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33% complete! Ian Slinger has read 4 of 12 books.
Pirsig's narrative of a father and son on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest becomes a profound personal and …
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early …
Some fascinating insights into Turing's work but the book goes into excruciating detail of his personal life.
Probably should expect that from a biography, and it was worth it for the insights into cryptography and his seminal work on computability theory.
I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If …
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas …
appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to …
"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure …
Chasing the Scream (2015, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs -- propelled by moving human stories, …
A guide to writing English informed by recent scholarship (linguistics, cognative science, and such like).
The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and …
