OpenTask plans to publish the extended and edited version of this blog as a book:
Literate Scientists and Their Books: An Independent Guide to Understanding Reality (ISBN: 978-1906717520)
- Dmitry Vostokov @ LiterateScientist.com -
I bought this book (as used, it seems no longer available in print) after reading Fashionable Nonsense which refers to it. Highly recommended to anyone starting to write on non-technical subjects to avoid inventing new jargon and repeat obvious as well as to anyone trying to get a (self-)education in social sciences like me and be suspicious to excessive verbiage. I like his formula V = A / K - 1, where V is the amount of produced verbiage, A is the amount of ambition and K is the amount of knowledge on the subject and related disciplines.
I don’t have its cover jacket with me today but I’ll take a picture of it later and put here.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ LiterateScientist.com -
Yesterday it had been one year since I wrote the first blog post here:
The Nonlinear Universe: Chaos, Emergence, Life
Since then I wrote reviews about more than 35 books and I plan at least to double them this year.
In 2008 my book collection expanded a bit. I bought about 66 books on Amazon US, 40 books on Amazon UK, 6 books on Amazon Canada and several dozens of books in local bookshops so there is much to review here 
I wish a Happy New Year to all voracious readers in the World!
- Dmitry Vostokov @ LiterateScientist.com -
