Best (overlooked) books 2010
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Well, not all of them were entirely overlooked, but we definitely read them during 2010. Inside Story contributors nominate the best overlooked books of 2010 - the books you might not have heard about but are worth considering for holiday reading. Nicholas Farrelly reviews the book ' Nothing to envy: love, life and death in North Korea' by Barbara Demick, published by Harper Collins, Sydney, 2010; Sylvia Lawson reviews the book 'Not entitled' by Frank Kermode, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999; Jennifer Doggett reviews the book 'The rational optimist' by Matt Ridley, published by Fourth Estate, London, 2010; Danielle Chubb reviews the book 'The idea of justice' by Amartya Sen, published by Penguin, London, 2010; Andrew Lynch reviews the book 'The flight of the intellectuals' by Paul Berman, published by Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2010; Nicholas Gruen reviews the book 'Obliquity: why our goals are best achieved indirectly' by John Kay, published by Profile Books, 2010; Julian Thomas reviews the book 'Pirate modernity: Delhi’s media urbanism' by Ravi Sundaram, published by Routledge, 2009; Melissa Sweet reviews the book 'My blood’s country' by Fiona Capp, published by Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2010; Jock Given reviews the book 'The Lady Matador’s Hotel' by Cristina García, published by Scribner, 2010; Jill Kitson reviews the book 'Troubles' by J. G. Farrell, published by Phoenix House, 1993; Ben Eltham reviews the book 'Four fish: the story of fishing and what's left to eat' by Paul Greenberg, published by Penguin, Camberwell, 2010; Richard Johnstone reviews the book 'The flavour thesaurus: pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook' by Niki Segnit, published by Bloomsbury, London, 2010; James Scambary reviews the book 'Locus Solus' by Raymond Roussel, published in 1914; Stephanie Younane Brookes reviews the book 'Noah’s compass' by Anne Tyler, published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2009; Peter Mares reviews the book 'Transport for suburbia: beyond the automobile age' by Paul Mees, published by Earthscan, London, 2010; David Hayes reviews the book 'Passport to Peking: a very British mission to Mao’s China' by Patrick Wright, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010; Graeme Orr reviews the book 'Fields of Glory' by Jean Rouaud, published by Arcade Publishing, New York, 1993; Lesley Russell reviews the book 'My father’s paradise: a son's search for his family’s past' by Ariel Sabar, published by Algonquin Books, 2008; Scott Ewing reviews the book 'When the lights went out' by Andy Beckett, published by Faber & Faber, London, 2009; Peter Browne reviews the book 'The Checklist Manifesto' by Atul Gawande, published by Profile, London, 2010; Glenn Nicholls reviews the book 'Snowed under' by Antje Rávic Strubel, published by Red Hen, 2008; John Langmore reviews the book 'Europe: a history' by Norman Davies, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996; Terry Lane reviews the book 'Hero: the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia' by Michael Korda, published by Harper Collins, New York, 2010; Frank Bongiorno reviews the book 'The end of the party' by Andrew Rawnsley, published by Penguin, 2011; Savitri Taylor reviews the book 'The idea of justice' byAmartya Sen, published by Penguin, London, 2010; Norman Abjorensen reviews the book ' They called him Old Smoothie' by Peter Golding, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2009; Sara Dowse reviews the book 'Erasing Iraq: the human costs of carnage' by Michael Otterman, Richard Hil and Paul Wilson, published by Pluto Press, London, 2010; Brian McFarlane reviews the book 'Arguments with England' by Michael Blakemore, published by Faber & Faber, London, 2005; John Besemeres reviews the book 'Reflections on the revolution in Europe: immigration, Islam and the West' by Christopher Caldwell, published by Penguin, London, 2010; Dennis Altman reviews the book 'The end of the World Book' by Alistair McCartney, published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2008; Tom Griffiths reviews the book 'A three-cornered life' by Jim Davidson, published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2010; Chris Bonnor reviews the book 'More than luck: ideas Australia needs now' edited by Mark Davis and Miriam Lyons, published by the Centre for Policy Development, Sydney, 2010; Christina Crossley Ratcliffe reviews the book 'Against the odds' by Marjolijn Hof , published by Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2009.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".