Love me some nonfiction! #TLT #ThreeListThursday
Love me some nonfiction! #TLT #ThreeListThursday
The path to a calculator takes us from counting rods to abacuses to slide rules and through mechanical and electrical adding machines to get to the glory days of the late 20th century and the ubiquitous TI-81. Houston rides us into the sunset as well, detailing the calculators replacement by - and assimilation into - the computer and mobile device. A great read all the way through, and I will be looking for his works on Punctuation and The Book.
This is a book geared towards kids, but it‘s interesting reading for adults too! I certainly learned a lot about Indigenous peoples and how much they have contributed to the world through their inventions and creative thinking.
#bookspinbingo
#pop24 - nonfiction book about Indigenous people
Alright, it's November, so it looks like only half my #URC2023 is going to be queer romance. Meanwhile, I went back to my past unassigned reads and found 4 books that fit prompts - the one not included here is The Story of My Life by Helen Keller for a blind author.
I'll actually be reading Lady Susan a second time later this month for my read-along Twitch stream.
This book has an excellent beginning but gets really caught up in architecture and especially Frank Lloyd Wright, and does not go enough into the science and engineering of modern concrete use.
3/5 really good for the first half, not so great for the 2nd half. Read to learn a lot about prehistoric and Roman use of concrete (Really fascinating!) and to read a lot about Frank Lloyd Wright (meh for me).
So, this book is AMAZING, I learned so much & I loved that. The author‘s writing is irritating at times, he is obsessed with mustaches and doesn‘t explain things until far into the chapters.
This is a fascinating read, I learned so much about so many industries and found a canned food brand that I feel comfortable eating from.
4/5 read to learn about how corrosion affects most aspects of human life, how costly it is & technology for prevention
A great book about an outstanding individual.
#childrensbook #bbrc @librarianryan
Amazing. This biography on Edith Clarke introduces little ones to the first female electrical engineer. The text is simple, but what I love most about this is the extra content at the end - a fuller biography, timeline, glossary, other noted electrical engineers, bibliography, etc. The watercolor illustrations work very well with the text. One of the best #PictureBook bios I‘ve read so far for #BBRC ! #LetterB
I really wanted to like this book, but alas, I just couldn‘t finish it. The author‘s writing was rather dry, and went into a lot of tangential philosophical writings. I gave up to read more interesting books.