In the Mail: How To Teach Physics To Your Dog
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel Publishers Weekly What do dog treats and chasing squirrels have to do with quantum mechanics? Much more than you ...
Year: 2009
In the Mail: The Imperial Cruise
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley *Kirkus Reviews The story of a forgotten diplomatic excursion inspired by Theodore Roos...
The Passport by Herta Muller
I will be honest with you. I don’t read a lot of books by Noble Prize winners. It may be because I am a conservative troglodyte or maybe my tastes just do...
The Children of Odin – The Book of Northern Myths
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have developed a keen interest in myths and fairy tales. Natural I suppose with my history background as myths are...
Kindle and concentration camps
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Hearing that the Amazon Kindle had been compared to an eight-track player Alan Kaufman decided he needed a real attention grab...
A lot of tender ego rides on the result
Henry Kisor on editors and being edited: What’s That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness, my first book, first published away back in 1990, is being re-is...