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May round-up

On May 31, 2016September 2, 2016 By bookskepticIn Thoughts3 Comments

  May was a good month, spring has finally started so I had my first days spent in the park with a book. I'm slowly working my way through all the books I have, no longer on a book buying ban, but still managed to buy less than I read in a month, I'm very …

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Stuff Matters – Mark Miodownik

On May 25, 2016May 21, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews6 Comments

The full title of this book is one of the longest ones  I've seen (not counting academic books of course), so I had to cut it down a bit in the post title, here is the whole thing: Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World. I don't read many …

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