Another list for your reading and collection development perusal, this time from Publisher's Weekly:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- About a Mountain by John D'Agata
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak
- Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error by Kathryn Schulz
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
- Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments here.
Earlier entries in this year's list or lists can be found here.
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Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is the Holiday Reading list from the Toronto Star Public Policy Forum, picked from individual lists in today's print newspaper.
I wasn't really sure of quite how to start this off. I finally decided to just dive right in with a simple function definition, and then give you a bit of a tour of how Haskell works by showing the different ways of implementing it.
Along with tacky an inescapable Christmas music, December brings lists, as every publication that deals with music at all puts out their own compilation of songs or albums of the year.
Humans readily establish false memories. If you give adults a study list of words like hot, snow, warm, winter, ice, wet, chilly, weather, heat, freeze, shiver, frost, and then test them later, they will "remember" related words like cold that weren't actually on the list.
My book is about:
How today's Earth was formed from 'Tectonic' movement and follows with how birds began to fly, what is migration of birds, contraditing the 'Out of Africa' theory with how man got to Australia from Africa and includes the evolution of penguins,whales, river penguins, etc.
It sounds fantacy but it is all factual scientific deduction.