Non-Fiction Book Reviews
This is the main page of my non-fiction book reviews, organised by the start/end date the book is read in reverse chronological order.
Non-fiction books reviewed by year
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Latest Reviews Added
- 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)
- Impressions of Rosetta’s Legacy by Various (2016/12/28)
- 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)
- 20 Goto 10: 10101001 Facts About Retro Computers by Steven Goodwin (2023/11/02)
- Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen by Gregory J. Gbur (2023/10/23)
- Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Naish, Paul Barrett (2017/02/03)
- Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston (2023/09/24)
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin (2017/10/19)
- The Saturn System:Through the Eyes of Cassini by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2017/11/05)
- Hubble Focus: Our Amazing Solar System by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2017/11/05)
- Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough (2017/11/20)
- My Life With The Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall (2018/01/16)
- Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles by Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik (2018/01/19)
- Hidden Kingdom: The Insect Life of Costa Rica by Piotr Naskrecki (2018/01/25)
- Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott (2023/09/04)
- Rejected Princesses: Tales Of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, And Heretics by Jason Porath (2018/02/05)
- The Chinese Typewriter: A History by Thomas S. Mullaney (2018/02/19)