Today’s book review is Everything Bad is Good for You: How today’s popular culture is making us smarter, by Steven Johnson. I actually bought this book for E, as he is a computer games devotee from way back, and has expounded on their educational aspects before. In the end, heContinue Reading
Today’s book review is The Power of Babel – A Natural History of Language, by John McWhorter. I’ve never noticed it in a bookshop, but a friend bought it for me, and I’m very glad she did. My foreign language ability is pitiful (I did three years each of frenchContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough, by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss. Clive Hamilton is the Executive Director of the Australia Institute, a left leaning independent public policy research centre. Richard Denniss was formerly Chief of Staff of Natasha Stott-Despoja, when she was leaderContinue Reading
This week’s book review is The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki. I remember a friend getting very annoyed with one of those “management training” exercises designed to prove that eight headsContinue Reading
Today’s book review is Stasiland, by Anna Funder. Stasiland is the former East Germany, and this book is the story of people who Anna Funder met in East Germany, and what life was really like for them. It is a powerful story, and told in wonderfully evocative language that getsContinue Reading
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