Un antropólogo analiza los preceptos de la economía mediante el estudio de comportamientos y culturas reales, destruyendo el mito del trueque y mostrándonos una historia compleja y sumamente interesante de los fenómenos económicos y sus a veces terribles consecuencias.
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I read because it makes me feel better. It is magical, reading lets you visit other realities and learn about new ideas.
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Nicolay Giraldo rated Watership Down: 5 stars
Watership Down by Richard Adams
A worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set …
Nicolay Giraldo rated Fluent Forever: 5 stars
Nicolay Giraldo rated Vestido de novia: 4 stars
Nicolay Giraldo reviewed Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
Review of 'Debt' on 'GoodReads'
4 stars
Nicolay Giraldo reviewed The hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson
"The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet …
Review of 'The hunt for Vulcan' on 'GoodReads'
5 stars
Feels like an episode of Cosmos narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nicolay Giraldo rated Sapiens: 5 stars
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of "Guns, Germs, and Steel," "Sapiens" is a lively, groundbreaking history …
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to …
Review of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid' on 'GoodReads'
The first part is hard theoretical mathematics, number theory and its relation with programming languages.
The second part is far easier to read, because it is about computer programs, and artificial intelligence. It is quite fun reading some now outdated concepts in AI, only very recently outdated thanks to DeepMind's Convolutional Neural Networks and its use in AlphaGo to beat the best humans players in the world.
Before every chapter there's a dialog with fantastic characters, with meta-commentary about the chapter.
All in all, it is not as impossible to finish as I expected =)
Nicolay Giraldo reviewed Seed to Harvest by Octavia E. Butler
Review of 'Seed to Harvest' on 'GoodReads'
5 stars
The first part: Wild Seed, is among the best histories I have ever read. It is a mythical struggle between two powerful beings. But it is also a believable relationship between man and woman.
It then changes in tone and in style, and while the other parts are not as good as the prequel, they are each good in their own ways.
Nicolay Giraldo rated Starting Strength: 5 stars
Nicolay Giraldo rated The Dragon Reborn: 5 stars
The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #3)
The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior …
Nicolay Giraldo rated The Great Hunt: 5 stars
The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #2)
Nicolay Giraldo rated The pilgrimage: 2 stars
Nicolay Giraldo rated Fahrenheit 451: 4 stars
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which …
Nicolay Giraldo rated Catch-22: 4 stars
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …