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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
Currently reading
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
V-2 Ballistic Missile 1942 - 52 (New Vanguard Series)
My son David loves books about military history, and every now and then I borrow one from him. I found this one extremely interesting... having worked at two startups, I am receptive to stories about what happens when you try to introduce new technology. Here are some of the lessons I learned from David's book on the V-2.- The V-2 program was very expensive. In fact, it cost about as much as the US's Manhattan Project, which ended up producing the world's first nuclear weapons.
- Despite the huge investment, the V-2 hardly helped Germany at all. The first prototypes only became operational when the war was as good as lost. The number of people killed in V-2 attacks was actually less than the number of slave laborers killed in building the rockets.
The rest of this review is in my book If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures
