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Sorry about the re-post; I thought I could make a poll voteable for non-logged-in users.
So, since I have POLLS and I have heard rumors of free time coming forth sometime in the future (??? what is that), you get to pick which nonfiction book I read next!
Now, some of these are stuffs I picked up from local bookstore pop-ups, so they're translated into Finnish, often with shorter titles. The stuff translated by Kimmo Pietiläinen is published by Terra Cognita, which a) is the best name for a nonfiction publisher ever, and b) actually prints the translator's name on the cover.
H2O would be mere pleasure reading, I suspect, as would The Poison Paradox; with Made to Measure, I'll either give it to a relative as a "this is what I do at work" after reading it or keep it as SF reference/inspiration for its not-my-field sections. Copernicus Complex may give something new on philosophy or its intersection with cosmology – or I might ragequit because the popular science is too popular and I have a degree already. Chemistry at the Frontier looks like it's be a bit deeper into qualitative chemistry than I currently am plus bridge some gaps. The Ghost Map concerns sewage systems and cholera, which I have no knowledge on.
So, since I have POLLS and I have heard rumors of free time coming forth sometime in the future (??? what is that), you get to pick which nonfiction book I read next!
Poll #19151 pick-a-book
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5
Of EP's books, which one sounds the interestingest?
View Answers
Ball, Philip. H2O: A Biography of Water
0 (0.0%)
Ball, Philip. Made to Measure: Materials for the 21st Century (tr. Kimmo Pietiläinen)
1 (20.0%)
Ball, Philip. Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier (tr. Kimmo Pietiläinen)
0 (0.0%)
Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map
3 (60.0%)
Scharf, Caleb. The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities (tr. Tuukka Perhoniemi)
0 (0.0%)
Timbrell, John. The Poison Paradox: Chemicals and Friend and Foe (tr. Kimmo Pietiläinen)
1 (20.0%)
Now, some of these are stuffs I picked up from local bookstore pop-ups, so they're translated into Finnish, often with shorter titles. The stuff translated by Kimmo Pietiläinen is published by Terra Cognita, which a) is the best name for a nonfiction publisher ever, and b) actually prints the translator's name on the cover.
H2O would be mere pleasure reading, I suspect, as would The Poison Paradox; with Made to Measure, I'll either give it to a relative as a "this is what I do at work" after reading it or keep it as SF reference/inspiration for its not-my-field sections. Copernicus Complex may give something new on philosophy or its intersection with cosmology – or I might ragequit because the popular science is too popular and I have a degree already. Chemistry at the Frontier looks like it's be a bit deeper into qualitative chemistry than I currently am plus bridge some gaps. The Ghost Map concerns sewage systems and cholera, which I have no knowledge on.