Science & Math
Review:I'll be honest, the book starts off rather slowly. William tells of his childhood in Africa that ranges from the death of an uncle to the famine that struck his land. Once the book picks up, basically when he begins to actually build the windmill, the back story makes a lot more sense. In the end, it is quite difficult to not be enamored with what this young man manages to accomplish with limited resources. Overall, it is a very good read. If you are looking for an inspiring story then this is o... Read more
Review:This is an elegant presentation of one of the most solidly supported theories in science. "The Science Guy" shows us clear, objective, abundant evidence for evolution, despite the often hostile rejection of these truths by much of American culture. It is as beautiful and awe-inspiring a story of the origins of life as those found in any mythology or religious doctrine. Read more
Review:Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the best, and Space Chronicles is a fantastic read! Plenty of history, well blended with Tyson's unstoppable passion for space technology and exploration. I read the whole thing, from cover to cover, and send it to my best friend. Read more
Review:This is a first-rate example of how to write about science for a general audience. Its good-humored and fair account of the controversy over whether Pluto is a planet, a Trans-Neptunian object, a Kuiper body, or any or all of the above is gripping and fascinating. I cannot praise Neil deGrasse Tyson too highly. He has justified his claim to be the successor to the late, great Carl Sagan, who would have applauded THE PLUTO FILES. Read more
Review:The book is indeed BRIEF and I was mildly shocked when it arrived. My last physics book was easily 20 times heavier. The author no doubt knows his subject matter and has a gift for language and simplification. He even waxes poetic at times. Perhaps it's no accident he is Italian. I frankly cannot imagine an English or German physicist being so lyrical - nor brief.
The lessons as such are really not "lessons" in the sense of what you get at graduate school or even college. The reason for t... Read more
Review:This book may appeal to those who desire an armchair philosophy to wrap around their atheism,… but not to those expecting anything approaching a physics lecture, or even to those who have a familiarity with philosophy of mind, or philosophy of physics.
While I sympathize with the general ontology presented,… what Carroll calls “Poetic Naturalism”,… a kind scientific justified philosophy,…… the book itself is too verbose. It does not present enough physics detail to maintain interest. It d... Read more
Review:Enjoyable read, fun and interesting, Not overbearing or too technical to enjoy. Neil is a great writer and this is essentially a collection of essays from his published work in magazines. A wide collection of interesting topics, Read more
Review:Somehow a review I wrote of an excellent product was posted for this.
This item was not what it was supposed to be, it was a poorly arranged and abridged version of the original book.
I am going to try to return it. Read more
Review:A truly heroic effort to compile a history of physics from the pre-Greeks to the present, at least the first part of which should be accessible to the educated reader who is willing to expend a little mental effort. By and large, the book is successful in setting forth the thinking of the early natural philosophers Democritus (460-370BC), Plato (427-347BC), Aristotle (384-322BC) and their contemporaries and in describing the importance of the ideas of Galileo (1564-1642), Newton (1643-1727), F... Read more
Review:For those skeptical of supernatural claims and theistic versions of Buddhism, Robert Wright continues the quest that his earlier books such as The Moral Animal and The Evolution of God began. These titles hint at Wright's terrain, where fact and speculation, the tangible and the experiential, blur. He explores in Why Buddhism Is True the worldview that in the time of the historical Buddha, could not have been clearly expressed in pre-scientific, and very pre-Darwinian terms to human mindsets.