Review: Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16641082-writing-systems http://libgen.org/search.php?req=coulmas+writing&open=0&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def I read this book as part of background reading for my bachelor (which im writing here) after seeing it referred to in a few other books. As a…

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An Introduction to Toxicology (Burcham, Philip C.)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19824663-an-introduction-to-toxicology   http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3b495b4fd548e7574a0ec998f22afac6&open=0   Friend of mine wants me to write a book chapter or two in his book advocating nuclear energy. Specifically, a chapter about toxicology and dose response…

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Review: Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Ilya Somin)

This book is a quick read and covers the area decently well. The major drawback is that it doesnt discuss deliberative democracy or liquid democracy. IMO this book is not…

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Review of Introduction to psycholinguistics, Understanding Language Science by MJ Traxler

Overall an interesting introduction. Some chapters were much more interesting to me than others, which were somewhere between kinda boring and boring. Generally, the book is way too light on…

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Review: Bad Pharma

https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/19171192-bad-pharma-how-drug-companies-mislead-doctors-and-harm-patients http://lib.free-college.org/view.php?id=864114   Having already read Peter Gøtzsche's Dødelig medicin og organiseret kriminalitet: Hvordan medicinalindustrien har korrumperet sundhedsvæsenet. Art People, 2013, this book did not bring so much new. However,…

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Review: The raising of intelligence

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17772014-raising-of-intelligence-the Spitz, Herman H. The raising of intelligence: A selected history of attempts to raise retarded intelligence. 1986. http://bookos.org/book/2175637/d00805 Very useful book. I had read about it in multiple sources.…

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Review: Genes, Peoples, and Languages

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331816.Genes_Peoples_and_Languages http://lib.free-college.org/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=GENES%2C+PEOPLES+AND++LANGUAGES+&submit=Dig+for   I read it mostly becus i cudnt find his more critically acclaimed book online (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404414.The_History_and_Geography_of_Human_Genes).   The book is written in low-level nonfiction, i.e. very few academic…

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