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I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Friday, November 30, 2018

Review: The Water Will Come - Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

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The Water Will Come has a nice long bombastic title. The subject of course, is ocean levels rising and the impact it will have on coastal c...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Review: Factfulness

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Factfulness is Hans Rosling's legacy: he wrote the book and it was published after he passed away. The book is a great accompaniment an...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Review: Blue Planet II

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BBC's Natural History unit has a well deserved reputation for being the best in the business. I'd go so far as to say that their doc...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Review: Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow

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Sequels are rarely as good as their example, but I've had good luck with non-fiction, as long as the author picked a completely differen...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Review: The Last Child in The Woods

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I really wanted to like The Last Child in The Woods . I grew up in Singapore, in a city where door-to-door inspections have eliminated the A...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century is Thomas Piketty's magnum opus about the future of capitalism and the implications thereof. It is ...
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