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Book Review: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
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Book Review: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Man of la BookFebruary 13, 2025

I am a firm believer in what Revenge of the Tipping Point is attempting to show, how little things can make a huge difference, purposefully or not

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Book Review: Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
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Book Review: Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

Man of la BookNovember 14, 2024

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age is actually two books in one. Many parts of this book are worth rereading and internalizing

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Book Review: Coders by Clive Thompson
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Book Review: Coders by Clive Thompson

Man of la BookJune 4, 2024

I did enjoy the book though, I didn’t learn as much. Tech culture is fascinating from the inside and even more fascinating reading an outsider’s view of it

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Book Review: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Book Review: American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Man of la BookMarch 19, 2024

The author looks at different aspects of society, and the people living in it, ruminates on them, and then reexamines his findings to shed a new light on them

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Book Review: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
4 Stars Latest Posts Non-Fiction

Book Review: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

Man of la BookMay 16, 2019

A non-fiction book for the information age, talking about how people send information (and misinformation) from tum-tums in Africa, to Ada Lovelace-Alan turning

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Book Review: None of the Above by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton
4 Stars Biographies & Memoirs Latest Posts Non-Fiction

Book Review: None of the Above by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton

Man of la BookMarch 12, 2019

Mrs. Robinson was charged to allegedly changed the grades to conform with standardized testing, & circumstances caused public schools to be considered failures

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Book Review: This Book Is Overdue by Marilyn Johnson
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Book Review: This Book Is Overdue by Marilyn Johnson

Man of la BookFebruary 2, 2011

I loved what This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All was trying to do – make librarians relevant at the age of Google

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