• Apr. 7th, 2011 · The Kindle
    Towel Day is next month so I should really hold my Hitchhiker’s Guide reference… but honestly, this was most worthwhile purchase I made last year. Knock on wood. (0 comments) #

    • Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

    Published February 10, 2011 | No responses yet
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    Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) Malcolm Gladwell 309 pages I read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell way back, but just wanted to briefly write about it. It’s a book that I’ve recommended to anyone who has asked me simply because it is so well-written. Gladwell could write three-hundred pages about dead fish and I’d probably
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    Marzieh Ghiasi
  • Jan. 4th, 2011 · Portraits of the Mind
    “Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century” by Carl Schoonover looks absolutely incredible. There is a fantastic review of the book on NYT. Total #wishlist. (0 comments) #

    • Books in the Digital Revolution

    Published January 01, 2011 | One response so far
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    T he printing press was developed and first used in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg. It was quickly adopted across the world and laid the foundation for technological, socio-political and scientific revolutions in the following centuries. It has been estimated that since the time of Gutenberg some 130 million books have been published worldwide [1], and
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    Marzieh Ghiasi