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Robert Pickering rated A Brief History of Time: 4 stars
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking'sA Brief History of Time has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over …
Robert Pickering rated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: 4 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger which took place forty years ago.
Robert Pickering rated Blind Watchmaker: 4 stars
Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol. De eerstgenoemde als belichaming van het geloof in …
Robert Pickering rated Consider Phlebas: 4 stars
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced …
Robert Pickering rated The Frood: 4 stars
The Frood by Douglas Adams, Jem Roberts
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely …
Robert Pickering rated Brave New World: 3 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
Robert Pickering rated Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: 3 stars
Robert Pickering rated God is not great: 5 stars
God is not great by Christopher Hitchens
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
Robert Pickering rated Bad science: 5 stars
Bad science by Ben Goldacre
Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science.When Dr Ben …
Robert Pickering rated Galileo's Finger: 5 stars
Robert Pickering rated The selfish gene: 5 stars
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins
with a new Introduction by the Author
Robert Pickering rated The Diamond Age: 4 stars
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what …
Robert Pickering rated Look to windward: 3 stars
Look to windward by Iain M. Banks
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns …
Robert Pickering rated Bad pharma: 5 stars
Bad pharma by Ben Goldacre
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests …