Oddly and interestingly, Amazon.ca has a different list that the US parent.
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity & Hope by William Kamkwamba
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
- Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- Green Metropolis by David Owen
- Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Rubin
- Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis by Alanna Mitchell
This is one of the last lists I'll do for 2009 -- there are one or two more that will come later in the year but most of the lists that will be published have been. As such, I most likely have enough data such that in the coming days I'll be compiling all the books from all the lists and coming out with a master list of the lists. Should be interesting to see which books were popular enough to appear on multiple year's best lists.
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Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is the Holiday Reading list from the Toronto Star Public Policy Forum, picked from individual lists in today's print newspaper.
I wasn't really sure of quite how to start this off. I finally decided to just dive right in with a simple function definition, and then give you a bit of a tour of how Haskell works by showing the different ways of implementing it.
Along with tacky an inescapable Christmas music, December brings lists, as every publication that deals with music at all puts out their own compilation of songs or albums of the year.
Humans readily establish false memories. If you give adults a study list of words like hot, snow, warm, winter, ice, wet, chilly, weather, heat, freeze, shiver, frost, and then test them later, they will "remember" related words like cold that weren't actually on the list.
Mostly because of their affordability, I would say the "EasyTerms" series on scientific terminology belongs on this list. People can, of course, do a web search to find out about them.