Book Reviews Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/category/book-reviews/ Astronomy author and speaker Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:32:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png Book Reviews Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/category/book-reviews/ 32 32 166732936 Book Review – Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything https://www.colinstuart.net/book-review-moonwalking-einstein-art-science-remembering-everything/ Tue, 02 May 2017 12:39:59 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=2443 Author: Joshua Foer Rating: [usr=3.5]         The fact that I was bought this book by a family member for my birthday probably owes as much to the title as it does to its content. Nevertheless, it was a fascinating insight into the lost world of memory.Joshua Foer was a science writer trying […]

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]]> 2443 Book review – Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics https://www.colinstuart.net/book-review-prisoners-of-geography-ten-maps-that-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-global-politics/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:04:17 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=2426 Author: Tim Marshall Rating: [usr=4] Daytime TV is a natural consequence of the self-employed.  Quite often when I am working on something I have the news channels on in the background, keeping track of what is going on in the world. Whenever I watched Sky News, I was always impressed with their diplomatic editor/foreign affairs […]

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]]> 2426 Review: The Edge of The Sky by Roberto Trotta https://www.colinstuart.net/review-the-edge-of-the-sky-by-roberto-trotta/ https://www.colinstuart.net/review-the-edge-of-the-sky-by-roberto-trotta/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:44:23 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1797 As a science writer I am very fortunate that English is such a beautiful language with a wide and varied vocabulary. It allows me to describe the fascinating – and often complex – world of modern astronomy. But in an intriguing thought experiment, astrophysicist Roberto Trotta’s book The Edge of The Sky sets out to […]

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