Reviewing books online since 1992, covering everything except horror fiction and theology.
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Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City… (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
ALT Red book cover. Top half, all in capitals, white "BIKE CITY", black "AMSTERDAM", small white "HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE CYCLING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD". Bottom half, black and white photo of a woman cycling, sticking her tongue out towards the photographer, above black "FRED FEDDES" and white "in collaboration with Marjolein de Lange - UITGEVERIJ BAS LUBBERHUIZEN".
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_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare… (my review)
ALT Green book cover with stylised hare (blue and green with yellow flowers/plants on it) on a yellow-orange circle. Author "ARTO PAASILINAA" top-right, with blurb "A change-your-life novel" (New York Magazine) beneath it, and title "THE YEAR OF THE HARE" bottom-right.
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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be (Martin Williams) - my review dannyreviews.com/h/Sahara_Gr… (@princetonupress.bsky.social 2021)
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"_Emergent Tokyo_ begins with a typology of Tokyo neighbourhoods, but its core is a detailed examination of five specific phenomena: yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets, and dense low-rise neighbourhoods." dannyreviews.com/h/Emergent_…
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@JDHamkins has produced a glorious grand tour of the philosophy of mathematics dannyreviews.com/h/Lectures_… @mitpress
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Went through the "blogroll" (remember those) on my site and removed all the dead links & departed bloggers. Had to consolidate into a single list as blogging is a dying art. Well done to the few who carry the flame onward... @DannyReviews @Wetdarkandwild especially.
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@dsquareddigest offers "a light-hearted and entertaining look at financial fraud, with a serious core" dannyreviews.com/h/Lying_Mon…
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: a novel of mathematical obsession dannyreviews.com/h/Uncle_Pet… (my review)
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Transport Matters: seventeen essays on British transport policy dannyreviews.com/h/Transport… (my review)
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State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives: entwined from antiquity dannyreviews.com/h/State_Rel… (my review)
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The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War: short stories by Serge Pey dannyreviews.com/h/Treasure_… (my review)
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Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel: the boundary between elementary and advanced dannyreviews.com/h/Elements_… (my review)
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Iran: A Modern History: from the Safavids to Khomeini dannyreviews.com/h/Iran.html (my review)
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Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality dannyreviews.com/h/Building_… (my review)
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Vincent's Starry Night + A Journey Through Art: art history for children dannyreviews.com/h/Art_Histo… (my review)
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Visual Complex Analysis: a genuinely geometric perspective dannyreviews.com/h/Visual_Co… (my review)
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Math Art - Beautiful Geometry - Bilder der Mathematik: three books on mathematics and art/visualisation dannyreviews.com/h/Math_Art_… (my review)
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The Invisible Killer + Clearing the Air: two books on air pollution dannyreviews.com/h/Invisible… (my review)
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The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English dannyreviews.com/h/Origins_A… (my review)
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The Stolen Bicycle: a spiralling Taiwanese exploration of memory and history dannyreviews.com/h/Stolen_Bi… (my review)