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What Sallamah Didn’t Know

This book gives an interesting insight into cultural and ethnic practices in Singapore.


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Posted in Learning, Reviews - Books, Travel & Culture on 9 Jan 2008

The Crazy Makers

The Crazy Makers explores the dietary reasons why students perform below potential at school and why the rate of emotional crises is increasing.


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Posted in Learning, Reviews - Books on 27 Dec 2007

Learning in Adulthood

This book is an extensive overview of the current literature on adult learning, with some added perspectives on the cultural context of learning.


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Posted in Learning, Reviews - Books on 19 Sep 2007

Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire

Rafe Esquith’s story about his grade 5 Hobart Shakespeareans is inspiring and thought provoking. It’s certainly worth a read.


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Posted in Learning, Mathematics, Reviews - Books on 28 Aug 2007

The Culture Code

The Culture Code gives an interesting view on world cultures, by outlining the imprinting that goes on at an early age.


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Posted in Learning, Reviews - Books, Travel & Culture on 23 Jun 2007

Weaving the Web

Who invented the WWW? How did the son of 2 mathematics teachers change the world?


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Reviews - Books on 1 Sep 2006

Designing Web Usability

The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen. I have read a lot of Nielsen’s “Alert Box” usability articles and I like most of what I read there. I was interested to read further.


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Reviews - Books on 28 Aug 2006

Black Ice

This is an excellent plausible and scary thriller about how to shut down the US, without firing a shot.


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Posted in Mathematics, Reviews - Books on 25 Jul 2006

Collapse

This is a manual on how to end your own civilisation - by ruining the environment.


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Posted in Environment, Reviews - Books on 23 Jul 2006

State of War

The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
James Risen, ©2005
To better understand how the Bush adminstration got itself into such a mess in the Middle East, this book is a must-read. Almost every page contains yet another extraordinary scandal.
To me, one of the biggest scandals is the way Bush and his cronies have [...]


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Posted in Reviews - Books on 9 May 2006

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