The Lost Colophon

Richard Thwaites reviews books that promise something new on politics, history or interesting people.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Praise to the Cult of Speculation - at whose expense?

THE PHYSICS OF WALL STREET : A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable, by James Owen Weatherall, Scribe, 286pp. Reviewe...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Grasping the universe, with mathematics

THE UNIVERSE WITHIN, by Neil Turok, Allen & Unwin, 294pp. To write a book about infinity is tough, and to review it is not ea...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Those sailor-explorers were tough - like Matthew Flinders

FLINDERS: The Man who Mapped Australia, by Rob Mundle, Hachette, 386pp. Reviewed: 19 January 2013 When I was reading this book, I was appa...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Corporate Spying Undermines Capitalism

MURDOCH'S PIRATES, by Neil Chenoweth, Allen & Unwin, 402pp. Reviewed: December 2012 If you believe that democracy an...

Monday, November 26, 2012

A Challenge to the Economics Profession

GITTINS' GOSPEL: The economics of just about everything, by Ross Gittins, Allen & Unwin, 312pp. Reviewed: 24 November ...

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Ocean Issues not just for greenies

OCEAN OF LIFE : How Our Seas are Changing, by Callum Roberts, Allen Lane , 390pp. Reviewed: 19 September I was readi...

Monday, August 27, 2012

What can we learn from the London Underground?

UNDERGROUND OVERGROUND: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, by Andrew Martin, Profile Books, 304pp. Railway books have such a ...

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RichardNThwaites: Richard Thwaites has worked as a journalist, publisher, public sector manager, adviser to Australian governments, program chair in international organisations, consultant in communications policy and technology, and board director on community organisations. His book reviews were published over several years in the Canberra Times, the newspaper of Australia's national capital.

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