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MannyRayner

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
Richard Dawkins
R in Action
Robert Kabacoff
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Douglas R. Hofstadter
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Harold McGee
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Simon Evnine
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Christopher M. Bishop
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
Richard C. Tolman
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten

Private Eye - The Book of Covers, Celebrating 1000 Issues

Private Eye - The Book of Covers, Celebrating 1000 Issues - Private Eye Sad to say, Private Eye aren't quite as wonderfully tasteless as they used to be... but on a good day they can still annoy the hell out of most of England, and they take particular pride in their covers. A few samples to give you the general idea:



John Major succeeds Margaret Thatcher

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Iranian plane accidentally shot down, hundreds dead

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Princess Di killed in Paris

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