My main trades and areas of interest before climate change mitigation and sustainable development are international business and management. This brought me to focus early on India. So when I discovered today’s book via The Daily Show with Jon Stewart I knew I had to read what promised to be a fantastic book on India’s […]
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I recently finished reading the Pulitzer winning book Guns, Germs and Steel (GGS) by Jared Diamond. Like the latest book of the author – read my review of Collapse – I believe this is an absolute must read. This is a magisterial lesson on history and how Mankind evolved during 13,000 years from small groups
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I finished in January the last part of the Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. After two months I still keep thinking about this book and its great plot, fantastic characters and awesome story telling. If my favorite book for 2007 was Collapse, there is no doubt that the Mars Trilogy will be the books I
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I finished reading this week THE book I would recommend on the current energy and climate issues. Its author – Thomas Friedman – is a columnist for the New York Times and received three times the Pulitzer Prize. To him, the various crises we are facing should not only be considered as a threat but
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Last month I finished Green Mars, the second part of the Mars Trilogy by famous US sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson. After the first book, this one is even better and longer. I always liked the science fiction genre as well as sciences – both social and hard ones – and truly loved this book
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Last month I finished a fantastic science fiction book I had been reading for three months. As it is the first part of a trilogy, I think I will stay on the Red planet for a long time. Kim Stanley Robinson is a sheer genius and if you like sci-fi, I strongly recommend you reading
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Nouveau logo, nouvelle maquette, nouveau site Internet mais toujours la même passion pour l’astronomie, le magazine Ciel & Espace revient encore plus fort. J’étais avant de lire ce mensuel plutôt intéressé par l’astronomie, mais depuis que je le retrouve dans ma boite aux lettres chaque mois, c’est une véritable passion. Je détaillerai dans l’article d’aujourd’hui
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J’ai fini le mois dernier Odeur du temps par Jean d’Ormesson de l’Académie Française. Excellent à plus d’un titre, il constitue selon moi un must. Un véritable plaidoyer pour la lecture, c’est ce que propose cet ouvrage qui est un recueil d’articles que l’auteur a publié notamment dans le Figaro des années 1970 à nos
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Au sommaire de Terra Economica ce mois-ci, on peut lire entre autres une série d’articles très intéressante sur l’isolation des bâtiments en France. Un sujet passionnant pour moi depuis que je m’ intéresse à ce sujet primordial depuis la rédaction de mon mémoire de Master. Terra Economica prouve encore ce mois-ci qu’un autre monde, plus
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David Bowie once sung that there is Life on Mars, but scientifically this has to be proved. However, there are already avalanches of carbon dioxide ice. The picture on the left was taken last month by a NASA mission. It shows clearly that such a phenomenon occurs in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet. This
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