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Rich Campoamor rated Everything Is Miscellaneous: 5 stars
Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical …
Rich Campoamor rated Made to stick: 5 stars
Made to stick by Dan Heath, Chip Heath
Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots …
Rich Campoamor rated The Art of Travel: 4 stars
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and …
Rich Campoamor rated The Architecture of Happiness: 4 stars
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the …
Rich Campoamor rated The new Spaniards: 2 stars
The new Spaniards by Hooper, John (Penguin politics and current affairs)
Rich Campoamor rated An Unexpected Light: 4 stars
Rich Campoamor rated Not one more death: 5 stars
Rich Campoamor rated Pilgrim: 4 stars
Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
"Il serait peut-être exagéré d'affirmer que Timothy Findley nous tient en haleine durant la totalité de ce gros roman. Mais …
Rich Campoamor reviewed The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they …
Review of 'The World Is Flat' on 'LibraryThing'
2 stars
Rich Campoamor rated Beginning XML: 4 stars
Rich Campoamor rated Explorer's guide to the Semantic Web: 4 stars
Explorer's guide to the Semantic Web by Thomas B. Passin
An introduction to the Semantic Web and related knowledge modeling technologies, including RDF, Topic Maps, Ontologies, agents, and semantically-focused search.
Rich Campoamor reviewed How soccer explains the world by Franklin Foer
Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is …
Review of 'How soccer explains the world' on 'LibraryThing'
4 stars
Really more about soccer than globalization. Nonetheless, provides a good feel for how soccer is regarded around the world and what an outlet it is for political, religious and general tensions.
Rich Campoamor rated An instance of the fingerpost: 5 stars
An instance of the fingerpost by Iain Pears
This book is set in the 1660's, and tells the story of Sarah Blundy who is accused of murder. The …
Rich Campoamor reviewed Shaping things by Bruce Sterling
