New collection - notes
Some introduction of the new joiners of my collection:
A land of two halves - An accidental tour of New Zealand ~ Joe Bennett
* Joe Benett went to New Zealand originally for a one year job. After 15 years he's still here. This is a book about his travelling around NZ to find out what has kept him there...
Air Babylon ~ Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
* This is the second book of the Babylon series, the first line of introduction on the back cover is 'Do you know the best place to have sex on a plane?'
Architects of eternity - The new science of fossils ~ Richard Corfield
* This book is about why fossils matter and what they can show us
Bloomsbury grammar guide - Grammar made easy ~ Gordon Jarvie
* There is always something you may not know in a grammar book
Breaking Vegas ~ Ben Mezrich
* This is a biography. If you have heard about how 6 MIT students took Vegas for millions, this is the sequel. The first book is called Bringing Down The House by the same author
Cupboard love - How to get the most out of your kitchen ~ Tom Norrington-Davies
* This book is about how to cook like a normal person - no need to be a celebrity chef or be a microwave slave
Endless feasts - Sixty years of writing from Gourmet ~ Ruth Reichl
* This is a collection of gastronomic proses on gourmet travel, gourmet in american scenes, personalities of gourmet, matters of taste and on foods and cooking
Extra virgin - Amongst the olive groves of Liguria ~ Annie Hawer
* This is the female version of Peter Mayle in Italy
Fashion Babylon ~ Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
* The latest in Babylon series, another insider story of, this time, the fashion industry
Hotel Babylon ~ Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
* The first in Babylon series two years ago, I was too busy to pick it up at that time. Hopefully I have the leisure now.
Lost for words - The mangling and manipulating of the English language ~ John Humphrys
* Johm Humphrys has an over 45 years of journalistic career with BBC and has been described as a 'national treasure'. This book is about how English language has been abused by politicians, business leaderes, professors and bureaucrats.
Nectar ~ Lily Prior
* This is a novel set in Italy about a servant girl whose betwitching aroma drives men how inhale it into an erotic frenzy. I first came across this book at Bloomsbury when its shop was still on ice house street and I didn't buy it. This time I'm not going to miss it.
Our iceberg is melting - Changing and succeeding under any conditions ~ John Kotter
* John Kotter is the Change Management Guru, and his latest book is a fable of how his Eight Steps can be carried out. I expect this book will be something like the Squirrel-Inc. fable I got or the famous who-moved-my-cheese fable
Red dog ~ Louis de Bernieres
* Louis de Bernieres, the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which is an excellent story.
Ripped and torn - Levi's, Latin America and the blue jean dream ~ Amaranta Wright
* This is an extract from the back cover: 'Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to journey through Latin America, befriending teenagers and helping Levi's market their products more effectively to a continent in crisis... but instead the journey brought about a political awakening, opening her eyes to the developed world's overbearing desire to brand people as consumers...'
The fly in the cathedral - How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom ~ Brian Cathcart
* This is categorized as a Science book, detailing the triumph of ingenuity over adversity, that in a shabby Cambridge lab a team cobbled together handmade or recycled components - while American rivals had state-of-the-art equipment - to make one of the great scientific breakthroughs of all time.
The perfect egg and other secrets ~ Aldo Buzzi
* This is a small book (in terms of size and no. of pages) on the pleasure of food. I bought it because my ever favourite boiled egg with fluid egg yolk is right on the front cover.
To the Baltic with Bob ~ Griff Rhys Jones
* Baltic, a region I do not foresee myself going in the near future
Two Lucky People ~ Milton & Rose D. Friedman
* Yes, this is the Friedman who denounced our government of abandoning the policy of positive non-intervention. This is an autobiography published back in 1998. I have wanted to own and read it since then.
A land of two halves - An accidental tour of New Zealand ~ Joe Bennett
* Joe Benett went to New Zealand originally for a one year job. After 15 years he's still here. This is a book about his travelling around NZ to find out what has kept him there...
Air Babylon ~ Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
* This is the second book of the Babylon series, the first line of introduction on the back cover is 'Do you know the best place to have sex on a plane?'
Architects of eternity - The new science of fossils ~ Richard Corfield
* This book is about why fossils matter and what they can show us
Bloomsbury grammar guide - Grammar made easy ~ Gordon Jarvie
* There is always something you may not know in a grammar book
Breaking Vegas ~ Ben Mezrich
* This is a biography. If you have heard about how 6 MIT students took Vegas for millions, this is the sequel. The first book is called Bringing Down The House by the same author
Cupboard love - How to get the most out of your kitchen ~ Tom Norrington-Davies
* This book is about how to cook like a normal person - no need to be a celebrity chef or be a microwave slave
Endless feasts - Sixty years of writing from Gourmet ~ Ruth Reichl
* This is a collection of gastronomic proses on gourmet travel, gourmet in american scenes, personalities of gourmet, matters of taste and on foods and cooking
Extra virgin - Amongst the olive groves of Liguria ~ Annie Hawer
* This is the female version of Peter Mayle in Italy
Fashion Babylon ~ Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
* The latest in Babylon series, another insider story of, this time, the fashion industry
Hotel Babylon ~ Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
* The first in Babylon series two years ago, I was too busy to pick it up at that time. Hopefully I have the leisure now.
Lost for words - The mangling and manipulating of the English language ~ John Humphrys
* Johm Humphrys has an over 45 years of journalistic career with BBC and has been described as a 'national treasure'. This book is about how English language has been abused by politicians, business leaderes, professors and bureaucrats.
Nectar ~ Lily Prior
* This is a novel set in Italy about a servant girl whose betwitching aroma drives men how inhale it into an erotic frenzy. I first came across this book at Bloomsbury when its shop was still on ice house street and I didn't buy it. This time I'm not going to miss it.
Our iceberg is melting - Changing and succeeding under any conditions ~ John Kotter
* John Kotter is the Change Management Guru, and his latest book is a fable of how his Eight Steps can be carried out. I expect this book will be something like the Squirrel-Inc. fable I got or the famous who-moved-my-cheese fable
Red dog ~ Louis de Bernieres
* Louis de Bernieres, the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which is an excellent story.
Ripped and torn - Levi's, Latin America and the blue jean dream ~ Amaranta Wright
* This is an extract from the back cover: 'Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to journey through Latin America, befriending teenagers and helping Levi's market their products more effectively to a continent in crisis... but instead the journey brought about a political awakening, opening her eyes to the developed world's overbearing desire to brand people as consumers...'
The fly in the cathedral - How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom ~ Brian Cathcart
* This is categorized as a Science book, detailing the triumph of ingenuity over adversity, that in a shabby Cambridge lab a team cobbled together handmade or recycled components - while American rivals had state-of-the-art equipment - to make one of the great scientific breakthroughs of all time.
The perfect egg and other secrets ~ Aldo Buzzi
* This is a small book (in terms of size and no. of pages) on the pleasure of food. I bought it because my ever favourite boiled egg with fluid egg yolk is right on the front cover.
To the Baltic with Bob ~ Griff Rhys Jones
* Baltic, a region I do not foresee myself going in the near future
Two Lucky People ~ Milton & Rose D. Friedman
* Yes, this is the Friedman who denounced our government of abandoning the policy of positive non-intervention. This is an autobiography published back in 1998. I have wanted to own and read it since then.
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aaarrrr... when will you have a garage sale?
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