Books
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Richard Feynman. A Life in Science, John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin (ISBN 978-1-78578-372-2, Iconbooks)
During my physics studies at university I became a fan of Feynman. His path integral formulation of quantum mechanics was a revelation after years of plodding through the standard formalisms by Heisenberg and Schrödinger and the mists surrounding the question what it all meant physically. Especially the fact that this approach was also applicable to…
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Exercised. Why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding, Daniel E. Lieberman (ISBN 978-0-525-43478-8, Vintage Books)
I heard about this book in a podcast about running. 2 journalists discussed their own running habits and struggles and one of them mentioned this book as a good one to read. I definitely found it interesting as it gives insights from an evolutionary perspective to why so many people struggle to exercise even though…
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Nickel and Dimed. On (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich (ISBN 9780805063899, Henry Holt & Company)
I finally read this book last week after it had been sitting on a shelf for a decade. Ehrenreich is a journalist who got asked by a publisher to write a piece about the living conditions of low wage workers in America. She decided to find out by getting such a job herself and mimic…
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Hoe boeken onze levensverhalen vormen
‘Het verband tussen alle aangeschafte boeken vormt onze autobiografie.‘― Stefan Hertmans
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Einstein’s Wife. The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Allen Chesterton & David Cassidy (ISBN 9780262538978, MIT Press)
I read about this book in the paper when it came out in 2020 but didn’t buy it immediately. Then, not so long ago I decided to buy and read the Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson and I also got this book about Mileva Maric which I read first. Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife was…
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The Destinies of Books
‘Books have destinies as objects, and people appointments with them.‘― Gotham Book Mart
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Book Publishing: Balancing Care and Profit
‘A caring for books preeminent to a purely business concern, is anything but an anti-business point of view. Instead, it is good business and only establishes that the time table for book publishing success may often be different from the time table of other industries viewed statistically.‘― Peter Mayer
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Amazon Book Selling and the Ethics of Wealth Accumulation
‘Modern mass merchants like Amazon have fallen sway to perhaps the most insolently futile idea that ever beguiled men through their vices: that wealth can be gained irrespectively of the consideration of its moral sources. ‘― John Ruskin
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The Endless Passion for Books
‘I am haunted by an inexhaustible passion that up to now I have not managed or wanted to quench. I feel that I have never enough books. Books delight one in depth, run through our veins, advise us and bind us in a kind of active and keen familiarity; and an individual book does not…
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