I Read Many Things

Tag: Non-Fiction

  • Origins : How Earth’s History Shaped Human History, by Lewis Dartnell

    It’s easy to look at the title of that book and think “Well that seems like a rather obvious statement of fact” and go on your way. In some respect, it is. No sane person will disagree that our planet and its physical characteristics have influenced humans in many ways. A quick look at a…

  • Think Again : The Power of Knowing What We Don’t Know, by Adam Grant

    “Knowing what you don’t know.” Those few words were all I needed to want to read this book. As someone who absolutely LOVES to learn about anything and everything, I’ve always been fascinated by the process of learning, how knowledge can evolve, the value of questioning and doubting. In other words, I am the perfect…

  • Cosmos, by Carl Sagan

    By now you’ve figured out that I really enjoy the work of science communicators. The teacher in me appreciates how some experts manage to explain complex subjects in a clear and accessible vocabulary. For a lot of people, the term science communicator is synonymous with Carl Sagan, who delighted the generation before mine with the…

  • Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    This book was had been in my bookshelf for over a decade. I bought it in 2012, when it was re-released as a movie tie-in when Lincoln came to theaters, as you can see from the picture above. Yet I’ve never read it before this year. Maybe I was just swept by the marketing behind…

  • It’s a Numberful World, by Eddie Woo (fr)

    Eddie Woo est un enseignant de mathématiques australien qui s’est fait connaitre il y a quelques années grâce à ses leçons qu’il publie en ligne sur une plateforme bien connue. On n’a qu’à regarder son contenu pendant quelques secondes pour comprendre pourquoi. Sa passion pour le sujet et son talent pour expliquer très simplement plusieurs…

  • Existential Physics, by Sabine Hossenfelder

    Working with children, I get to hear a lot of questions. More importantly, I get asked a lot of questions I certainly don’t have the answer to, either because I just do not have the required knowledge, or simply because there is actually no answer. A good example I heard this year is “Was there…

  • When the Body Says No : The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Gabor Maté

    The very first article I wrote here was about Gabor Maté’s “Scattered Minds”, a fantastic book about ADHD. It’s the book that pushed me to go on this little blog project that I had been entertaining for a few months beforehand. Naturally, any other book written by the same author would catch my eye. “When The…

  • Smart Brevity, by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz

    HOW TO WRITE SO PEOPLE READ. Data shows reading habits have changed, so must the way we write. Axios founders present guidelines to help us write so people will want to read. Office e-mails, newsletters, articles, reports and others have to be more efficient. Here’s a quick look at what I learned from it. WHAT…

  • Origin Story : A Big History of Everything, by David Christian

    I was introduced to historian David Christian back when I was started my training to become a Montessori teacher, more than seven years ago. We watched his TED talk, as our trainer told us his approach to history was similar to what we promote in the Montessori pedagogy. Indeed, the author is a figurehead of…

  • Insoluble mais vrai! par David Louapre

    Friand comme je le suis de chaines YouTube de vulgarisation scientifique, je suis éventuellement tombé sur la chaine française Science Étonnante. Bien que le style de celle-ci soit un peu plus mesuré et réservé que j’en ai l’habitude, il demeure que la qualité des explications est superbe. Bref, lorsque j’ai croisé cet ouvrage dans la…