Category Books

The Geek Atlas on Google Maps

The Geek Atlas – 128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming is by far my favourite non-fiction book to be published last year. As the title suggests, it’s full of geeky places to visit and it offers great insight into the science behind different concepts. This is a prime example of [...]

Price of Bits

End of last week Amazon pulled all of Macmillans books off their website and the Kindle store to try and bully the book publisher to let them sell ebooks at a lower price of $9.99. Moments later, they caved and all the books were back, some with higher prices. Macmillan’s argument was that they should [...]

New Page – The Reading List

About a year ago, I started reading books. Or not really reading as I listen to them, which is why I started. I can’t concentrate on reading a book. If I have the luxury to sit still for more than a minute there are more important things to do than read. I mostly choose factual [...]

Ramak Tavakoli: Nothing & The Other

A new book out by Ramak Tavakoli. Available here, here and here. Also in well stocked bookstores near you. Photography by yours truly. kristian