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Wow. I picked this up sight unseen from a recommendation on reddit. Great holiday read, and different. The aliens are refreshingly different and the middle half of the book is quite a ride.
The Joe Walker podcast has a great interview with Katalin Karikó, one of the scientists/founders behind mRNA technology.
Matthieu Aikins follows a brown refugee from Afghanistan through to Europe. It gives you an inside view of a refugees journey, starting from the why, to the how.
This is a book about climate change, all hung about on characters. Now Neal is great at learning things and telling them to you, and I've enjoyed his earlier works, info dumps and all. I like fantastical characters, like Jack, Eliza and Enoch Root in the Baroque Cycle, but this book... has a lot of ideas and interesting exposition on how a thing could practically happen, but don't read it for the ppl.
A good, easy to read book on how the British exited their Indian empire and left behind a fractured subcontinent.
The rise and fall of Arif Naqvi is fascinating, but I found this book a bit wanting.
It's a awesome political, economical and yes, climate overview of the planet and where its headed. Too much of future looking literature really holds its tongue. This is a no holds barred overview.
The book to read to get a handle of where Australia is today, and how politics works at the state and federal level.
So many ideas. It's my favourite first contact book. While some of the ideas might be over the top, they keep coming. Whats really impressive is that this is just book 1 of a trilogy and the ideas keep going.
This is a great statistics primer - Alex Reinhart explains commonly used statistical techniques in use by not just showing how ppl make mistakes, but by explaining them in simple english which actually makes sense, unlike most "real" statistics books.
Andrew Trask is an AI superstar, having come up with the idea for Generative Adverserial Networks (GANS) - one of the most exicting new AI techniques today - in a bar.
This is a awesome read. In many countries, many people have long stopped wondering or caring about how their country actually functions, and this book takes us through a bunch of really useful government functions, from providing food and shelter to the needy to... just about everything you can imagine.
Oh goody, yet another book written through colonial tinted glasses.