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Hyrum Wright, Tom Manshreck, Titus Winters: Software Engineering at Google (paperback, 2020, O'Reilly Media)

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myrmidex reviewed The Vanishing Middle Class by Professor Peter Temin

Professor Peter Temin: The Vanishing Middle Class (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Blackstone Audio, Blackstone Audiobooks)

Review of 'The Vanishing Middle Class' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Everything up to the Conclusions was very interesting...

myrmidex rated Into the water: 2 stars

Paula Hawkins: Into the water (2017, Riverhead Books)

Into the water by Paula Hawkins

myrmidex rated 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories: 3 stars

Isaac Asimov: 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1980, Avon)

100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories by Isaac Asimov

A loint of paw / Isaac Asimov -- The advent on Channel Twelve / C.M. Kornbluth -- Plaything / Larry …

myrmidex rated Capitalism hits the fan: 4 stars

Richard D. Wolff: Capitalism hits the fan (2010, Olive Branch Press)

Capitalism hits the fan by Richard D. Wolff

myrmidex rated The Road: 5 stars

Cormac McCarthy: The Road (2006, Alfred A. Knopf)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …

myrmidex rated Manufacturing Consent: 4 stars

Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman: Manufacturing Consent (2002, Pantheon Books)

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news …

myrmidex rated The Odyssey: 4 stars

Homer: The Odyssey (Paperback, 2005, Pocket)

The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …

myrmidex rated The philosophy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT): 5 stars

Donald Robertson: The philosophy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) (EBook, 2010, Karnac)

The philosophy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) by Donald Robertson

myrmidex rated Curious: 2 stars

Ian Leslie: Curious (2014, House of Anansi Press)

myrmidex reviewed A Peoples History of the World by Chris Harman

Chris Harman: A Peoples History of the World (AudiobookFormat, 2021, Tantor and Blackstone Publishing)

Review of 'A Peoples History of the World' on 'Storygraph'

1 star

If only the title had been "A Trotskyist Account of a People's History of the World", I wouldn't have felt such disappointment. The political views of the author lead him to omit, distort and even outright lie in order to make it fit the analyses of his great heroes: Marx, Trotsky and Luxemburg.