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May 8, 2019

Review: TED Talks, Chris Anderson

Rating: 4 out of 5 Very good and compelling advice for public speaking! Plenty here to enjoy also if one doesn’t have plans for…

March 28, 2019

Review: Eruption, Steve Olson

Rating: 5 out of 5 High praise for this! Not only did Mr Olson give a thorough overview of the story of (European) human…

March 1, 2019

Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 I found this an enlightening history which covered many a topic I had some idea of but also many…

January 7, 2019

Review: Strategy, Lawrence Freedman

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is so broad… The author talks about military, political, and economic strategy, with the one guiding principle across…

January 3, 2019

Review: What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard P. Feynman

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am particularly happy I chose to take up this book as the first one to read this year…

December 31, 2018

Review: Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is an… interesting… book. Most of other people seem to either love or hate it. I do not…

October 29, 2018

Review: Archipelago, Richard Grigg

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was a solid overview of the geological factors which have created the Hawaiian Islands with the complimentary diversions…

October 27, 2018

Review: Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5 This is a thorough look into the ideas and institutions that have built modern humanity with plentiful examples to…

August 31, 2018

Review: Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

I recently read Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’, and this short post here is meant to be a brief look at some points within…

August 27, 2018

Review: Surely, You Are Joking, Mr Feynman, Richard P. Feynman

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a wonderful moment when one reads the words of another person, and in these finds that they…

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