I had actually obtained this book shortly after arriving in Canada at the age of eight. I think it was either a gift or a hand-me-down, but I don’t remember exactly how I got it… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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I suppose that this post is a continuation of the one on old software and books.
The Turing programming language (named after Alan Turing) was developed at the University of Toronto as an introductory language for teaching computer programming at the high school level. It was (and apparently still is) widely used in Ontario… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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Continuing on the Nazi theme established by the two previous posts, today we have Warren Kinsella’s Web of Hate, which is about Canada’s “far right” network, a book that was controversial when it was first published and continues to be controversial today… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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This post continues the series on “a life in books”.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer, is one of the standard reference books on World War II. The book that I owned was actually the illustrated and abridged version of this work. Abridged versions of books are very rarely better than the original, but this one is an exception, due to the inclusion of many large high-quality colour photographs which the non-abridged edition does not have… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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I recently gave away, sold, donated to a library, or threw out many of the books that I’ve accumulated throughout my life. Before I parted with each book, I took a photograph of it. (I apparently forgot to do this for a few of them, and for some others, the photographs did not turn out.)
The reason that I had (actually, still have) so many books is that I love reading, and for many years I was in a position where people would consult me on various subjects. In high school, people often asked me for my recommendations on general science books, and my teachers would also discuss them with me… » [Expand post] [Permalink]