books

May 7, 2009

Longitude

Longitude is a brief book that explains with very easy words why knowing on which longitude were you located was such a technological feat on the XV century and the historical events that came to the solution using very precise and reliable clocks aboard the ships. In the age of …Read the Rest

White tiger
May 6, 2009

White tiger

My brain sometimes is in Eurocentric mode and that makes Ann crazy. When we where traveling in India she  gave …Read the Rest

December 10, 2008

The PoisoonWood Bible: An overview of modern Africa history from the point of view of Barbara Kingsolver

This book is the history of a missionary family, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of …Read the Rest

Rollback, Robert Sawyer
May 15, 2008

Rollback, Robert Sawyer

Before Rollback, I had only read one book of Sawyer before, titled ‘The terminal experiment’. I remember that read it …Read the Rest