The Reading Room

Each month a member of the team reviews a book of their choosing, irrelevant of genre or publishing date.

The order of time

Carol Rovelli

Published: 2018 (English edition), Penguin Books

Over the last 150 years, our understanding about time and space has undergone a radical transformation. In ‘The Order of Time’, the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, explores the illusion of time, calling it the “greatest mystery”.

Investing – The last liberal art

Robert G. Hagstrom

Published: 2013, Columbia University Press

Liberal arts is a study of history, literature, writing, philosophy, sociology, psychology, creative arts and more. The objective of this book is to encourage investors to increase their knowledge of other disciplines in order to facilitate better decision

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Melanie Mitchell

Published: 2019, Pelican

Questions such as will AI take over the world, cause mass unemployment, make humans obsolete or create a Marxist utopia feel like they are in abundance today.