As usual, the holiday brought a hefty hoard of books to add to my not-inconsiderable collection of non-academic books. Because the movers didn’t complain quite enough about our 50 boxes of books when we moved from Montreal to Windsor in 2008, that’s why! So here’s what Santa and his minions brought me:
- Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- Keith Devlin, The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution
- Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch)
- John Glassie, A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change
- Alexandra Horowitz, On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation
- Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
- Michael Benson, Cosmigraphics
- Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers
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