Huey rated Interesting Times: 3 stars
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (18))
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially …
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Huey rated Masters of mankind: 5 stars
Masters of mankind by Noam Chomsky
"In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines …
Huey rated Defending the Lion City: 4 stars
Defending the Lion City by Tim Huxley (Armed forces of Asia series)
Huey rated The Snowden files: 4 stars
The Snowden files by Luke Harding
"IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the …
What if? by Randall Munroe
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, …
Huey rated When to Rob a Bank: 4 stars
When to Rob a Bank by Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven J. Levitt
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics FreakonomicsOver the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen …
Huey rated Good Omens: 5 stars
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
Huey rated Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data: 4 stars
Huey rated Microtrends: 4 stars
Microtrends by Mark J. Penn, Mark Penn, E. Kinney Zalesne
Pollster Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. …
Huey rated The Chamber: 4 stars
The Chamber by John Grisham
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal …
Huey rated The honest truth about dishonesty: 4 stars
Huey rated Superfreakonomics: 2 stars
Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and …
Huey rated The Hobbit: 3 stars
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The great modern classic and prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated by Alan Lee
Smaug certainly looked …
Huey rated The Da Vinci Code: 4 stars
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The …