Non-Fiction Book Reviews for 2024

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This is the page of my non-fiction book reviews in 2024, organised by the start/end date the story was read in reverse chronological order.

Reviewed in 2024

• Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean by Matt Strassler (2024/09/30)
• Birth of the Shinkansen: The Origin Story of the World-First Bullet Train by Tetsuo Shimomae (2024/09/04)
• Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy (2024/08/27)
• “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch (2024/07/23)
• The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas S. Mullaney (2024/07/10)
• Quantum Computing for Everyone by Chris Bernhardt (2024/06/11)
• Bubbles by Helen Czerski (2024/05/16)
• The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski (2024/05/08)
• Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb (2024/04/29)
• Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way by Roma Agrawal (2024/02/22)
• The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves by Kip Thorne, Lia Halloran (2024/02/12)
• How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball (2024/01/27)
• Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It by Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris (2024/01/08)