Introduction to thermodynamics for non-physicists?
Hi all, can anyone recommend an introduction to thermodynamics aimed at non-physicists? I'm an academic so I'm not really after trivial pop, but something that deals with the concepts at stake (energy, work, conservation, entropy, Maxwell demon, etc etc), their history, but from the ground up. I also can't stand overly-excitable YouTubers, so ideally not that either.
It is not clear what your requirement is: actual understanding of thermodynamics (nobody does, just learn the equations); or the History of thermodynamics.
For the former, some scientific/math literacy is required. Eg: https://imechanica.org/files/An%20introduction%20to%20thermo...
For the history I have no clue: I am a pragmatic scientist and learn the current functioning models. (till they break).