If you were asked to choose a single book to introduce someone to a topic 'X', which book would you choose? You may choose multiple if necessary.
'The Annapolis Book of Seamanship' is the de-facto sailing 'bible', in my opinion.<p>'Machinery's Handbook' is my choice for metalworking.<p>'Drive to Win' and the other Carrol Smith driving books ('Engineering to Win', 'Tuning to Win') are great for people that want to get into high performance driving.<p>the 'U.S. Army Field Manual 3-05.70' is a fantastic introduction to survival bushcraft.<p>GNU's 'Introduction to the Command Line' is good for beginning the life-long journey into *nix CLI expert-dom.
<i>Guns, Germs, and Steel</i> is the book that made history "click" for me<p>Borovik's and Gardiner's <i>The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems</i> is a great technical overview of math<p><i>How to Win Friends and Influence People</i> remains the definitive guide on soft-skills<p>"Let It Rot!" is a good guide to composting
I never loved biology in school. Then I came across this post: <a href="https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/" rel="nofollow">https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/</a><p>Then I read <i>Machinery of Life</i> by David S. Goodsell
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6601267" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6601267</a><p>I was just plain amazed that a subject can be presented in such a way.