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Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning is a book on Nazi Germany’s Reserve Police Battalion 101, which participated in the Holocaust. The primary discussion in the book is on how a group of ordinary, middle-aged Germans became mass murderers. He attempts to understand how this transformation took place, and he uses insights from [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, Randy Pausch’s book The Last Lecture has become a runaway success. (And Randy has was named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people, which is an honor he absolutely deserves.) The day after Finals week ended I read the book cover to cover.
It is [...]

I just ran across a post on Concurring Opinions that rocked me back in my seat. The full text of two of Dan Solove’s most popular books are now available online for free. The Digital Person and The Future of Reputation are both fantastic books. I have been meaning to reread them [...]

I have talked about some of the things I would like to see in electronic book readers before. I have a feeling that this is a list that is fundamentally incomplete simply because I haven’t sat down and actually analyzed the problem from an engineering standpoint. However, I read something on Cult of [...]

For many people the idea of reading a book about a mathematical proof right after finishing a semester in a Computer Science graduate program would be an apt definition of torture. First, I am not one of those people. Second, Fermat’s Enigma really isn’t a book about math so much as [...]

I have been meaning to post my thoughts on the book Inequality.com: Money, Power and the Digital Divide by David Stevens and Kieron O’Hara for a while now. Despite the hokey name, the book is rather thought provoking. Essentially it is an attempt to discuss the social and political impact of information communications [...]

One of the latest gadgets to hit the market with massive fanfare is the Amazon Kindle. It was on the cover of Newsweek, where it was hailed as the future of reading.
It hit Slashdot twice. The first time was as a part of the initial hype wave. The second time [...]

This is one of the most hilarious books I have read in a long while. It is called Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. The premise of the book is that a 29 going on 30 secretary named Julie Powell from New York City does something extreme to break the mundane [...]

I bought an iPod Mini several years ago. Like many iPod owners, I was simply blown away. As a skeptical purchaser of anything, I rarely pay attention to the hype surrounding products, but it was hard to find any review of an iPod that didn’t smack of the typical hype-talk surrounding new technologies. [...]

As a JFK assassination buff, I have read several long books about the JFK assassination. However, there is a new book out there that I seriously doubt I will read. This 1632 page long addition to the mass of JFK assassination books is called Reclaiming History and brought to you by the author [...]