mongols and Renaissance Italy.52 books
Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle EastHolds national and regional histories of China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, Australasia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, many…147 books
Economic and Business HistoryHolds histories of economic growth, trade, commodities, industrialisation, corporations and the tycoons who built them.112 books
Exploration and VoyagesHolds narratives of expeditions, voyages, shipwrecks and survival, from Marco Polo and the Portuguese navigators to Shackleton.18 books
Financial HistoryHolds histories of money, banking, bubbles, crashes, hyperinflations and Wall Street.53 books
Military HistoryHolds histories of wars, battles, generals and soldiers, centred on the two world wars, the Holocaust and the Cold War.44 books
Modern Europe and RussiaHolds the political, social and economic history of Britain, continental Europe, Russia and the former Soviet bloc from the 1600s to the present.87 books
Science, Technology and MedicineHolds histories of scientific discovery, mathematics, invention, computing, aviation, space flight, epidemics and medicine.130 books
World and Big HistoryHolds surveys of human history across continents and millennia, histories of ideas, religion and culture, and books that look for patterns in…98 books

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