Book 6: Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential by Dr. Carol S. Dweck - 288 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset ( Read more... )

Book 18: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women who helped win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly - 328 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program ( Read more... )

Book 9: Griffith Review 51: Fixing the System edited by Julianne Schultz and Anne Tiernan - 326 pages

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Griffith Review 51- Fixing the System sets out to examine Australia's political and social system and to investigate why so many believe it to be unfit for purpose. While Australia has never been richer, its ( Read more... )

That might be the worst possible outcome of the New Sensitivity on Campus, as evaluated by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.  It appears at page 205: if there are too many microaggressions and triggers in a law school discussion of ( Read more... )

I've had M. K. Beran's Pathology of the Elites: How the Arrogant Classes Plan to Run Your Life in the stack of read but not reviewed books for some time.  His recent "Yale Law School Devours Its Own" prompted me to fish it out and get Book Review No. 27 into pixel form ( Read more... )

Book Review No. 25 is Amir Aczel's Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem.  The book is short, readable, and full of all sorts of mathematics lore, although "unlocking the secret" is still left to the reader as an exercise.  (The exercise is below the jump.)
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This year marks the bicentennials of Illinois statehood and of the birth of Karl Marx.  I'll resist the "tragedy" and "farce" temptations tempting me, and offer what I hope is a straightforward Book Review No. 12 of the bicentennial edition of Terry Eagleton's Why Marx Was Right.
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