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book review: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

By BabakF | Published: November 27, 2011

This is one of the books that my daughter (10) has been talking about for a while. I read it yesterday afternoon. It was quite exciting and sad at times. It is a beautiful book that really takes you back to your childhood. I should read more children’s books. It is about a china rabbit [...]

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Book review: The shallows- what the internet is doing to our brains

By BabakF | Published: July 9, 2011

I finished this book on the flight to Istanbul today. The book is a continuation of an article from the Atlantic called “Is Google making us stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains”. I never read that article though I think I heard about it a while ago. If you are one of [...]

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Book review: Eating Animals

By BabakF | Published: July 5, 2011

What do we teach our kids while we raise them? In two words: double standards. We call them compromises, but in reality we are talking about double standards. The story of the book “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer is a good example. I got the book as a gift for my birthday this year [...]

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Book review: The Pragmatic Programmer

By BabakF | Published: April 30, 2011

This is a book that starts a bit boring but becomes very interesting and extremely useful at the end. This will be a must read for my students.

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Book review: The First Human

By BabakF | Published: April 15, 2011

One would not expect that someone could write a thriller about boring scientists. I enjoyed this book a lot. Not only because of its documentary thriller style but also because I learned tremendously about where I come from.

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