Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Biology and natural history

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Books on cells and the machinery of life, and on animals, plants, ecosystems and the people who study them in the field.

Books 31Recommenders 22

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  1. On Growth and FormD'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1917
  2. The Wisdom of the HiveThomas D. Seeley, 1995
  3. Why Size MattersJohn Tyler Bonner, 2006
  4. The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben, 2015
  5. What is Life?Erwin Schrodinger, 1951
On Growth and FormOn Growth and Form
T1 On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson · 1917
Open LibraryGoodreads

How mathematics and physical forces shape the forms of living things.

The Wisdom of the HiveThe Wisdom of the Hive
T3 The Wisdom of the Hive
Thomas D. Seeley · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Honeybee colonies as a decentralised allocation and search system

“As Thomas Seeley writes in his delightful book, The Wisdom of the Hive” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: Capital Ideas Revisited (Legg Mason Capital Management)

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin

Why Size MattersWhy Size Matters
T3 Why Size Matters
John Tyler Bonner · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Hidden Life of TreesThe Hidden Life of Trees
T3 The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Forest ecology as a connected system; background for timberland owners

Recommended by: Morgan Housel, Patrick O'Shaughnessy

What is Life?
T4 What is Life?
Erwin Schrodinger · 1951
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

My Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other Animals
T4 My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell · 1963
Open LibraryGoodreads

A comic memoir of a boyhood on Corfu with an odd family and the island's wildlife.

Recommended by: Paul Graham

36 Lectures in Biology36 Lectures in Biology
T4 36 Lectures in Biology
S.E. Luria · 1975
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Eric Weinstein

Fishes of the WorldFishes of the World
T4 Fishes of the World
Joseph S. Nelson · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Plants of the GodsPlants of the Gods
T4 Plants of the Gods
Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Rätsch · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogenic plants and how people have used them.

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Molecular Biology of the CellMolecular Biology of the Cell
T4 Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Laura Deming, Sam Altman

BiologyBiology
T4 Biology
Neil A. Campbell · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Last Chance to SeeLast Chance to See
T4 Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy

The Way Life WorksThe Way Life Works
T4 The Way Life Works
Mahlon Hoagland · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Stewart Brand

The Vital QuestionThe Vital Question
T4 The Vital Question
Nick Lane · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Patrick Collison and 1 other

A Magic Web
T4 A Magic Web
Christian Ziegler · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ray Dalio

The Emperor of ScentThe Emperor of Scent
T4 The Emperor of Scent
Chandler Burr · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Eric Weinstein

H is for HawkH is for Hawk
T4 H is for Hawk
Helen MacDonald · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Diana Kimball

PerfumesPerfumes
T4 Perfumes
Luca Turin · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

An A-to-Z perfume guide whose authors praise, joke about and scold each scent.

Recommended by: Eric Weinstein

The Princeton Field Guide to DinosaursThe Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
T4 The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
Gregory S. Paul · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar

The TigerThe Tiger
T4 The Tiger
John Vaillant · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bryant Chou, Jordan Hughes and 2 others

Life on the EdgeLife on the Edge
T4 Life on the Edge
Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Vinod Khosla

On TrailsOn Trails
T4 On Trails
Robert Moor · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

What trails, from ant paths to continental hiking routes, show about the world.

Recommended by: Sahil Lavingia

The Serengeti RulesThe Serengeti Rules
T4 The Serengeti Rules
Sean B. Carroll · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ray Dalio

A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
T4 A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
Ben Garrod
Goodreads

Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar

Fauna & Family
T4 Fauna & Family
Gerald Durrell
Goodreads

Recommended by: Paul Graham

Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North Am
T4 Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America
National Geographic
Goodreads

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow (Princeton Paperbacks)
T4 Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow (Princeton Paperbacks)
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of theThe Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
T4 The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Machinery of LifeThe Machinery of Life
T4 The Machinery of Life
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Song of the CellThe Song of the Cell
T4 The Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco,
T4 Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco, The
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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