One of the advantages of writing book reviews for your own blog is that you can choose only to review those books that you like. This definitely applies to the book I would like to talk about today: Postwar, a history of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt.
Tony Judt is a Cambridge trained historian whose [...]
No matter how many fancy internet applications become available to us, language barriers are still very real. As it was with the book I wanted to talk about today: People like us from Joris Luyendijk. Originally only released in Dutch, People like us (or in Dutch ‘Het zijn net mensen’) sold very well, but [...]
Today in 1937 the wonderful The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in London. The author had intended the book for his children, but after a friend read it, she recommended it to the publisher.
It was so successful, that it was sold out in three months. Because of paper sanctioning during wartime, the book was [...]
Jared Diamond spent most of his career being a scholar of biology and ecology. In his fifties however he started a second career as a writer of popular science books. His most successful book up to date, his 1997 Guns, Germs and Steel, won a Pulitzer price. In 2005 he released his most recent book [...]
It’s Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday in a couple of weeks. No wonder then that there are currently many events in London to commemorate the seminal scientist. The Natural History Museum, for example, is hosting a small exhibition featuring many of his original notebooks, items from the Beagle (the ship that took him to the Galapagos [...]
A few minutes ago, I decided to put aside the book The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm Kendrick. Actually, I was given the Dutch translation (EAN 9789085711711) to read. Google will give you a long list of bookreviews and bloggers praising the book by “Dr. Kendrick,” but the website of THe International Cholesterol Sceptics (THINCS) [...]
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