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Superman against Newton, Robert Weinberg and Lois Gresh

Loved this book. And I say this from two perspectives: that of the person who knows the subject, and that the person who does not know him at all.

In what sense? Now I will explain.
I'm not a huge fan of comics. With few exceptions (which I'll discuss later) the comics world is completely foreign to me. At most I've seen some film adaptation (Spider-Man, Batman, the Fantastic Four). Of other characters, though well-known (Hulk, Flash) I knew practically nothing.
In this sense this book is excellent: he speaks in detail of the various heroes to explain not only the features of scientific, but also the social context in which they were born, the character and peculiarities more strictly narrative. At the same time explains the phenomenon of "comic", which helped me to get even better in context and understand some choices of the authors. Authors of which is given a very interesting interview at the end of the book that prompted me several ideas that I intend to speak soon on the blog.
But first, I was talking about exceptions. In fact, there is a comic that I know very well, I've read just the first story (reprinted in one volume a few years ago): Superman, which luckily is the first hero to be covered in the book. In this case I could fully appreciate the references to episodes specific, the subtleties of the book is rich. And I must say that the chapter on Superman touches upon some scientific problems (there is life in the universe? And if so, how likely is that there is intelligent?) Which I find very interesting. The explanations provided by the authors are well documented and made me discover a lot of information.

The second exception is a comic book but I would have thought to find covered in this book. I was expecting, for example, Mandrake (which is not), with all the talk of hypnotism. Or Wonder Woman, I do not know who has powers, but it sounds good (there is not even her). O Captain America, or maybe one of those who I do not know despite being famous.

But I never imagined to find a real hero of my childhood. The comic I've ever eaten, often snubbed by adults and young people, and above him, the bigger picture, of which I have read hundreds of stories. Carl Barks, the man of goslings. In fact (I wonder why ....) mentioning the story I remember well.

With this choice the authors have earned my undying respect.

Beautiful book, well written, enjoyable and interesting. Only drawback, too short:) Recommended

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Fever brass, Ellery Queen

Inspector Queen, now retired, got married. Thanks to his wife, finds himself entangled in a curious case that tests his sleuthing skills. The promise of earning one thousand U.S. dollars before, and after several thousand, six pushes people to stay for a few weeks in the house of brass, the home of an elderly millionaire would-be very strange. The gloomy atmosphere of the ruined palace is accentuated by the massive use of brass to cover furniture, furnishings and more. Ellery
does not appear, except in the last pages, where the Queen and the Inspector must draw on its own. Unlike what I expected, this situation does not play in its favor: despite propose different interpretations of the mystery, they are regularly removed by new evidence or the testimony of the other characters. And in the end Ellery find the solution. Partial solution which remains a part of the mystery, in fact, not answered, except for some speculation.
The plot is well constructed, and the atmosphere is exciting, but I have no love for the finale. I expected different answers to the questions that arise during the novel, and above all I was expecting an Inspector Queen outlined in another way.
In general, in my opinion, a book is acceptable, certainly not excelled.

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Latin for all occasions, by Henry Beard

Visit the Ara Pacis for the exhibition of Chagall. Upon leaving, a quick glance at the bookshop. I see it, including a kit for building your own mosaic and a T-shirt "All roads lead to Rome". "Latin for all occasions." I'll take it in hand and flip through. The dilemma: I buy it or not? Silly or ingenious?

We try to buy it, I hope I do not regret it.

Definitely I have not regretted it. A hilarious book!

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so elegant you'll excuse me?

Do it in Latin! This book gives you the chance!

From the Latin for hackers to Latin for the embarrassment, passing by the beach in Latin, Latin for love affairs and one for lying.

hilarious.

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Handbook of conversation, Achille Campanile

Achille Campanile is one of my favorite authors since our first "meeting", when, around 14 years to cheer up a week of fever, my mother gave me "In Campaign another thing. "
For those unfamiliar with this author, this is the largest Italian humorist of the twentieth century. I can already feel fine serious people who mumble (I've already been) Ah, humor, trinkets from Zelig, certainly not great literature. Anyone who says such a thing does not know Campanile. In this author the joke, the pun, the double meaning (still very modest, by today's standards) become.
A significant percentage of his books is just so, to laugh to tears, unable to stop, perhaps alone in bed, creating a perfect interlude of being inside the bustle of everyday life.
Then there are books like this. Intimate and personal reflections on life and the world.
When you read the "Handbook of conversation," you laugh a little. He smiles a lot, however, finding in the words of its author's many unspoken thoughts, the tenderness that binds to the past, much of their daily lives. In some cases a small tear roll down his cheek, while recognizing the correctness and universality of some bitter reflections.
Although I prefer to read the Campanile ridanciano consider this book a collection of many small jewels, which shed light on this, in my opinion, a great author. Campanile's laughter does not arise from the shallowness of those who are always happy, but the full knowledge the difficulties of life, believing that the only weapon we possess to make the problems more bearable and your smile.

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The chair n.30, Ellery Queen

As I said before I taste very limited in terms of Cards: I like Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Erle Stanley Gardner, Daniela Comastri Montanari, E. .. Isaac Asimov, of course! The authors do not know them, when I tried to read a thriller that fell outside the list of writers I've always said girder bad, so I will continue this way unless the advice (always welcome:))
Ellery Queen very much, even if I do not appreciate all his books the same way, in fact sometimes I find I'm exaggerating a bit, giving a tone of 'excessive and surreal (as in the novel "And on the eighth day ..."). The chair
No 30 I found it cute, but not great. A crime occurred in a theater during the performance of a show. Everything revolves around a missing detail: the cylinder of the victim. Interesting, but I've read better.

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study in red, by Arthur Conan Doyle

As a teenager I was crazy about Sherlock Holmes. I liked her very scientific way to solve cases, its aura of "superhero" and even the gloomy atmosphere and a 'Gothic' of his novels (which normally abhor). I read several stories, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Some time later I found this book at the home of Uncle Indiana, one night I slept there, and I decided to read it. I liked the story of the encounter between Holmes and Watson, the beginnings of their friendship, and I appreciated the news about their past, which helped me to better understand some references found in other books. The story took me, as always: a lot of strange clues, some tracks more or less plausible, then the twist. Holmes discovers the murderess, a guy never seen or heard before. Fine.
It begins the story of a heartbreaking thing that has nothing to do. I read it for a few pages but it was just too heartbreaking for me, and I closed the book. A
question arises: what??
I mean, you, the king of yellow, I write a story from the most acclaimed in which the investigator takes a guy ever heard, said to be the murderess, but then does not show how he discovered, or why? It does not take a genius to write a certain yellow like that ....
What I did not understand at the time, used to tell was that the second part of the book was not a story in itself, but was linked (after a dozen or more pages) to the story read in part one. I noticed a few days ago when I re-read.
I must be frank, I really enjoyed it. I like Sherlock Holmes' brilliant deductions, the investigations, the most of the smoky atmosphere London, 50 pages of history almost completely separated from the main mystery, with the aggravating circumstance of the final sad not for me. I'll be back to read the stories, I appreciate them more.

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Longitude, by Dava Sobel

When I lived in London my dad came to visit and convinced us to go to Greenwich. We have seen the observatory museum but we were quite disappointed. It was not bad, for charity, but a lot for children. Then came the famous square where the statue that indicates the meridian we saw a little house. I asked about, was the home of the astronomer royal, then transformed into a museum. Upon entering, it was love at first sight. It tells the story of longitude, to calculate the difficulties, attempts, partial solutions, and the history of clocks. I fell in love, and the bookshop dad gave me the famous book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel. I started reading a very short time later, but I did not understand much and I let it go. In fact it is full of technical terms, and is not an easy read in the original language.
Indiana Dad is fond of mathematics, astronomy, strange mechanisms and lots of other things that I do not understand. For this reason, Indiana uncle always gives a lot of books on mathematics, astronomy, and other mechanisms strange things that do not understand. When I saw her on the library "Longitude" in Italian, I decided to try again.
The book tells the story of the calculation of longitude, which ends with becoming the history of modern watch, and their inventor, Harrison. The story is beautiful, but the book does not bear comparison with the museum in Greenwich. Come back from the museum was gasatissima: I learned a lot of interesting technical details, I understand how the various clocks Harrison, and I saw with my own eyes his genius. The book, however, tells the story very well, but it runs too much on the more technical part. I could say that "tells" the genius of Harrison, but not the shows. Some illustrations and a small appendix on the operation of the clocks would make the story very more compelling in my opinion. I realize that probably the author is not an expert, but writing something like, "Harrison decided to use diamonds to the cut-out" without explaining what it means and what is the escapement of a clock seems a bit 'useless.
In any case, I found a very good book, I just think that maybe, if the author had seen the museum in Greenwich before writing it (she herself admits to be gone in a second time) would have been even better.


PS: I just discovered that there is an illustrated version of the book, from what I understand is only available in English, can be found on Amazon.

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impotent man wanted for peaceful coexistence, Gaby Hauptmann

start with the protagonist. A beautiful woman, stunning body, which is losing its head at every living male within 2 km. Stove and charm that makes the effect on men who only want one thing from her, he decides that it should be solved at its root by eliminating the sex of his life. Puts into practice its aim through an ad in which a man tries to have a relationship in which powerless. It is a number, promising enough, until it receives a particular response and decided that his love of his life. The meeting confirmed his assumption, and it seems as if you should marry the next day, because of course he is of the same opinion. But at this point, the protagonist begins to regret his initial intentions. After a necessary pseudointernazionale intrigue (the author just can not help it), definitely a lot of petty psychology questionable (especially the views of impotence and frigidity), comes the happy ending. Dull.

The idea is not bad, but I grew so confused and stupid.
Even the protagonist is unsympathetic to me. It will not properly Claudia Schiffer, who will not turn when I walk anyone, but to me these beautiful women, beautiful, unreal perfect give a lot on my nerves (I had already spoken ). Hover placing one place to another non-issue (oh, that unfortunately, I take everyone for a prostitute .. well, my dear, the behavior that you do not know what else you could expect), he can always all right, have a lot of money and everything they want. Well, I would like to have what I need to do a hard Executioner, and not always succeed, so can not stand. Will envy? likely, but I'm not ashamed.
Then in many cases (the rest it comes to impotence) the author is an amateur psychologist sudden saying things that seem to come from the "Handbook of Small psychologist." Grandma Duck with his proverbs would prove far more profound.
But I say, it is necessary (as in this case ) cite Freud Baci? Because these authors do not write a simple story, without being pretentious, which look exactly like what it is: romance? But no, you have to be deep .... And drown in a puddle.

Every time I read a book by this author I do not like the previous one. I just need a stupid book to distract me during a difficult period and I only had this pad.

And excuse me for being so irritable, I will pass.

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Dracula, Plato and Darwin, by Martin Gardner Books

During this time I am reading several books on mathematics. There are several reasons, firstly I returned to Rome for a month and I only have the well-stocked library of Dad, then they are under stress, and mathematics books are great for relaxing. There is nothing better than a good puzzle to occupy the mind and not think about everyday problems.

Martin Gardner is a myth, and his essays are as always very nice. I found a particularly happy choice of essays, topics are very varied, as well as styles. We move from mathematical games and paradoxes to the presentation of complex scientific theories, such as strings. Talk about issues mathematicians known as the Fibonacci series, and then moves on topics completely outside his field, as genetics and neurology (though I regret to say that genetics seems to have ideas at times slightly confusing).

The style is often witty and imaginative, I liked the stories more or less science fiction, the rest many of the essays presented here have been published in the journal Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , and I appreciate this very much ties with one of my favorite writers .

I also really liked his sociological and philosophical. Cites numerous philosophers, more or less known to the general public, presents the views of different schools and finally take a position critical reasons for his point of view on the basis of what it expresses.

This book I also recalled another of my favorite writers, the great Gould : Gardner as he has shown in these essays a wide culture and considerable curiosity about different phenomena between them.

He also shared with the famous paleontologist also his efforts against the pseudoscience that I can not appreciate.

PS: my copy, bought in a Feltrinelli in Rome, was printed wrong. I contacted the publisher (Zanichelli), and they're very kind. For those who need it I called the number you find on this website http://www.zanichelli.it/contatti/

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and love in Los Angeles, Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman

I was in a moment. I passed in front of a feast of books, all for 4 euro. I saw the cover. I read the back cover. The main character is a young divorced woman, passionate reader, when something in her life does not go to stay at home and read, read, read, read. Basically my dream (if only there was a "little problem" of labor). When I read "I collect new books in the same way in which my friend bought bags signed. Sometimes I just know of them and I ask myself the question if I to read them. Not that the end does not read them all, one by one. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy: life is more promising, more rewarding. It 'hard to explain, but I feel, in a sense, more optimistic. The whole rigmarole of purchase makes me happy. "I decided I had to buy it. I just started back home.

The first pages are nice. But then he started on my nerves. Meanwhile, the protagonist does not nothing from morning to evening, but laurels. It complains as well. Then puts a citation every two or three sentences, as if to show what has been taken. Most of the books mentioned, however, are by U.S. authors.
Then there the difficult choice between two handsome men, says the back cover. The first is in my humble opinion, a poor loser selfish, snobbish and presuppositional and the second does not inspire me at all. It seems as if it must be nice from a certain point in the book just need to plot.
In general there is an irritating superficiality in all the events and characters in the book. Some ideas are interesting, but held in a surface so as to be almost commonplace.

Mainly I can not stand this book for one simple reason. The protagonist is not a lover of books, but a person with a defect in obsessive-compulsive disorder in relation to reading. Deviated from the point of view love for reading, as if those who read it did only to escape to the surrounding reality, and to return to "normal" should reduce the frequency of his readings. A final assessment of that seemed very partial, misleading and inappropriate. Present the main character as a lover of reading is equivalent to present Hitler as "obnoxious."

This book seems to me an American idiot and superficial. Horrible.

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Otto Little Pigs, by Stephen Jay Gould

Like a good paleontologist almost can not not like Gould. His way of telling the nature and evolution is very exciting. I have read several collections of his essays, but still pretty old. It 's the first time I read a collection among the most recent, and hit me in many ways, some even negative.
Firstly it is clear that Gould is more mature. His legendary style acquires more depth, appear the most current issues and "committed" (including the relationship between man and environment in our society), and increasing incursions into unexpected areas (a beautiful essay on the mechanisms of memory). There is also a fairly detailed discussion of his theory of punctuated equilibrium.
The book is very long, there are 31 essays, more than 500 pages. From my point of view I would have preferred rather two books, would have been much lighter and more enjoyable. The text is
divided into several sections. The first analyzes the relationship between man and environment effects of human activities on some ecosystems. The theme is very interesting and treated with great skill, but I have not read it with pleasure, made me reflect and saddened (as indeed it is right that is).
The second part deals with four themes that anyone who has studied vertebrate paleontology is very familiar: the convergence of marine reptiles and fish, in particular ichthyosaur and shark, and the evolution of the auditory ossicles in the transition between reptiles and amphibians and then between reptiles and mammals, the evolutionary relationship between lung and bladder and the history of the arts in five fingers. E 'section that I liked more, I recalled the wonderful lessons of vertebrate paleontology. To my knowledge, Gould has written a textbook on this subject, and if so I find it a shame, his prose enthralling and interesting topic it would have done a very nice book.

The third speaks of the influence of historical, philosophical and social scientific theories and their understanding. Allows for reflection on some errors that often appears when we study the theories developed in the past. In these cases it is tempting to read with our eyes, not with those who wrote them, with the risk of misunderstanding sensational. I especially loved the story of famous biblical chronology proposed by Ussher fixing the date of the creation in 4004 BC: I did not know much and I really enjoyed finding out about what basis has been established and because of his fame.
The fourth section is entitled "Meditations" and submit that Gould might call a philosopher who asked about the relationship we have with the past. Our point of view of the past is conditioned by a number of assumptions inherent in our nature, in part, partly induced by the historical context in which we live. It 's always important to know our limits and those trying to take them into account when possible.
The fifth part is a pleasant surprise, is the condition of human evolution. Very interesting the essay on Mozart, which demonstrates once more the great ability of Gould in interdisciplinary work.

From here on, the book becomes quite technical. If these chapters were placed in a paper shorter than I would have appreciated much more, but I must admit that I have read with difficulty and I was a bit 'bored. The last part I read it really forced to finishing the book, maybe I should take up more calmly. Duty except the essay on ' Hallucigenia , which I found very interesting.

In short it is a very interesting book for fans and for those who know something, quite confusing for those not familiar with the subject. Most of the essays, taken alone, are very affordable, but not share the decision to bring together so many and varied in a book so long.

10 and praise to Gould, a 6 - publisher

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Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

As I already told are a huge fan of Jane Austen from the age of 14 years, when I found out at school Pride and Prejudice and I finished in two days.
I read his major novels (plus Lady Susan) several times, and as always in great novels are "grown up with me." If the first time I was more attention to history, now are the choices of the characters and their attitudes to hit more.
Mansfield Park is a novel that I have heard in many ways. There are those who particularly loves the sweet and submissive Fanny, but whoever is a bit 'nasty, bigoted and not very lively.
Until a few years ago I was incredibly nice. Her sweetness, her shyness I touched.
Strangely this reading (which is more than one year from the previous year) made me change my mind. Fanny certainly I am not unsympathetic, but there were times when I wanted to take her by the shoulders, shake and say "Come on, wake up! spin 'Aunt Norris, for' your stuff and take Edward to Miss Crawford! Well, you waiting for?". A very unexpected reaction from me.
Maybe Fanny is a part of me that some years ago was more important, and that in recent times has changed. But I'm very curious to know what I will bring the next readings.

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Ulysses, by Antonio Spinosa

The subtitle ("free interpretation of the Odyssey") says it all. It is the Odyssey, but the Odyssey through the eyes of the author. And they are two different things. Spinosa's Ulysses is not a man of iron, but a man of today.
Ulysses has a very ambivalent towards life, a relationship that I, as an Italian abroad, partly agree. On the one hand the charm of travel and discovery, on the other distant family, home, roots. And it's hard for him, as for me, deciding whether and when to stop, figure out which of the two companies will lead to greater peace of mind. And through the clash with new realities, through compromise with the past Ulysses eventually grows, and chooses, as we all have to do one day (though not necessarily share his choices). Frankly I do not remember what all this is part of the Odyssey the original (I decided to reread it to find out) but in any If I find a good modern reinterpretation of the ancient myth. The style, in particular, is archaic and poetic, it creates an interesting link to the original.
And, I might add, I see an Italian in Ulysses. A man often petty, blowhard, boring, incoherent, in many ways an anti-hero.
Maybe that's why I'm being nice ... Ulysses is a deeply human and modern ...

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manutenzone Care and Women's, Jerome Jerome Klapka

A Jerome a bit more 'thoughtful and less than ridanciano known through the three men in a boat, more' in line with "The thoughts of an idle idle. "These brief reflections on the theme of the woman I liked very much for the love Jerome shows to bring to the female sex. These criticisms joking, his teasing, his humor can not hide a respect and appreciation that transpires between the lines. Praise for the woman as such, leading to the contempt of those aesthetic practices that demean the woman as an individual to make a simple Barbie equal to all others. It appears the last topical chapter. Read it today a hundred years after the time at which 'was written, in a world of inflated by Botox and silicone, is definitely a strange feeling ...

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Strange creatures, by Tracy Chevalier

When you think about the early days of paleontology, the discoverer of dinosaurs is often presented as an intersection is Charles Darwin, Professor. Lidenbrock (the crazy scientist-genialoide of "Journey to the Center of the Earth", so to speak) and Indiana Jones. A century aristocrat a bit 'a little scientist' explorer, some 'genius, a bit' weird.
This book, however, points the spotlight on two very different from this stereotype. A girl and a faded old maid who has now passed the marriageable age are represented in many important discoveries, including some beautiful ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs exhibited in London.

Tracy Chevalier is used to speaking to women: important women, ordinary women, I've only read his books "The Lady and the Unicorn" and "The Girl dall'orecchino of pearl", which although beautiful I was very bitter. The author in fact is always talking about women who nevertheless eventually find themselves having to submit to a male-dominated world which has led, and in part still is ours. While accepting this option if inserted in a context of historical accuracy, do not share it for the simple reason that we're talking about novels. And in the novel the author would also have decided to give a small victory to his female characters. In this book finally comes victory, and it is complete.

The author deals with many sensitive issues of interest: the contribution made to science and knowledge from the fans or the simple and uneducated people, the role of women in science and the hardships they had to overcome to reach it, the rivalry between scientists .

But above tells the compelling story of a discovery of a face to face with the terrible sea monsters, as seen through the eyes of the first, if he found them before, not having the foggiest idea what they were. And the story of a friendship.

Very nice, and very well written.

PS: I think the title, "Remarkable cretures" is poorly translated, but the cover I find it fantastic.

PS for lovers of Jane Austen speaks of Lyme, and I think it definitely has something "Persuasion"

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The stories of Blacks Widowers, Isaac Asimov

Asimov growing more and more in my estimation. In addition to great science fiction writer who we all know, the funny but good scientist whom many know, this book demonstrates the great capacity of crime writer. Already in other novels (such as "Caves of Steel," "The Naked Sun") was developed by Asimov "yellow" in science fiction, but in these stories is the setting of Blacks Widowers more classical, though not without a hint of irony.
A group of friends who want to meet away from their wives. They decide to create a club, the club for Widowers Blacks, in fact, whose meetings are held once a month, following a precise ritual.
For case, you start to talk about mysteries, then choose continue. This book collected 12 cases curious (not necessarily crimes), and the twist that I liked most about the method of investigation: no investigation, practical solutions and immediate result of the single deduction. Each case is quickly dashed in the essential , making stories very smooth and easy to read.
When I read the yellow, always takes me a lot to learn the characters, their roles, the relationships between them. In these stories left out that part is right, and he does not miss.
Further evidence of skill for one of my favorite writers.
Beautiful.

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Zero or five lifetimes of Aemer, Denis Guedj

As mentioned Denis Guedj I really like. I love the way he skillfully mixing archeology, history, mathematics and philosophy, I like his style, I love her stories. I have read several of his novels and me and everyone 'liked most of the previous year. Except this.
When I started this book I was very disappointed. Tells five stories, five "reincarnation" in later times with the same woman: Aemer. Ur, Babylon, Baghdad, the Gulf War. These five stories have the background to the discovery, or rather the invention of 0, and its role in mathematics.
starting the story of reincarnation I do not like. It seems to me one of those little tricks that writers use fantasy to make their work more appealing, often without success. In this case, even if in fact not at odds, it seems that the repetition of the same character in the five stories to the novel takes something away instead to add it.
also bothered me the figure of the protagonist, this beautiful woman, almost divine in its perfect features. I'm tired of women beautiful and perfect. Aemer seems to me both by advertising one of those girls: beautiful, intelligent, in many of the stories with a job or an important social role, solves its problems and those of others with grace and wisdom. Treated as a postcard too, nice to look at, but too fake to be true. I feel like real characters, in the round, perhaps unpleasant, even stupid, but true.
Beyond 'I find that the personal antipathies of the major flaws of this book is the brevity of the stories. Guedj, a teacher in the novels, it seems forced the structure of the short story, not to dwell too leaves out elements of which the reader feels the lack (or the level of plot, or the level of scientific explanations or the environment). The idea is good, and the history of zero is certainly fascinating, but would have to develop it more, more calmly.
bad, but if that one book was a series of novels (to Ramses, to understand) we would gain immensely.

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The Adventures of Rodney Stone, by Arthur Conan Doyle

The story of a young man on the threshold of maturity, hanging in the balance between a career in the Navy and a great location in the world, and his friend appassionato dalla boxe. Un tema forse atipico per l'autore di Sherlock Holmes. 
Mi ha dato l'impressione di un libro di avventura per ragazzi, ma anche se la storia puo' sembrare (a prima vista) poco interessante e priva di particolari eventi, va detto che la ricostruzione storica e' di prim'ordine. Questo romanzo permette di fare un tuffo nell'Inghilterra ottocentesca, da un punto di vista molto interessante. Sembra una controparte maschile dei romanzi della Austen, tanto quella e' tipicamente femminile nella sensibilita', nella scelta dei temi e nei personaggi, tanto questo e' maschile nelle stesse caratteristiche. E la trattazione delle situazioni da un punto di vista quasi "fanciullesco", di un giovane alle threshold of 'adult, makes this novel particularly be appreciated by a female audience. In addition, as a good fan of Conan Doyle can tell you read on, many details emerge in his novels also developed more 'known. From boxing to get a. ... well, I will not be 'so' bastard to ruin the surprise! : P

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The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett

devoured in a couple of days. Discovered on Anobii I must admit that I expected more substantial in terms of pages, was a disappointment to discover that it reaches page 100. Mostly because I liked it a lot. Witty, funny, at times slightly surreal. It made me reflect, among other things, the role of the Queen of England. I've only read two books about it, this "Queen Camilla" by Sue Townsend, both humorous, so I can not be said to be deeply entrenched on the subject, but I have stimulated some thought.
In both the Queen is seen in a private capacity, as to "humanize" an almost superhuman. And in both cases the emphasis on its role as a reference. No other character has his charisma, his strictness, no other character is at its height. No other member of the Royal Family is considered as she is. a very charismatic figure, a reference point in the moral as well as political, an incarnation of the British spirit and symbol of continuity with the past.
do not know if what I wrote is true, but if it is a viewpoint that I like.

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In flesh and blood, DNA, food and cultures of prehistoric man. Gianfranco Biondi, Fabio Martini, Olga Rickards, and Giuseppe Rotilio

The idea of \u200b\u200bthis book points out "the Neanderthal dinner" but the structure is completely different. While in that it followed the history, the present essay is divided into three separate sections, each focusing on a different theme and each written by different authors.
The first part is the work of Gianfranco Biondi, Olga Rickards, and trafficking of human evolution from an anthropological point of view. There is talk of bones and little else. The issue is potentially interesting, but the treatment I was not impressed: the style is boring and difficult to move, also the text is a repetition of what was written in earlier books by the same authors. I am convinced that the topic would require a look a bit 'wider, who knows how to dwell on the very different but intriguing aspects that have led to the evolution of man.
The second section is written by Giuseppe Rotilio, and explained from a biochemical and physiological effects of changes in diet on human evolution. In these chapters can be found continual references to osteological studies, isotopic, biochemical and genetic studies. Very interesting and very well written, is accessible to anyone with a basic scientific education. N espite the concepts are often complex, are explained thoroughly and easily understood. Only tiny flaw: I would have expected him to speak also of the genetic changes that enabled humans to digest milk (lactase persistence) or after the Neolithic Period. The book stops immediately before, and I think it is a bit 'too bad.
The third section, written by Fabio Martini deals with human culture during the Paleolithic, completes the picture. Unreadable. E 'replete with big words and convoluted language, I had to read sentences three times to understand what they say, and I studied the subject for years.
I think if they had written a unique book, not three completely different sections of the whole would be more organic and pleasing, but this way if it saves only one third, and it is easy to identify flaws and merits of each author.

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I have not read "The Naked Ape" by an author well known but I expected much more. This essay is a collection of curious and interesting information, but put together a very questionable scientific theories that make superficial, unscientific and, on balance, unnecessary.
The book describes each chapter in a part of the female body, from hair to toe, explaining the evolutionary reasons for differences between men and women, seasoned with anecdotes and ethnographic curiosity. The idea sounds interesting, but there are so many and such nonsense passed off as science becomes unreadable.

For example, the author introduces more than once a so-called scientific theory that would man arising from aquatic forms, which would explain the lack of hair, the presence of the hymen (typical of marine mammals), and some say the upright position. Having studied in detail the evolution of man can say that this theory has a zero weight in science textbooks, in lectures at the university level, in scientific papers. Of course, nobody forbids mention it, but talk for two or three times in a popular book seems least risky, the lack of critical requirements can give the impression that this hypothesis has more weight in science than it is true.

Then another thing that gave me a lot nuisance is the tendency to reduce the physical differences between males and females of the human species to the alleged role differentiation in prehistoric times. The man is taller, has more muscles, runs faster, has her nose done anything differently because it was important to his life as a hunter. The woman is lower, have less muscle mass and so on because it was the picker, and she did not need these features.
I would note that the illustrious writer sexual dimorphism is present (and stronger as humans) is closest to us in primates (gorillas and chimpanzees) and in our ancestors several million years ago (and parantropi australopithecines, or however you want to call them). Chimpanzees and gorillas hunted very little, and it seems that the ancient hominid cited were limited to a maximum of stealing the carcasses of freshly killed animals to predators and looters. Accredited scientific theories also relate the size difference between the sexes among the first with the social structure, rather than with the strategies for obtaining food.

Then let's talk about Venus. The Venus figurines are female from the upper Palaeolithic and later periods. Those Paleolithic main feature hips, breasts and belly particularly pronounced, and head and foot normally only sketched.

paleolithic Venus, in order: Dolni Vestonice (Czech Republic), Hohle Fels (Germany), Savignano (Italy), Willendorf (Austria), Lespugue (France, reconstruction, the original is damaged between the breast and belly)

According to the author of this book shows that women Paleolithic, as Bushman and Hottentot women, suffering from steatopygic an excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks. By the same logic then they should be free of arms, feet and small heads and without hair (in many cases, not all).

One final thought, quite subjective. The author speaks of the female characters to explain the evolutionary reasons for which are more attractive. For example, says that the woman keeps most typical children than men, and this stimulates the male protective instincts and makes it more attractive. See, I like a good woman Mediterranean soft but high, with large hands and feet and so I feel a bit 'crap to read that the more feminine features (well, those of women "evolutionarily perfect") have blond hair, fair complexion, small hands and feet, reduced height. Even my navel is wrong, I should it vertical instead of horizontal.
And to think of it also seems to me a point of view a bit 'sexist.

Thumbs down, in fact.