Review:While I admire Sully tremendously, the book is just too long. It could have been half the length, it is very repetitive. I enjoyed reading about his career and of course it was great to read first hand about the water landing...that was spectacular. Read more

Review:All the basics of perspective is pretty much right here, with clear and easy to understand examples & descriptions. It's a very helpful book for anyone studying perspective. I Highly recommend it! Read more

Review:I had a Grandfather that worked at Bell Labs from the early 50's through the 80's. He does not talk much about his time there but with the little I did know of his career at the Labs I was intrigued being a IT professional myself. When I heard of this book I bought it right away and breezed through it in no time. The history of the Labs is the starting point of everything we have today from any electronic device we use to Cellular technology (cell phone networks) and military technology such ... Read more

Review:This book read quickly and was super interesting! I loved learning about the solution to the ages-old problem of figuring longitude while at sea. The technical detail of the problem was written in an easy-to-understand way, and the people in the history are so well-developed that I became emotionally involved with them--empathetic towards 1, frustrated by another, disliked yet another. From a teaching standpoint, this would be a great starting point for a junior high or high school project-ba... Read more

Review:Not flawless, but a fantastic read.
If you love amazing airplanes, engineering generally, or if you work with Agile and Scrum in the software world, this book is a great perspective.
They were building airplanes with Scrum before anyone thought to give the methodology a name. Read more

Review:I was of the faction that wasnt really too concerned with global warming. At one time the world was covered with molten lava. I still believe that we are a species arent as important as we like to tell ourselves that we are. After reading this book my stance is altered. I believe that we should fulfill the promise to our children, i currently have none, to bring them into this world and give them a better life then we inherited. The facts and figures in this book are hard to deny. Even now i can... Read more

Review:I highly recommend this book. As a physician, I received very little training on nutrition beyond the simple "calories in / calories out" concept, with a minor focus on what the composition actually looked like. Dr. Longo presents some of his lab's groundbreaking research on fasting and fasting mimicking diets, as well as some general guidelines for what to eat every day, which I find tremendously useful and plan to implement myself. The book does a great job of synthesizing the research behi... Read more

Review:Powerful book that gives the historical facts of how the arid west's water supply has been developed. The huge subsidies and significant impacts of these actions should make all of us question the sanity of continuing this madness. Read more

Review:An eye opening book about public investments in infrastructure projects, primarily water management. The book is quite thorough, well-researched and very readable. It makes your blood boil to see how decisions are made, how much money is wasted, the damage to our planet and its future, and the beneficiaries of government largess. Read more

Review:Seven Pillars of Wisdom is fascinating from cover to cover. The book is on some levels Lawrence's study of himself as much as a history of the battles in which he was involved. He writes, "Any protestation of the truth from me was called modesty, self-depreciation. It always irritated me, this silly confusion of shyness, which was conduct, with modesty, which was a point of view... I was not modest, but ashamed of my awkwardness, of my physical envelope, of my solitary unlikeness which made me n... Read more