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Here's a bunch that are on the bookshelf at the moment:

- Information Rules - Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian

- Normal Accidents - Charles Perrow

- Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture - Mario Salvadori

- Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan Peterson

- The Power Broker - Robert Caro

- Political Order and Political Decay - Francis Fukuyama

- The Creators - Daniel Boorstin

- The Square and the Tower - Niall Ferguson




Great! Thanks for the recommendations.

Then, a note on "The Creators - Daniel Boorstin" for others, as I had a little trouble finding it:

Boorstin, D. J. (1993). The creators: A history of heroes of the imagination (Vol. 1). Vintage.




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