Random books from eihek's library
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Words And Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Science Masters) by Steven Pinker
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker
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Favorite authorsRichard Dawkins, Daniel C Dennet, Jared Diamond, Stephen Pinker (Shared favorites)
About meI'm a computer scientist/software developer, age 44, who lived (more or less) the first half of life so far in Norway (Oslo region), second half in England (Cambridge, London), and the last two years in Catalonia (Barcelona), where as far as I am concerned I intend to stay forever. I'm in a very long and very happy gay relationship with Josep-Anton. I'm learning Catalan, and enjoy mountain walking and photography.
About my libraryMy most favourite reading tends to be from the "upper reaches" of popular science non-fiction: biology (evolution, genetics), physics (quantum theory, cosmology), lingustics, computing, chemistry, mathematics, ...
I guess my favourite authors would be the likes of Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Daniel Dennet, Stephen Pinker, ...
Only problem with living in Barcelona is that it is not so easy to find new books from these and similar authors in English in the bookshops any more, and waiting for them to appear in Catalan translation is not always that fruitful unfortunately. Obviously, with the internet... but it's not the same as popping into a large bookshop (like Foyle's, Waterstone's and Blackwell in London) and browsing the shelves.
Inevitably, I also have a large collection of technical computer books, and a "legacy" collection of comic books from the early years, not least a near-complete collection of pocket-sized Peanuts :-)
Real nameEirik Hektoen
LocationBarcelona, Catalonia
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Member sinceFeb 2, 2009
Currently readingTHE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION. by Charles Darwin
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eihek reviewed, rated, added:The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin (read review) eihek reviewed, rated, added:A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert Laughlin (read review) |




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