Securing an IT Organization Through Governance, Risk Management, and Audit
Ken E. Sigler and James L. Rainey
Book
Past events have shed light on the vulnerability of mission-critical computer systems at highly...
Climate Change and Agricultural Development: Improving Resilience Through Climate Smart Agriculture, Agroecology and Conservation
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Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security....
Experimenting on a Small Planet: A History of Scientific Discoveries, a Future of Climate Change and Global Warming: 2016
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This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist...
Darwin's Journey
Tabletop Game
When all you can identify in the horizon for many long days is the line that detaches the sea from...
Tinkerblocks
Education and Games
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Easy and fun coding – for everyone. Tinkerblocks is a coding app for girls and boys aged six and...
The High King’s Tomb: Green Rider #3
Book
More than a thousand years ago, the armies of the Arcosian Empire, led by sorcerer Mornhavon the...
Shaun Collins (3 KP) rated Weapon X: Days Of Future Now in Books
Jan 12, 2018
This appealed to me greatly - showing how someone with true photographic memory might deal with it by pretending to themselves that something they had read years ago and somehow memorised were actually the input from experts in that field (who are dreamt up out of necessity) - so the madness actually arises in order to stay sane!
The book was quite short for my liking, it felt a little like Sanderson dipping his toe to test the waters in the real world.
A really interesting concept, not given the time and effort it might have merited.
Erika (17788 KP) rated Slayer (Slayer #1) in Books
Mar 19, 2019 (Updated Mar 19, 2019)
So, the extent of my Buffy knowledge is limited to the film. But, apparently, crap has gone down, and everyone hates Buffy? The novel does an ok job at filling in necessary gaps, so I wasn't completely lost. Overall, the story was just meh and predictable. I'm fairly sure I've already figured out the entire book series to come. It's also another reminder that new YA is not for me, at all. The characters were...well, kind of meh. The story didn't really pick up until the last 100 pages Overall, this was an ok book, it wasn't good, but it wasn't god-awful. I definitely don't plan on continuing to read the series.
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2173 KP) rated The Hound of the Baskervilles in Books
Mar 9, 2018
My knowledge of the Holmes cannon is embarrassingly lacking, but I took a step toward fixing that with this book. I found Holmes a little hard to take due to his arrogance early on, but as the book progressed, I grew to like him better. The rest of the characters were great. The mystery is wonderful, and the atmosphere almost gothic. A wonderful read during October.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2015/10/book-review-hound-of-baskervilles-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.