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Category Archives: Books
Book Museum
WITH the dawning of the age of e-books, libraries such as this huge one in Stockholm, Sweden will soon get a new name: Book Museums. It will probably take many more years before all of the books in this gargantuan … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Curiosities, Musings, MY VARIED INTERESTS, P.E.P. TALK, Places, Technology, THOSE THINGS I DO
Tagged book museum, Books, e-books, library, Stockholm Library, Sweden
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Cool Stuff: Book Recycling Ideas with a Touch of Art
WITH more and more people switching to e-Books, traditional books will have to find some other ways to remain useful. Here are some really ingenious ideas from Recyclart.
SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
LEVITT AND DUBNER’s second helping of their accidental bestseller, FREAKONOMICS, is as entertaining as the first one. Human behaviors (weird human behaviors, that is) and unusual occurrences never fail to amaze — and entertain. SUPERFREAKNOMICS extensively featured our very own … Continue reading
Posted in Books, MY VARIED INTERESTS, Raves, THOSE THINGS I DO
Tagged DWT, Freakonomics, Mt. Pinatubo, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, SuperFreakonomics
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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
CAN I consider myself an “outlier”? To a certain extent I believe I can. Most other people can say the same, too. Which makes me (and them) not really outliers after all. This very idea of “outliers” is quite confusing, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, MY VARIED INTERESTS
Tagged Blink, Broken Window, Dubner, Freakonomics, Levitt, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, SuperFreakonomics, Tipping Point
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A book about One-Night Stands, anyone?
I just chanced upon this book in my iBook library and got curious. A collection of one night stands? Now who wouldn’t be curious with that? I haven’t read many books by female authors, especially with (semi) biographic formats. But … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Curiosities, MY VARIED INTERESTS
Tagged Books, Chelsea Handler, Horizontal Life, One-Night Stand
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Finally found – and read – Raise The Titanic!
I HAD BEEN searching for this Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt classic for the past ten years without success. I visited almost all Book Sale and other “used book” outlets in Metro Manila and other cities looking for this book. When … Continue reading
Posted in Books, MY VARIED INTERESTS, Raves, Technology, THOSE THINGS I DO
Tagged Amazon, Book Sale, Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt, Dirk Pitt novel, eBooks, epub, eReaders, iPad, Raise the Titanic, Titanic
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Back to reading. Thanks to the iPad.
I haven’t blogged about the books I’ve read for quite some time. That’s because I haven’t read a book for quite some time. Sad.
Posted in Books, MY VARIED INTERESTS, Raves, Technology
Tagged An Unfinished Life, Books, eBooks, iBook, iPad, JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, reading, Robert, Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction
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Here comes Google’s E-Books Store
eBooks get another major boost with the opening of Google’s eBooks Store. Bookworms all over the world are surely delighted. I for one is very excited about this. I love iBook on my iPad/iPhone but I welcome this new development. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, MY VARIED INTERESTS, Technology
Tagged eBooks, Google, Google Ebooks, iBooks, iPad, iphone
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A new and different Mathematics
Haha, I love Craig Damrauer’s NEW MATH. You are sure to love it, too, even if you’ve hated Math all your life. Because NEW MATH is different. It’s the kind of Math that everybody understands. NEW MATH’s format makes for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Humor, MY BAG OF TRICKS, MY VARIED INTERESTS, Raves, References, THOSE THINGS I DO
Tagged Craig Damrauer, funny, Humorous, mathematics, New Math
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An unfinished book
I’ve been reading “An Unfinished Life” by Robert Dallek for at least a month now. It remains an unfinished book assignment though as I am still in the early 20% of the book. It is a very interesting book to … Continue reading
A new language to learn
This DVD and booklet set was one of my “lucky finds” in the book fair my xGF and I visited at the SMX in SM Mall of Asia sometime last year. I recently just opened it on the insistence of … Continue reading
A heartbreaking book
What’s with me lately that I seem to be drawn into reading depressing books? Within days from finishing a very disturbing book, “Speak You Also,” I found myself flipping the pages of “The Muted Cry: stories of working children.” I … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacies, Books
Tagged International Labour Office, James Mante, Loree Cruz Mante, Speak You Also, The Muted Cry
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