Review:I very much enjoyed this entertaining and delightful collection of lectures, talks and essays by the world-renown and sorely missed Professor Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist, idiosyncratic genius and one of the great men of the twentieth century.

I particularly enjoyed the subtle yet unmistakable way he scolded the people at NASA for putting their political butts before the safety of the space program they were managing in his famous "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger... Read more

Review:This book tells a frightening story in a readable style although fewer long lists would have not gone amiss. A central moral of this story is that decision makers mostly don't know what they don't know like all of us. But in the case of rust the cost is staggering. Read more

Review:Susan Orlean obviously did a lot of research, which is spewed back at the reader. Sadly, the book is a confused cross between local history and cultural analysis. Reads like an extended version of a lesser New Yorker piece. That said,I did learn how to transport orchids after primary bloom. Read more

Review:Good book for the most part. It explains things well, with some instances where you really need to read closely to understand what they are talking about. They give lots of example problems in this book. The examples are nice, but sometimes they don't seem to follow a logical order and they are hard to follow what the author did to get the answers. Wiley Plus is a program that goes along with the book and it is very expensive. If you need it, it is almost better to buy the book brand new wi... Read more

Review:This was a fairly interesting book. From what I gather about Freakenomics (a book I have never read but heard much about) this book seems to try to be a sports take on that. I can say that it did bring some interesting points to me however I felt that in a lot of cases the information was far too broad in scope and some of the conclusions they seemed to bring about were not fully justified.

The main point that they bring home, quite successfully I might add, is that the best way to look a... Read more

Review:This is a highly rated undergraduate textbook on classical mechanics. The best feature of this book is that it is written for a sophomore. It only expects students who have taken a year on general physics, and assumes the mathematical background of a typical sophomore. Since classical mechanics is the first serious course in the Physics curriculum, this book presents a very readable and logical book for the students at the right level. Other textbooks, for example Read more

Review:DONT BUY THIS BOOK. I read all the reviews before I did and I thought this book would be an amazing addendum to my self work...then I hit a speedbump. Waldemen & Newberg's stance on anger is disappointing. Anger is an emotional reaction that needs to be dealt with. Unfortunately, he does not recommend any strategies..but dismisses it as some aberration that we are afflicted with and he himself has it.....or at least reflects it in his handling of a story about a business and a therapist. I f... Read more

Review:What a very smart and very kind man. His research is complex but his writing is fun and humble and very comprehensible, and his approach is to help without writing a self-help book focused on doing better and getting ahead: just on being more self-aware, a little smarter, and genuinely nice. Great for parents, too, who are pretty clueless but want to help their children grow up being - and becoming -- happy, creative, productive, generous, helpful, and a joy to be with. Read more

Review:This book contains essential information for anybody interested in maintaining good emotional and physical health and taking appropriate measures in preventing Alzheimers and other degenerative brain diseases. Not only that, but it instructs on how already damaged brains can be improved and healed. Despite it being very repetitious in places I highly recommend it. It contains some interesting case studies and fascinating details about the different brain types. Read more

Review:It has a lot of information put into easily understandable terms and the accompanying pictures were excellent. A good book to take with you whenever you go beach combing. You can learn a lot from this book. Read more