Book Reviews January 2012

The prodigal tongue Mark Abley Heinemann, 2008 ISBN: 0434013900 English is becoming more and more global, but does this mean that it will drift away from what its current speakers would recognise? Will the way language is used on the Internet have more of an effect? In The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches From The Future of English Mark Abley looks at such issues. Continued..

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From eternity to here Sean M Carroll Oneworld, 2010 ISBN: 1851687955 Time has always been thought of as something of a mystery, especially when looking at the role of time and the development of the universe. In From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time Sean M Carroll examines some of the problems related to time and the universe and discusses their possible resolutions. Continued..

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Never in a million years Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker Orion Books, 2011 ISBN: 1409140229 Many people have speculated about what the future will be like. The trouble is that the future eventually gets here. In Never in a million years: a history of hopeless predictions from the beginning to the end of the world Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker look at some predictions which haven't been bourne out by reality. Continued..

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This is not the end of the book Umberto Eco ,Jean-Claude Carriere and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac Harvill Secker, 2011 ISBN: 9781846554513 In This is not the end of the book Jean-Philippe de Tonnac moderates a discussion between Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere about the history and future of books. Continued..

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Reinventing knowledge Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton Pari Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 0393065065 Reinventing knowledge: from Alexandria to the Internet by Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton looks at the various methods societies have used to preserve knowledge, from the ancient Greeks to the present. Continued..

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Digimodernism Alan Kirby Continuum, 2009 ISBN: 1441175288 I've always been wary of anything to do with Postmodernism, but when I saw Alan Kirby's book Digimodernism: how new technologies dismantle the postmodern and reconfigure our culture I thought it might be worth reading. Continued..

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Physics of the future Michio Kaku Allen Lane, 2011 ISBN: 1846142687 In Physics of the future: how science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100 Michio Kaku uses the information from interviews with experts in many fields to predict how our lives are going to change in the next century. Continued..

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The Planet in a Pebble Jan Zalasiewicz Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780199569700 A pebble might seem the most ordinary sort of object, but in The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History Jan Zalasiewicz shows how the formation of a single pebble is a story going back billions of years. Continued..

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