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jfairbairn rated Letter to a young farmer: 4 stars
Gene Logsdon: Letter to a young farmer (2017)
Letter to a young farmer by Gene Logsdon
"In his final book of essays--completed just weeks before he died--self-described 'contrary farmer' Gene Logsdon addresses the next generation of …
jfairbairn rated Smiley's People: 5 stars
Smiley's People by John le Carré
Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is …
jfairbairn rated 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 3 stars
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative …
jfairbairn rated Inspired: 4 stars
Inspired by Marty Cagan
Why do some products make the leap to greatness while others don’t?
Creating inspiring products begins with discovering a product …
jfairbairn rated A Sand County Almanac: 5 stars
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor …
jfairbairn rated Hyperobjects: 5 stars
jfairbairn rated Team Human: 4 stars
jfairbairn rated Zen Camera: 5 stars
jfairbairn rated Wilding: 5 stars
Isabella Tree: Wilding (2018, Picador)
Wilding by Isabella Tree (No)
This a blow by blow and month by month account of how a well-managed, but totally unprofitable estate farm in …
jfairbairn rated The Spell of the Sensuous: 5 stars
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
[In this book, the author] draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and …
jfairbairn rated Neither wolf nor dog: 5 stars
jfairbairn rated The practice of contemplative photography: 5 stars
jfairbairn rated Dark Matter: 4 stars
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is …
