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Renato Coutinho rated On Writing Well: 5 stars
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is …
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a 2015 book by anthropologist David …
Renato Coutinho rated A morte e a morte de Quincas Berro D'água: 4 stars
Renato Coutinho rated The Wizard: 4 stars
Renato Coutinho rated Capital in the Twenty-First Century: 5 stars
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer, Ilse Utz, and 1 other
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (French: Le Capital au XXIe siècle) is the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas …
Renato Coutinho rated The Undercover Economist: 4 stars
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
The Undercover Economist (ISBN 0-19-518977-9) (ISBN 0345494016) is a book by Tim Harford published in 2005 by Little, Brown. The …
Renato Coutinho rated The Democracy Project: 4 stars
The Democracy Project by David Graeber
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world--democracy--and the story of how radical democracy can yet …
Renato Coutinho rated Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas: 5 stars
Renato Coutinho rated Dom Casmurro: 4 stars
Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Clássicos da Literatura Brasileira, #4)
Renato Coutinho rated Crime and Punishment: 5 stars
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupléniye i nakazániye, IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ …
Renato Coutinho rated David Copperfield: 4 stars
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield is a novel in the bildungsroman genre by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his …
Renato Coutinho rated Quantum mechanics and path integrals: 4 stars
Richard P. Feynman: Quantum mechanics and path integrals (1965, McGraw-Hill)
Quantum mechanics and path integrals by Richard P. Feynman (International series in pure and applied physics)
Renato Coutinho rated The Great Gatsby: 3 stars
The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the …
Renato Coutinho rated Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics): 5 stars
Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of …