BookWyrm

Social Reading and Reviewing

Decentralized

Friendly

Anti-Corporate

BookWyrm logo

Talk about books, track your reading, share it with your friends and manage your virtual shelf.

BookWyrm is ad-free, anti-corporate, and federated. You can seamlessly follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances, and on services like Mastodon. It is an amazing alternative for sites like Goodreads.

Welcome to this friendly instance by tchncs.de from germany. It is intended to be used in english and german language.

Join BookWyrm

Choose wisely! Your username cannot be changed.

Recent Books

James L. Cambias: Jejich moře (Paperback, Czech language, 2020, Planeta9) 4 stars

Jejich moře

by

Ledový měsíc Ilmatar leží na hranici poznaného vesmíru. V temných hlubinách se nerozléhá jen všudypřítomné praskání ledu. Hluboká temnota kypí životem. Vědecká expedice na podmořské stanici Hitode zkoumá podivuhodné formy života i prastarou místní kulturu. Ve jménu civilizace ale přichází i další návštěvníci. Moře pod ledem se nečekaně stává centrálním …

James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (Hardcover, 1998, Yale University Press) 3 stars

Seeing Like a State

by

Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.