“MEKONG DELTA BLUESMAN” Son Vo tells the story of his life both offstage and on. From an early childhood in Saigon to a hardscrabble life in Maine to discovering his gift for music, Vo relates some wild adventures in a voice full of warmth and hope. B PLUS
Activestills Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel by Vered Maimon & Shiraz Grinbaum, 2016
This book is a joint contemplation about the body of
work produced by the Activestills photography collective
from its inception in 2005 up to 2016.
It includes the perspectives of activists, journalists,
historians and theoreticians of photography, and the
collective’s members themselves.
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t by Tom Phillips, 2019
As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the hilarious story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?
"In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window."
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman, 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that it dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think.
A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Bernard E. Rollin, 2016
“Possibly the most important book on animal welfare written to date. In exquisite chapter after chapter Rollin presents the philosophical background of what telos is, why it matters and demonstrates with stories, anecdotes, and data, why common sense is an important basis for understanding animals, their needs and their wants."
Hacked: The Secrets Behind Cyber Attacks by Jessica Barker, 2024
In this book, cybersecurity expert Jessica Barker uncovers how hackers are weaponizing cutting-edge tactics and technologies to target individuals and organizations, before showing how you can safeguard yourself against any potential attacks and how to react if you do become a target.
A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man 2ed by Raoul Vaneigem, 2019
Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Raoul Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-seven rights yet to be won in a world where the “freedoms accorded to Man” are no longer merely “the freedoms accorded by man to the economy.”
ADRIFT IN A NEARLY DESERTED VENICE in the early months of the 2020 pandemic, a writer contemplates his native Nigeria, his life in Detroit, his love of travel, but most of all his complicated family. Beautifully crafted prose, distinctive story. B PLUS
Intelligent Safety: How to Protect Your Connected Family from Big Cybercrime by Hari Ravichandran, 2023
This book teaches how we can put our families' online safety on autopilot and regain our peace of mind. It provides families with the tools and knowledge they need to create a personalized, proactive defense against cybercriminals.
Space Technology: A Short Introduction by Ignacio Chechile, 2023
This engaging and accessible book is designed as a quick and easy way to get up to speed on all things in space technology. It also offers extensive references and links that allow readers to delve deeper into the subject.
Love, Money, Sex and Death in the 21st Century by Louis Shalako
A mind-blowing series of essays concerning ten ethical and moral dilemmas facing modern science as well as the rest of humanity. The 21st Century is sure going to be interesting.
Cybercrime in Social Media: Theory and Solutions by Pradeep Kumar Roy; Asis Kumar Tripathy, 2023
Features:
• Detailed discussion on social-
cyber issues, including hate speech, cyberbullying,
• Discusses usefulness of social platforms
• Includes framework to address the social issues with their
implementations
• Covers fake news and rumor detection models
• Describes analysis of social posts with advanced learning techniques
"At the Chelsea production offices, an elevator door opened and there was Bing, magisterial in every respect: a lean, muscular hundred and forty-five pounds and, by the prop department’s tape measure, forty-two inches tall from his forepaws to the top of his skull." —Nick Paumgarten for The New Yorker
"What has unfolded this year around Snows Court is an old-fashioned neighborhood melodrama — 'Kittygate,' if you must — complete with wounded feelings, rampant gossip, sidewalk spies, lawsuit threats and tricky questions . . ." —Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post.
∙ Warrior-culture capitalism (The Baffler)
∙ The joy of scientific discovery (Nautilus)
∙ Booking a table—for a price (The New Yorker)
∙ Houses in Sicily for one euro (AFAR)
∙ An oral history of Go, 25 years later (GQ)
James Nestor's stories may be a bit hyperbolic, but the fundamental points he drives in his #nonfiction#book, #Breath, are nonetheless eye-opening (and nose-opening).
Charming and poetic biography about Else Bostelmann, an artist who painted underwater wonders in the 1930s. Pioneering woman artist, she combined art and science, helping in expeditions for the NY Zoological Society’s Department of Tropical Research.
The #TBR tin has spoken.
Next read for fiction:
Great tales of detection has 19 short stories selected and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers. This collection was originally published in 1936, but it's still easy to find this more "recent" edition from Everyman.
Sayers edited several short stories collections and besides the interesting stories, she also wrote insightful introductions about the history and development of the genre.
I'll be using an Oxford related bookmark.
Next read for non-fiction:
Howdunit is a collection of essays about the genre and the work of detective, crime, thrillers authors. The articles are all from the past and present members of The Detection Club, organised and edited by Martin Edwards.
Bookmark from the Portuguese edition of The Floating Admiral, also a The Detection Club work.
Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe by Martin J. Dougherty, 2024
Before the Vikings, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Roman Empire, the Celts dominated central and western Europe. Today we might think of the Celts only inhabiting parts of the far west of Europe – Ireland, Great Britain, France and Spain – but these were the extremities in which their culture lasted longest.