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Atheism, Biography, Christianity, Counter Apologetics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion, Scepticism  0 Comments

February 19, 2021February 8, 2021

Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason – Seth Andrews

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

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English, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 22, 2021January 17, 2021

The Story of English in 100 Words – David Crystal

David Crystal wrote a nice little coffee-table of linguistic factoid.

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Non-Fiction, Religion, Science, Sociology  0 Comments

December 11, 2020November 9, 2020

McMindfullness – Ronald E. Purser

It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.

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Economics, Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

November 27, 2020October 2, 2020

The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mcafee

If you come into a book looking to answer just one question, you may come out of it disappointed.

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Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

November 13, 2020November 5, 2020

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right – Thomas Frank

Have certain aspects of the past few year’s political climate not made much sense to you? You are not alone.

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History, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

October 30, 2020September 16, 2020

Venice: A New History – Thomas F. Madden

Venice isn’t just a gem of a city, it is also one of the most historically significant cities in the world.

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Capitalism, Economics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

October 16, 2020September 9, 2020

The System Worked – Daniel W. Drezner

Paging Dr Pangloss.

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English, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

September 18, 2020September 5, 2020

The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson

Reading this felt like a review course, but maybe that isn’t always a bad thing.

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Atheism, Evolutionary Psychology, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Religion  0 Comments

September 4, 2020September 1, 2020

Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia

I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be

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Cognitive Science, Non-Fiction, Psychology  0 Comments

August 21, 2020August 10, 2020

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky

There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.

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