main topics I like: bugs, animals, farming, space
currently trying to finish: amulet seriess mountain of books on bugs / animals i have piled up
my library books keep getting overdue
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Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, …
have been reading it off and on for a while, the essays kinda travel around the internet
very good introduction for someone (me) who is kinda new to bird science
An overall really interesting book, I really like Temple Grandin's explanations and writing style. I'm thinking of reading her other books on animal thinking. Her explanations of what went wrong and right with two nuclear disasters and stories about engineering were really interesting to me, and the section on how humans and the rest of the animals are similar brain-wise is interesting too.
I agree with the other review that it does fall into the "billionare guys who are neurodiverse" trope which is annoying for so many different reasons I won't get into...also has Musk even engineered anything he owns? (Feel free to prove me wrong on this) This isn't probably the most sensitive book on neurodiversity and it is heavily American-centric, but her main point is that American education needs to value different types of thinking and hands-on learning more to improve its economy and infrastructure. (also that algebra …
An overall really interesting book, I really like Temple Grandin's explanations and writing style. I'm thinking of reading her other books on animal thinking. Her explanations of what went wrong and right with two nuclear disasters and stories about engineering were really interesting to me, and the section on how humans and the rest of the animals are similar brain-wise is interesting too.
I agree with the other review that it does fall into the "billionare guys who are neurodiverse" trope which is annoying for so many different reasons I won't get into...also has Musk even engineered anything he owns? (Feel free to prove me wrong on this) This isn't probably the most sensitive book on neurodiversity and it is heavily American-centric, but her main point is that American education needs to value different types of thinking and hands-on learning more to improve its economy and infrastructure. (also that algebra classes are an unnecessary barrier to graduation) But if you are interested in how ND people and visual thinkers are perceived in other countries, this isn't the best book for that.
Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the …
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drifting lazily thru the inky blackness of space.. the way space is described in this book is awesome I chuckled at the part where one of the golgafrinchan guys is yelling at ford and arthur how they want their tea. This is probably my favorite so far, there's just way too much I wish I could describe
Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is …
After a family disaster Emily, Navin, and their mom move to a new house for …
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that is a building
idk the art is cool (everything is drawn with detail, the backgrounds feel like they frame an actual location) and i want to fly a biplane with a cat in my coat I usually like reading manga in japanese more (especially for dialogue thats informal and dialects and just cus some translations can lose things) but the afterward in the dark horse manga ver. is interesting and talks about lots of historical background, and the english works well with the influences of all the cultures seen in the manga
i might buy both the english and japanese versions once i start my manga collection
George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard. …
George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and …
i read this when i was pretty young I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE FOUR SEQUELS...
really convincingly lays out how smaller concentrated farming has a lot of potential for the future, especially a post-oil future and how to structure food production(??). it has a lot of inspiration from parisian market gardening, and perspectives and quotes from a lot of agriculture scientists and different cultures, especially indigenous ones (the wayana people are mentioned a lot) I think this book has made me reconsider my entire life goals.. who was I before this book. I wanna be a farmer now
It's a story about some kids who are friends over the internet. They decide to …
so many cool concepts and characters , its more of an experience than anything. i like how multimedia it is but i wish somebody else took the concepts and ran with it (which is y i recommend mspfa/mspaint fanventures)
It's a story about some kids who are friends over the internet. They decide to play a game together. There …
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Susan …
