Cooked by Michael Pollan
Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores …
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Andy rated The Book of Why: 2 stars
The Book of Why by Dana Mackenzie, Judea Pearl
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
“Correlation …
Andy rated How to Change Your Mind: 4 stars
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence …
Andy rated The Order of Time: 5 stars
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
Time tends to be considered uniform and universal, but it may be much more complicated than that. In fact, the …
Andy rated Just My Type: 3 stars
Just My Type by Simon Garfield
A quick and personal tour through the past and present of fonts, their design, and use.
Andy rated The Mechanical: 4 stars
The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis (The Alchemy Wars, #1)
The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its …
Andy rated Utopia for Realists: 4 stars
Utopia for Realists by Rudger Bregman
From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – …
Andy rated Life on the Edge: 4 stars
Life on the Edge by Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of …
Andy rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 4 stars
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …
Andy rated Happy City: 5 stars
Happy City by Charles Montgomery
More of us than ever are moving to inner cities, mixed-use suburbs, and densely constructed towns. Our surroundings have certainly …
Andy rated The Glass Hotel: 4 stars
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New …
Anseo by Úna-Minh Kavanagh
A contemporary and gorgeous memoir of adoption from Vietnam to Kerry, the love of her small family and the power …
Andy rated Cloud Atlas: 5 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, David Mitchell
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; an ambitious …