Review:I got it for my brother for Christmas. I asked him what he thought about it but he said a bunch of stuff I didn't quite understand but he was smiling while he talked about it so it was probably good stuff. Read more

Review:An excellant book. It helps if you have some introduction to physics (elementary level) to fully appreciate the quality of this book but having said that, all it really takes is the motivation to want to know more about the subject matter. It's presented in a very well laid out and logical manner with a touch of easily understood math. I highly recommend it to anyone curious about the universe. Read more

Review:Bought this for my 15 year old son who has Aspergers and is home schooled. He really likes it and is blazing through it! On days that I let him choose subjects to work on he always wants to do physics first! Read more

Review:I read this before, but cannot find that copy; so I ordered this copy for my library. If the movie had stuck to Carl Sagon's novel, instead of deviating to extraneous religious nonsense, more people would want to read the novel after seeing the movie. The novel is so much better than the movie of the same name. Read more

Review:In 1959, when Kate Mayfield was in kindergarten, her family moved to Jubilee, Kentucky so that her parents could open their own funeral home. In this memoir, Kate revisits the first 20 or so years of her life, much of it spent in the three storey house which was both a family home (upstairs) and a funeral home (on the ground floor). She and her three siblings had to remain very quiet and out of sight whenever a service was taking place.

‘I can still never hear a phone ring without think... Read more

Review:pictures are great, but the words.... The limited vocabulary makes it nigh unreadable. I just cant get past it, it feels like I am being talked down to. I should have investigated more before I bought it, it is not what I expected. I expected the wordy wit of XKCD and a more through examination of those rather neat informative images he sometimes makes in his webcomic. Read more

Review:This book was well writen and well explained, and I loved Stephenson's analogies, but his lust for unix based operating systems and his lack of knowledge of others (mainly BeOS) disapointed me. The book would have been more properly titled as "Unix is god, the rest, well they are there." because that was his overall outlook of operating systems from my perspective.
Finally, I would recomend this book to anyone whole is a user of multiple OSes and enjoys the topic of OSes. [Recomended] Read more

Review:I had a relationship with this book. I glanced at her at the bookstore and passed her by twice. Gave her the eye and read her back side. I opened her up and read a few pages. I wrote down her title and found her on kindle because she was cheaper there. I started slowly and read the first few chapters. She remained hidden in my kindle for a few weeks. Boredom. I remembered she still existed and resumed reading. We took a walk through history and she explained all these wonderful things. ... Read more

Review:To describe this book in one word would be ...fascinating! Truly fascinating! I came into this book thinking it was going to be talking about how we believe in demons and such. I wasn't prepared for all that i got out of Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World. I am glad that i got the chance to read such an intriguing book. I understand where Sagan is coming from when he says that we are leaning way too much on Pseudoscience. Science seems to me to be the framework that we all need. Sci... Read more

Review:This profound Carl Sagan book does not include the wonderful color illustrations as the earlier version contains. Consequently, it is like a National Graphic Magazine without the pictures.

I love the words of Dr. Sagan, but words plus the spectacular pictures truly make "music."

Following is the edition you should get. I threw away the "Pale Blue Dot" paperback I received yesterday and today ordered a used hardback:

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Hardcover: 429 pages
Publisher: Rando... Read more