Comments on: Massive Holiday Shopping Suggestions for Science and Technology Nerds https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/12/03/massive-holiday-shopping-suggestions-for-science-and-technology-nerds/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 15:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/12/03/massive-holiday-shopping-suggestions-for-science-and-technology-nerds/#comment-955087 Sun, 05 Dec 2021 04:07:00 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34259#comment-955087 In reply to Christopher Winter.

Yes, those would be pre-orders. So maybe a later holiday?

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/12/03/massive-holiday-shopping-suggestions-for-science-and-technology-nerds/#comment-954883 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:13:14 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34259#comment-954883 These suggestions all look great, Greg, except that the python book won’t be released until January 2022, and the Practical SQL book until March.

You might want to look at Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky, although it’s been out for a while. Here’s a Washington Post review:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/11/kolbert-white-sky/

Then, Powell’s list of the best nonfiction books of 2021 has four titles that look good:

Of Time and Water
Icebound
Islands of Abandonment, and
No Planet B, an anthology for young adults.

https://www.powells.com/post/lists/best-books-of-2021-nonfiction

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