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date pub edition May 08, 2010
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date pub edition Jan 24, 2012
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avg rating 4.17
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date pub Jan 01, 2011
date pub edition 2011
Glenn's rating my rating review I have heard it said of another entrepreneur (the founder of Easyjet) 'He's a one-off... thank goodness'. Reading this biography makes one feel a...more I have heard it said of another entrepreneur (the founder of Easyjet) 'He's a one-off... thank goodness'. Reading this biography makes one feel a bit the same way about Jobs. This is his definitive biography. Walter Isaacson has interviewed everyone and done his job with thoroughness and integrity. It fills in a lot of the history that a lot of us have lived through. For my tastes, however, a little bit too plodding, a little bit lacking in humour. Nevertheless I found it a good, thorough biography of a man who, of all the computer pioneers, made technology beautiful. A very worthwhile read.(less)
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date pub Mar 01, 2011
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avg rating 3.71
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date pub Jan 01, 2007
date pub edition Feb 01, 2008
Glenn's rating my rating review Overwritten, touchy, sarcastic, repetitious, laced with ad hominen insults, original, compelling and right. This book -- about how unexpected events (...more Overwritten, touchy, sarcastic, repetitious, laced with ad hominen insults, original, compelling and right. This book -- about how unexpected events (Black Swans) make a mockery of forecasters -- has more than a passing resemblance to the Book of Jeremiah. To avoid bad black swans? Rather than trusting in a pension fund, buy a well-insulated house with a wood-burning stove and enough land to grow potatoes. Keep your money under a mattress. Remember the wisdom of those who survived the 1930s. To benefit from good Black Swans? Make small investments in very risky things that might come off. A quote, applied mostly to people who try to predict the behaviour of complex systems involving humans as if they were the benign and predictable systems known to physics: insanity is 'reasoning correctly from erroneous premises' (p 253). In Taleb's world, most of the experts who advise about money are insane.(less)
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isbn13 9780515089936
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192
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avg rating 4.24
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date pub 1974
date pub edition Sep 15, 1986
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isbn13 9780830737840
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256
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avg rating 4.17
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date pub 1974
date pub edition Aug 28, 2005
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isbn13 9780800626822
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avg rating 4.50
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date pub Sep 01, 1994
date pub edition Sep 01, 1994
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isbn13 9780340863688
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155
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avg rating 4.25
num ratings 827
date pub Jun 01, 1940
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isbn13 9780143039099
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256
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avg rating 3.88
num ratings 30,474
date pub Oct 01, 1908
date pub edition Aug 01, 2005
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isbn13 9780060653200
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avg rating 4.31
num ratings 2,693
date pub 1949
date pub edition Mar 13, 2001
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isbn13 9780340921579
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469
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avg rating 4.01
num ratings 9,527
date pub Jan 01, 2010
date pub edition 2010
Glenn's rating my rating review This novel deliciously takes you by the ankles and dips you headfirst into the fast-flowing stream of another time and place. In this case, it is ...more This novel deliciously takes you by the ankles and dips you headfirst into the fast-flowing stream of another time and place. In this case, it is the Dutch East India Company's factory in Dejima off the coast of Nagasaki, in the dark years after Japan had crucified or tortured to death the Christians baptised in the 17th century by Francis Xavier, and before the country was prised open to the outside world in the nineteenth by the American naval captain Perry. This is an occultic, honour-and-shame, totalitarian and feudal Japan. With this scenery and these props, David Mitchell smoothly takes his characters through a story of betrayal, power struggles, love and courage. It's such an exhilarating experience you overlook bits of contrived plotting or slightly underdone characters (particularly the female protagonist). A bit brutal and graphic at times, not really a romance, but a lavish feast of a book and I loved it.(less)
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isbn13 9780755315185
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avg rating 3.68
num ratings 92
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isbn13 9781591859932
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192
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avg rating 4.24
num ratings 1,022
date pub Jan 01, 1973
date pub edition Jul 18, 2006
Glenn's rating my rating review Extraordinary story that would stretch the credibility of many; except that as late as 2007,after 45 years, this genius of a missionary was still livi...more Extraordinary story that would stretch the credibility of many; except that as late as 2007,after 45 years, this genius of a missionary was still living among the tribe that adopted him, and their change and development is easy for all to see; so, presumably, are the records of him speaking on their behalf at the United Nations. The Motilone/Bari people were the sort who are bulldozed into oblivion or alcoholism: small (2,500 people) and Amazonian. Olson brought the gospel to the people in a way that strengthened, rather than diminished, their local culture, and they thrived and survived the transition into the modern world. Many of their people have become university graduates (and have then gone back to the jungle). Their numbers have grown. Send anthropologists urgently!(less)
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avg rating 4.26
num ratings 2,207
date pub 1964
date pub edition Oct 01, 2001
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avg rating 3.59
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date pub Apr 27, 1995
date pub edition 1995
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isbn13 9780312311339
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avg rating 3.76
num ratings 1,514
date pub 1999
date pub edition Mar 03, 2003
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isbn13 9780575077027
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avg rating 3.86
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date pub Jan 01, 1970
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avg rating 3.93
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date pub Dec 1951
date pub edition Dec 18, 2007
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isbn13 9781857231380
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avg rating 3.78
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date pub 1987
date pub edition Apr 14, 1988
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avg rating 4.32
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date pub Dec 28, 1986
date pub edition Aug 31, 2006
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isbn13 9780385502757
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avg rating 4.13
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date pub Jan 01, 2001
date pub edition Oct 21, 2003
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date pub 1957
date pub edition Oct 14, 1981
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avg rating 3.92
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date pub Feb 05, 2004
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avg rating 4.08
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date pub Jan 01, 1973
date pub edition Sep 27, 1989
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isbn13 9780385480017
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avg rating 4.16
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date pub May 05, 1994
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isbn13 9780825462078
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avg rating 4.34
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date pub Dec 23, 2002
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isbn13 9780451452016
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avg rating 3.98
num ratings 3,080
date pub 1989
date pub edition Sep 01, 1992
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isbn13 9780007157150
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avg rating 3.84
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date pub 1938
date pub edition Nov 01, 2005
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