Book Reviews June 2012

The information diet Clay Johnson O'Reilly, 2012 ISBN: 1449304680 We're surrounded by sources of information, but somehow we don't seem to find out what matters. In The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption Clay Johnson claims that we're getting junk information, and just as in the case of food, we need to be careful to consume the information we need. Continued..

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Plight of the fortune tellers Riccardo Rebonato Princeton University Press, 2007 ISBN: 0691148171 Banks have lost huge amounts of money in the last few years, but why? They were subject to regulations and employed risk managers, and so things shouldn't have got anything like so bad. Why did things go so wrong? In Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently Riccardo Rebonato gives his explanation. Continued..

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The construction of the heavens Michael Hoskin Cambridge University Press, 2012 ISBN: 1107018382 The work of William Herschel was part of a watershed in the study of cosmology, where rather than being uniform and static, the universe began to be seen as subject to change and containing a heirarchy of structures. In The Construction of the Heavens: William Herschel's Cosmology Michael Hoskin tells of Herschel's contribution. Continued..

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