This collection of short stories — vignettes, really — is an “unofficial history of the world observed — and mirrored to us — through the eyes and voices of history’s…
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The Golden Bough is “[a] world classic” with a lot of detail on spiritual traditions and ritual in early history. It “describes our ancestors’ primitive methods of worship, sex practices,…
This is a collection of “writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things.” It is about objects as “emotional and intellectual companions that anchor…
The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, written in the 11th century — and it just may be “the world’s first novel”! This unabridged edition is quite…
Caribbean culture meets sci-fi meets folklore meets thriller! This looks enormously fun — a unique story and a bewildering blend of influences; striking language and “lushly detailed worlds”, that add…
A while back I read Charlie Munger’s “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”, and found the material itself (talks by Munger) mostly good, though the style in which it was edited and presented…
I’ve read and loved Papert’s book Mindstorms, and I’ve owned and ogled Minsky’s Society of Mind for about a year without getting around to reading it. When I saw that…
This seems like one of those mildly obscure but delightfully random gems you might expect to alight upon in a used bookstore. (And in fact I may well have encountered…
Well, damn. There are no reviews, and no “look inside” option available, so I can’t rely on my standard lazy approach to book evaluation here! I do, however, have the…