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Book review: How to be a Liberal
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: How to be a Liberal

Posted on January 27, 2023 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

How to be a Liberal chronicles how liberal thought developed, and how liberal thinkers responded to challenges in the past right up to today. Continue reading →

Book review: Out on your feet
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Book review: Out on your feet

Posted on January 20, 2022 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

This book was recommended by a work colleague and I’m so glad he did! The book’s full title is Out on your feet: The Hallucinatory World of Hundred-Mile Walking. As it says, it’s a book about very long distance walking. But also walking that all in one go, so within 48 hours. People don’t sleep … Continue reading →

Book review: The Scout Mindset
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Book review: The Scout Mindset

Posted on January 11, 2022 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

he book outlines that most of the way we think are like a ‘soldier’, we determine whether or not something fits into an existing pattern or belief, and try to rationalise away those that don’t. The Scout, does the opposite, they attempt to find out whether or not something is true. Continue reading →

Book Review: Where there’s a will
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Book Review: Where there’s a will

Posted on January 8, 2022 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So for the uninitiated, which was me prior to reading this book, the main actions focusses around the Transcontinental race, which is a self-supported, long distance bike race across Europe. Continue reading →

Book review: Wanderers – a history of women walking
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Book review: Wanderers – a history of women walking

Posted on October 31, 2021 by blogendorff • 1 Comment

While the book annoyed me occasionally (usually the post-modern trips over words and language), it did me the utmost service of bringing my attention to these wonderful women. Continue reading →

Book review: One Billion Americans
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Book review: One Billion Americans

Posted on February 18, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So if the USA wants to remain on top as an economic power house, why not shoot for having one billion Americans? Continue reading →

Book review: A Promised Land
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: A Promised Land

Posted on February 13, 2021 by blogendorff • 1 Comment

he first reason I liked it was that Obama is definitely a people person and it really shows. Every person who is introduced, from his staff, to soldiers he meets, to foreign leaders get a paragraph about that person. Continue reading →

Book review: If Then
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Book review: If Then

Posted on January 24, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

What the book describes is the Simulmatics company, which got its life by trying to model the behaviour of electors in the 1960 election for the Democrats. But basically, it wasn’t a very good company, partly due to people and partly down to it basically being too early for its own good. Continue reading →

Book review: Kingdom of Lies, Adventures in Cybercrime
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Book review: Kingdom of Lies, Adventures in Cybercrime

Posted on January 10, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

The stories centre around different criminal and non-criminal elements, all enmeshed in either committing or combatting cybercrime Continue reading →

Book review: Irrationality
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: Irrationality

Posted on December 7, 2020 by blogendorff • 2 Comments

It is very much like Thinking, fast and slow, in that it details the various ways that our brain works against us when it comes to being rational. Continue reading →

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