A Promised Land

By Barack Obama (2020) Pages: 701, Final-verdict: Great-read How does it feel to be the President of the United States? In this first of two volumes of his memoir, Barack Obama brings the reader a human view of the office - the feelings, the responsibility, and the family challenges -... Read more

Politics Autobiography

A History of Modern Computing

By Paul E. Ceruzzi (2010) Pages: 445, Final verdict: Great-read There are currently more than 22 billion computing devices in the world. They are everywhere, in laptops, smartphones, cars, and are used in all areas of the economy. But unlike many of the technologies we use today, computers are a... Read more

History

Shores Beyond Shores

By Irene Butter (2018) Pages: 445, Final verdict: Must-read Like so many Jewish families, the life of the Hasenbergs was shaken as the Nazis rose to power in Germany. In Shores beyond Shores, Irene Butter walks us, in the first person, through her family’s terrorizing experience during World War... Read more

History Autobiography

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez (2019) Pages: 411, Final verdict: Must-read Reading about discrimination, unfair labour, and prejudice against women became normal. We can surprisingly see that gender inequality is still hardly understood by many following such reports. The same people claiming that significant progress has been made are those who... Read more

Sociology

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman (2019) Pages: 400, Final verdict: Great-read Rutger Bregman is not your average historian. 32, Dutch, he rose to fame with his 2014 best-seller Utopia for Realists, where he shared his thesis for reconstructing modern society with "utopian" like universal basic income or a shorter workweek.... Read more