Review:It is really a matter of expectation for me. The BBC series "Walking With Dinosaurs" was really fascinating to me many years ago. This book purports to bring us up to date on the massive amount of recent research. It starts out slow and very egocentric, written more to glorify the recent generation of scientists. I'm sorry, but the eccentric habits of hippie-nerd paleontologists as they go about their work just aren't that interesting. What I wanted was to learn in some depth how the field ... Read more

Review:This is one of the best books I've ever read but with reservations.
1. A self declared atheist/enlightment thinker should not quote Hebrew texts and Jewish prophets on every other page, but I guess this is not just a problem with Steven Pinker. Other fundamentalist atheists like Sam Harris and Dawkins also commit the same error shedding their wrath on Christianity and Islam. Mind you Evil has 3 roots not just 2. Why focus on 2 evils and skip the third let alone copy/paste paragraphs from it ... Read more

Review:Siempre es un placer leer un texto inteligente y profundo. El libro de Harari es breve (no tanto) pero nunca superficial. Y analiza en forma brillante diferentes fases de la evolución humana, desde el hombre primitivo hasta el consumismo moderno. Lectura muy recomendable a la que le dediqué dos artículos en mi blog: iglesiassicardi.blogspot.com Read more

Review:I very much like the brevity of each chapter since each chapter contains facts I either did not know or have forgotten. Due to the relative shortness of each chapter the new information is not overwhelming. The book confirms my awe of nature. I am still reading it, I have not finished it yet, and I am thrilled each time I pick it up. Read more

Review:The book is really clear and easy to read, also covers all the basic topics and provides examples when necessary. If you want a well written intro to one of the classical machine learning algorithms, you will really enjoy this book Read more

Review:Having lived near two great lakes in my life (Lakes Erie and Michigan), I was dying to know what was going on. Thiw was informative and read like a novel. My only complaint: not enough graphs, maps, and no timeline. Read more

Review:Not happy about having to write my very personal reaction to this book in such a public forum, but am motivated by my intense desire to communicate how important the book has been for me, and possibly could be for others.
Like I believe many people, I find myself often addicted to a particular handheld, mindless electronic game. Some days, I spend hours on this. I do it to cope with stress. Traumatized as a child, I found that if I created rushes of adrenalin, by creating dangerous situation ... Read more

Review:This is a book all nurses should read. It was written in the 1800's, but the basic nursing concepts have not changed. Because it was written in a different era, the language can be a bit cumbersome. I had to reread some passages to gain full comprehension. Again, even though this was written long ago, the basic concepts are very beneficial to any one on the medical profession. Read more

Review:Richard H. Thaler traces in this book the origin and the making of 'Behavioural Economics', where core premises of the classical economic theory and generally accepted hypotheses in matter of finance and markets, are questioned.

Core premises
Core premises of economic theory are that people choose by optimizing (rational choices) and that supply equals demand (price equilibrium). These premises assume that economic decisions are taken by a selfish and rational agent: the homo economicu... Read more

Review:Early in Eating Meat, Foer shares an anecdote of his starving Jewish grandmother, fleeing the Nazis and offered pork by a kind peasant. She is dying of starvation but rejects the pork, explaining, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save." While Foer loves his grandmother, the story-teller, the life-giver, and the lover of kosher beef and chicken, he uses her quote as a sort of epitaph throughout his book to pave the way for his conversion to vegetarianism, a conversion that separates him fr... Read more