Chip war by Chris Miller – The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology – is a fascinating book. It covers the topic of chips amazingly. It is a blend of history with technology viewed from a global perspective. It focuses on various people who…
Sex by Numbers by David Spiegelhalter – What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour – was a gift for Valentine’s Day. I read a book by David Spiegelhalter before, The Art of Statistics, and it was great. That was a bit more technical than…
How to Make a Vaccine by John Rhodes – An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond – is a short book and so well written, it really is a very good read and I highly recommend it. The author is an expert in vaccine development.…
Anatomy by Christopher Joseph – A Complete Guide to the Human Body, for Artists Students – is a book I bought from a museum gift shop. It is a good reference book mainly because it’s so data-heavy that is difficult to remember names and so…
The Vaccine by Joe Miller – Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic – with Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci – is a great book. I’ve enjoyed reading it, so well written, clear, and it flows nicely too. I highly recommend the book. Şahin…
Technology Is Not Neutral by Stephanie Hare – A Short Guide to Technology Ethics – was both very good and very bad. The first part, about 150 pages, was really good. It had great analysis and references, it covered all the world, including places I…
I bought Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green last year, but only recently I picked it from my bookshelves, mainly because I am doing research into vaccines and I kept pushing back reading it so it is more suitable for my studies. So, finally I…
Moonshot by Albert Bourla – Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible – is a great read, so interesting to learn about what happened in Pfizer when covid hit. It is very well written, a delight to read even if you are not…
Spike by Jeremy Farrar – The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story, written with Anjana Ahuja is a bit of a disappointment. It has facts and opinions I was interested in, but it also has a huge bias, not great for a respected…
Top 10 vaccine objections by Dr Lex Ram is a short and hilarious book. It is a narrative non-fiction, written in a lovely manner, it’s a delight to read. I didn’t intended to read the book. It was one I got at the British Library…
An Immense World by Ed Yong – How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us – is a book published earlier this year. I don’t remember how I learned about it, but it seemed interesting and I bought it. Well, it wasn’t as exciting…
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil – How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy is a book I bought for my husband but that I was very eager to read it too. He read it and enjoyed it. For me the message was…
The Inheritor’s Powder by Sandra Hempel – A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science is the second book I read by her, with the first being a biography of John Snow called The Medical Detective. I gave that book 4 stars and…
Zucked by Roger McNamee with the subtitle Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe is a book I wanted to read, which I reserved at the library from last year, but with all the delays due to COVID, I only got it recently. Well, this was…
Last month I read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, a book I would highly recommend. Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz is another one on the same topic, surveillance capitalism, and it’s even better for a couple of reasons: it’s three times…
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough is, in his words: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future. It is a lovely read and really interesting, a page turner. I imagine that everybody in UK know who David Attenborough is. He published…