===================== Dave's book reviews ===================== :author: Dave Kuhlman :contact: dkuhlman (at) davekuhlman (dot) org :address: http://www.davekuhlman.org :revision: 1.4.1 :date: |date| .. |date| date:: %B %d, %Y :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013 Dave Kuhlman. All Rights Reserved. This software is subject to the provisions of the MIT License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. :Abstract: This is a collection of book reviews that I've written. .. sectnum:: :depth: 1 .. contents:: :depth: 1 .. include:: aaronovitch_voodoo_histories.txt .. include:: anderson_lawrence_in_arabia.txt .. include:: arthur_nature_of_technology.txt .. include:: avent_wealth_of_humans.txt .. include:: bacevich_breach_of_trust.txt .. include:: bageant_deer_hunting.txt .. include:: baker_plunder_and_blunder.txt .. include:: ball_the_metaverse.txt .. include:: beckert_empire_of_cotton.txt .. include:: bishop_big_sort.txt .. include:: blight_race_and_reunion.txt .. include:: breyer_court_and_world.txt .. include:: brill_tailspin.txt .. include:: brynjolfsson_second_machine_age.txt .. include:: burns_goddess_of_the_market.txt .. include:: carr_glass_cage.txt .. include:: carr_the_shallows.txt .. include:: chait_big_con.txt .. include:: chancellor_devil_take_the_hindmost.txt .. include:: chandra_geek_sublime.txt .. include:: childs_apocalyptic_planet.txt .. include:: clissold_mr_china.txt .. include:: cochran_10000_year_explosion.txt .. include:: conklin_atlas_of_disappearing_places.txt .. include:: conniff_species_seekers.txt .. include:: cowen_average_is_over.txt .. include:: crawford_captive_audience.txt .. include:: cunningham_decoding_lang_god.txt .. include:: davies_nervous_states.txt .. include:: delong_slouching_towards_utopia.txt .. include:: demick_nothing_to_envy.txt .. include:: dickey_our_man_in_charleston.txt .. include:: dolnick_forgers_spell.txt .. include:: easterbrook_better_than_looks.txt .. include:: edgerton_shock_of_old.txt .. include:: edsel_monuments_men.txt .. include:: eisenstein_printing_revolution.txt .. include:: fagan_attacking_ocean.txt .. include:: fagan_little_ice_age.txt .. include:: finlay_color.txt .. include:: florida_new_urban_crisis.txt .. include:: ford_rise_of_robots.txt .. include:: frances_twilight_of_american_sanity.txt .. include:: frazier_cursing_mommy.txt .. include:: french_state_of_paranoia.txt .. include:: fukuyama_origins_political_order.txt .. include:: fukuyama_political_order_decay.txt .. include:: fukuyama_identity.txt .. include:: goldman_science_20th_century.txt .. include:: goodwin_team_of_rivals.txt .. include:: graeber_debt.txt .. include:: green_build_better_teacher.txt .. include:: greenberg_book_of_woe.txt .. include:: gruber_forgery_of_venus.txt .. include:: hayden_assault_on_intelligence.txt .. include:: haden_true_colors.txt .. include:: halper_america_alone.txt .. include:: harris_kids_these_days.txt .. include:: hepola_blackout.txt .. include:: holzer_lincoln_press.txt .. include:: horgan_end_of_science.txt .. include:: horwitz_loss_of_sadness.txt .. include:: howe_turkey_today.txt .. include:: jacoby_age_american_unreason.txt .. include:: jacoby_never_say_die.txt .. include:: johnsonkwak_white_house_burning.txt .. include:: johnston_free_lunch.txt .. include:: kahneman_thinking_fast_slow.txt .. include:: katz_our_lot.txt .. include:: kay_among_the_truthers.txt .. include:: kay_culture_and_prosperity.txt .. include:: kipnis_unwanted_advances.txt .. include:: klein_why_we_are_polarized.txt .. include:: koch_consciousness.txt .. include:: kovach_blur.txt .. include:: lanchester_iou.txt .. include:: levine_fall_of_house_dixie.txt .. include:: lewis_big_short.txt .. include:: lewis_flash_boys.txt .. include:: lieberman_shrinks.txt .. include:: linden_compass_of_pleasure.txt .. include:: magoon_poverty_progress_prosperity.txt .. include:: mango_turks_today.txt .. include:: mann_1491.txt .. include:: manning_credit_card_nation.txt .. include:: martin_money_biography.txt .. include:: mathews_calif_crack_up.txt .. include:: mcafee_machine_platform_crowd.txt .. include:: mclean_all_the_devils.txt .. include:: metzl_dying_of_whiteness.txt .. include:: milbank_tears_of_a_clown.txt .. include:: minter_secondhand.txt .. include:: mooney_republican_brain.txt .. include:: moretti_new_geo_jobs.txt .. include:: morozov_net_delusion.txt .. include:: morris_why_the_west_rules.txt .. include:: movie_her.txt .. include:: nichols_death_of_expertise.txt .. include:: oreskes_collapse_of_western_civ.txt .. include:: orourke_wealth_of_nations.txt .. include:: pagden_worlds_at_war.txt .. include:: peters_seeds_of_terror.txt .. include:: piketty_Capital_21st_century.txt .. include:: pinker_blank_slate.txt .. include:: pipes_militant_islam_reaches_america.txt .. include:: pope_turkey_unveiled.txt .. include:: prins_takes_a_pillage.txt .. include:: quammen_spillover.txt .. include:: quinones_dreamland.txt .. include:: rajan_fault_lines.txt .. include:: reding_methland.txt .. include:: reich_aftershock.txt .. include:: ridley_evolution_of_everything.txt .. include:: ridley_rational_optimist.txt .. include:: ripely_smartest_kids.txt .. include:: ritholtz_bailout_nation.txt .. include:: roach_fuzz.txt .. include:: roberts_impulse_society.txt .. include:: rosling_factfulness.txt .. include:: roubini_crisis_economics.txt .. include:: ruthven_fundamentalism.txt .. include:: sales_american_girls.txt .. include:: sanger_perfect_weapon.txt .. include:: schmidt_cohen_new_digital_age.txt .. include:: shiller_finance_good_society.txt .. include:: silver_signal_and_noise.txt .. include:: skocpol_tea_party.txt .. include:: smith_nature_noir.txt .. include:: smith_who_stole.txt .. include:: sokal_fashionable_nonsense.txt .. include:: sterba_nature_wars.txt .. include:: stewart_good_news_club.txt .. include:: taibbi_great_derangement.txt .. include:: taibbi_griftopia.txt .. include:: taleb_antifragile.txt .. include:: taplin_move_fast.txt .. include:: thompson_new_mind_of_south.txt .. include:: twenge_igen.txt .. include:: vogel_big_money.txt .. include:: vogelstein_dogfight.txt .. include:: vreeland_clara_mrtiffany.txt .. include:: watts_messing_with_enemy.txt .. include:: wilkinson_pickett_spirit_level.txt .. include:: whitaker_museum_legs.txt .. include:: white_americas_fiscal_const.txt .. include:: whybrow_american_mania.txt .. include:: wolf_the_xx_factor.txt .. include:: woolley_realitygame.txt .. include:: wu_master_switch.txt .. include:: zuk_paleofantasies.txt Sources ========= The (plain) text source for each of the above reviews is available in the following archive: http://www.davekuhlman.org/reviews-source.zip. .. vim: set ft=rst: