Ed Cooke Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Creating fun things: Language learning: https://t.co/HYtfFBjljC Spherical concert-halls: https://t.co/hZtRrDFsgR
Swift
Alec MerrillEd CookeProud to report that Memrise's first ever native iOS developer Gio Lodi (who joined us back in 2012) has written a book on Test-driven development in Swift. Give it a read if Swift is your bag! https://t.co/bjP1dxIRvN
Hardcover, 2013
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The Temple of Nature: Or, The Origin of Society. A Poem With Philosophical Notes
Erasmus DarwinEd CookeTIL: Erasmus Darwin, Charles' grandad, had his own theory of evolution, which he expressed in verse in the Temple of Nature. It's pretty good: https://t.co/RrqDDgb1QE
Paperback, 2021
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. LevitinEd Cooke4/ But years later I'd learn that the musical high-low association is constructed. The Ancient Greeks had it the other way round... Perhaps cos of the orientation of their stringed instruments: a great exploration of this is in "This is your brain on music" by Daniel Levitin https://t.co/EZ6pmejl9q
Paperback, 2007
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On the Origin of Species Illustrated: Evolution
Charles DarwinEd CookeTIL: Erasmus Darwin, Charles' grandad, had his own theory of evolution, which he expressed in verse in the Temple of Nature. It's pretty good: https://t.co/RrqDDgb1QE
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Thou Shall Not Try Me. Mood 24: 7
James AndersonEd CookeIn the long evening of James Anderson’s career, it’s days like to day that make one dewy eyed with affection. 3 for 62 from 27 overs with 9 maidens in a NZ total of 553 in which the other bowlers managed 7 / 471 at more than four an over.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel
John Le CarréEd CookeAstonishing to read this letter from John Le Carré to Alex Guinness re his role in the BBC's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. And then to watch Guinness in action in this representative sequence: https://t.co/Cefe0SCnuZ So spot on as to be scarcely believable https://t.co/RR9CVpaW1U
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