Archive for the 'clipbookgoodreadafterjan07' Category
A Bridge Too Far (book) – Wikipedia
March 12, 2017Illuminating the Genome’s Dark Matter – GersteinInfo
November 21, 2015My review of J Parrington’s Deeper Genome
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(15)01475-0 The book illuminates genomic dark matter & is a good read to boot!
Steve Jobs: Walter Isaacson, Dylan Baker: 9781442369054: Amazon.com: Books
March 1, 2015Some brief thoughts on @WalterIsaacson’s book on Steve Jobs. Great Biography of An Extreme Individual
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is a fantastic read, both engaging and revealing in many details. What emerges is a portrait of a genius — but also a quirky person with many contradictions. On one hand, the visionary who brought us the Mac, the iPhone, the iTunes Store and many other exceptional innovations but also the taskmaster who was incredibly demanding and difficult to interact with — someone who would get upset at the smallest details. Of particular interest to fans of Apple products: there are many tidbits on how particular features (and bugs) got included — from the oval on the MacIntosh dialogue boxes to the band circling the iPhone 4. There is also much revealing information on how the CEO of a huge public company concealed his cancer from so many people and about the intricate boardroom interplay deposing a leader and then his comeback. Altogether, a great read that I would recommend to anyone.
Note tags bundle:
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/jobs0mg
http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3HF9JGYIRU2CC/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1451648537
links to audio books that I’ve read
July 17, 2014Here’s a collection of my audio books. You can access them through the links below:
Sept. ’10 onwards
http://blog.gerstein.info/search/label/clipbookgoodreadafterjan07
Jan. ’12 onwards
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/category/clipbookgoodreadafterjan07
Jan. ’07 to Sept. ’11 (when Delicious was reorganized)
https://delicious.com/mbgmbg/clipBookGoodReadAfterJan07
to Jan. ’07
http://gerstein.info/streams/favorite-books.htm
As you can see, I, unfortunately, do not have them consolidated on a single page but you will be able to gather in the variety of links that I have been compiling various good to read nonfiction audio books over the past decade or so. Originally I listened to these on cassette tape and then ripped them onto CDs and now I am using Audible.com.
Finally, you will notice that with some of the more recent books I rated them using a star ranking system and posted my reviews on Amazon.
Fatherland (1994) – YouTube
August 5, 2013What if Normandy had failed ?
Thoughts on Gaines’ The Sky’s the Limit
July 29, 2013I found Steven Gaines’ book The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan quite interesting overall. I read it from the
perspective of someone wanting to learn some context behind the convoluted world of Manhattan real estate. In this regard some parts of the book are not that useful: principally those that in a gossipy sense focus on celebrities buying seven and eight figure properties and all the machinations to get past apartment co-op boards. On the other hand there is some genuinely useful factual information. It provides the history of a number of the structures in Manhattan, in particular the cooperative structure, which ironically started out as a socialist inspired movement for tenants who own their building but in modern times this turned into the ultimate exclusive club for the very rich. (There are some great quotes in the book about such excesses such as Bill Clinton’s remarking on the fantasy Upper East Side co-op, that it makes the White House almost look like public housing.) The book also gives a lot of background on some of the prominent buildings in Manhattan such as the Time Warner Center, the Ansonia Hotel and the Dakota. Finally it gives some perspective on the different neighborhoods, contrasting the large parcels available on Central Park West with the smaller and older developed real estate on the Upper East Side. Overall, a good read with a bit of useful facts to impart.
Thoughts on O’Shea’s The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
December 23, 2012Good discussion of lots of technical stuff, including regions of the brain, how nerves work, & artificial neural nets
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B002KE9BPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352690693&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Brain%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction+%28Unabridged%29
Gombrich’s A Little History of the World
November 12, 2012http://www.amazon.com/Little-History-World-H-Gombrich/dp/0300108834 A Little History of the World [Hardcover]
E. H. Gombrich (Author)
Not such a good one
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