#toread book #review of Thomas Urquhart’s partial translation of Rabelais
on 02026-08-31book Tove K.’s #review of Ettore Biocca’s Yanoama - The Story of Helena #Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians, 1996. “Anthropology has been bad at capturing the living conditions of women. A kidnapped woman who returned to civilization was the exception.” #Yanomamo
“One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the one and only book in English about her, I’m convinced of that. Her insights into a primitive society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those societies. She didn’t only study stone age life. She lived it. For two decades, she lived among the Yanomamö horticulturalists of the Amazonas, after having been kidnapped at the age of 11, in 1937.”
on 02026-05-29Martin Fowler’s #review of Fred Brooks’s book “The Mythical Man-Month”.
on 02026-05-10#review of Kenneth Roth’s book about his career at #Human-Rights Watch.
on 02026-04-07a #review of #qntm’s #fiction book “There Is No Antimemetics Division”
on 02026-04-06#gvwilson’s #review of #Appel’s #compilers book: “this is one of the first compiler texts I have seen that presents, at an undergraduate level, developments from the mid-1980s onward. There are chapters on lexing, parsing, and abstract syntax, but there are also chapters on basic blocks and traces, instruction selection algorithms, liveness analysis, and register allocation (a topic that wasn’t even in the index of the text I used 15 years ago). This breakdown of topics is a good reflection of where a compiler writer’s time actually goes. Most books, on the other hand, tend to concentrate on what we already understand (57 flavors of parsing) rather than what we actually do.”
on 02024-12-21a 2012 #review #paper #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11