My mind races with all my longings.
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Felix Mordaunt, der gerade erst aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde, fährt am Haus seiner Kindheit vor. Doch weder das schicke …
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …
Cory Doctorow provides a great overview of the problems with Big Tech and some possible solutions for going forward. The book is not exhaustive but provides gets you started and encourages you to dive deeper in the areas you’re interested in.
I've bought this a while ago from my companies professional development budget and it was rather disappointing, there are some useful architecture concepts in this book, but I don't think they are very well explained and instead the book is filled with anecdotes about computer systems that were obsolete before I was even born.
This book reminded me of how I started to learn programming when I was a teenager. Get a book, type every piece of code into a text editor, check if it works, continue. I have messed around in existing Python code for years, but I have never actually tried to sit down and learn the language and these old ways still work surprisingly well, even if you are seasoned programmer.
On a quest to explain how and why his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, a writer embarks on an …
With characteristic wit and candor, Neil Postman, our most astute and engaging cultural critic, launches a trenchant--and harrowing--warning against the …
Das Symbol der EU ist der Sternenkreis. Lange stand er im Rahmen der offiziellen Rhetorik …
Aleida Assmann talks in this book about 4 learnings from European history and provides in the second half of the book two examples for each learning. The learnings are securing peace, creation of democracies, the German culture of remembering and the rediscovery of human rights.
Das Symbol der EU ist der Sternenkreis. Lange stand er im Rahmen der offiziellen Rhetorik der EU als Symbol für …
The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on …
The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was …
In the near future corporations need to buy extinction credits when they accidentally or on purpose drive a species to extinction. Intelligent species cost 13 times as much as non-intelligent ones. Resaint evaluates if a species is intelligent and hires by a mining company. Things go wrong and suddenly Resaint and the executive from the mining company are hunting through the Baltic to find the last remaining venomous lumpsuckers.
Ned Beauman crafted a story with some really creative elements and some twists on reality. At times the book is super depressing because certain elements could happen in the real world as well.
A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing …
In The Unconsoled we follow the pianist Ryder who arrives in a town completely unprepared and without any knowledge of the itinerary and follow him as he is dragged through the story and as he tries to not disappoint the towns citizens which expect him to solve the towns grave problems. Whatever they may be. Not a single scene is played out fully, together with Ryder we are dragged to the next scene and we are left in the dark.
This sounds bad but The Unconsoled is wonderfully written and shines with a dry humor.
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship …
Parts of the book were very funny and well written, but I was annoyed that the narrator whining all the time while also failing upward.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …
