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Tag Archives: books

Free Books

April
2010

The thing that sucks most about my new iPad is the big pile of unread books by my bedside that I’ll never read now because I have them as free iBooks.

Why Darwin?

January
2010

[Clearing out my drafts folder while I wait for my meeting to start and discovered this. Dunno if it’s any good or why I wrote it.] Splendid wrap up of the Darwin Anniversary last year in the London Review of … Continue reading

100 Best Books

June
2009

It’s customary, whenever someone publishes a list of the 100 best anythings, to go down the list and Complain about the missing entries. Complain about the entries that don’t belong. Take perverse credit for the entries that are there. Without … Continue reading

Freedom tomorrow!

May
2009

I recently finished Michael Shermer’s Science of Good and Evil and reviewed it on Facebook. I have been enjoying Michael Shermer’s blog and writings in Skeptic magazine for a while now. His interviews with creationists are particularly spectactular. This book? … Continue reading

trash-talking blonde

February
2009

It’s a couple of years old, but this is the most delicious hostile review I think I have ever read. Any sane person who starts reading Godless will soon ask, Does Coulter really believe this stuff? The answer is that … Continue reading

Bonked

February
2009

If 200 pages of penis jokes and a history of sex studies and gynaecology sounds like your idea of fun, then this is the book for you. Highly recommended!

Objectivism for a New Century

January
2009

One of my new favourite blogs, Secular Right, has an open thread on Ayn Rand. I have never met a real life objectivist but the ones I have come across online have been batshit crazy and they are always engaged … Continue reading

Book Review: Envisioning Information

August
2008

Finished. What a delight! This one is a lot less prescriptive than The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and what one learns, one learns by osmosis. The book skips around a lot of different ideas and it reaches deep into … Continue reading