So if the USA wants to remain on top as an economic power house, why not shoot for having one billion Americans? Continue reading
Category Archives: Non fiction
Book review: A Promised Land
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
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
The stories centre around different criminal and non-criminal elements, all enmeshed in either committing or combatting cybercrime Continue reading
Book review: Irrationality
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
Book review: How to Suppress Women’s writing
Joanna Russ methodically goes through the various reasons, throughout the decades, that women’s (and other marginalised groups) writing is classed as inferior. Continue reading
Book review: Do What You Want
Do what you want is a history of one of my favourite bands, Bad Religion, who have been a band longer than I have been alive Continue reading
Book review: Lost Enlightenment
In short, the book looks at the period of Central Asian history of greatest scientific and other enquiry, taking us on an amazing voyage across a huge breadth of time and geography. Continue reading
Book review: Rebel Cell
This is such a great book, even though the subject matter is so tough. What I love about Kat’s writing is that it is effortless, and also very funny, even when the subject matter is about cancer. Continue reading
Book review: Because Internet
ecause Internet looks at internet language and culture, from a linguistic perspective. Which seems a bit stuffy, but is in fact, really very interesting. I liked how lots of the way we think about language and the internet fit in neatly with linguistic theory. Continue reading
