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• Notes on Book Notes
  * To create a Book Note, or add your own notes to an existing Book Note, you must have an account at Science Besieged. If you don't have an a… * Book Note pages have titles made up of
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• Main Page
  … wiki is currently home to three: the Science-Book Challenge, Science Book Notes, and Science Time-Capsules. |align="center" | <font size=+2><b>Take the [[Science Book Challenge 2011]]!</b></font>
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• Crease: The Great Equations
  …erg''. New York : W.W.Norton & Company, 2008. 315 pages; illustrated; with notes and index. …ics revolution of the twentieth century, in Britain or elsewhere. Schama's book omits any references to the contributions made by British scientists and e…
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• Outline
  …'', where we keep the content for the Science-Book Challenge, Science Book Notes, and Time Capsules. The more general [http://scienticity.net Scienticity w… * [[Scienticity:About | About the Scienticity Project]]
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• Beard: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey
  …f paleontological history, travelogue, and serious science. Throughout the book the author describes his discoveries and how they shed light on the histor… …earch in the U.S. to his more current research in China. At the end of the book, he provides us with his hypothesis for the primate "family tree", or more…
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• Shubin: Your Inner Fish
  …use, etc. ''Your Inner Fish'', by Neil Shubin, is an excellent little book about evolution. Shubin is an anatomist and paleontologist whose team discovered… …ll feel that there were no transitional fossils because so much of this is about the transitional creatures.
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• Levitt: Freakonomics (2)
  …economist at the University of Chicago. Dubner was also researching a book about the psychology of money. …Levitt they decided their styles would allow them to work together on this book. They began with an "Exploratory Note, Preface to this Revised and Expand…
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• Evolution and the Vatican
  … ''The Origin of Species'' in 1859, during the pontificate of Pius IX. The book was included in the 1948 edition of the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' (t… …al statement is not so much hostile to science as it is trying to be clear about the boundaries between science and theology; the assertions that reason an…
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• Recommended Books
  * Henry Petroski, ''The book on the bookshelf'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999). [[Category:Book Notes]]
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• Book-note ratings
  …commendation=5}}We use five categories to indicate our satisfaction with a book, listing them in a table with 1 to 5 Ars checkerboards to indicate level o… …ience and make them clear to the reader? How fundamental is science to the book's ''gestalt''?
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• Short: The World Through Maps
  It is rare for a large-format picture book to exhibit depth of information and understanding in its text, but this on… For an excerpt from the book, see our Time Capsule [[Surveying the American West]], which combines the …
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• Petroski: Success Through Failure
  [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Mooney: The Republican War on Science
  …book, and it's a subject close to our heart here at Ars Hermeneutica; this book can be read as a partial justification for our creation. …ages listing the interviews he used as sources; the additional 60 pages of notes to reference sources are not padded and provide a valuable resource. He ha…
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• Sobel: The Illustrated Longitude
  [[Category: Book Notes]]
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• Sacks: Uncle Tungsten
  [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Notes on Book Notes
  * To create a Book Note, or add your own notes to an existing Book Note, you must have an account at Science Besieged. If you don't have an a… * Book Note pages have titles made up of
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• Robinson: Lost Languages
  …her Education Supplement, London. His writing is engaging, his enthusiasm about his subject is obvious, and his presentation generally well-reasoned and l… I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, although the size of the physical book wa a bit awkward for casual reading, and the chosen typeface for the text …
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• Squyres: Roving Mars
  …cientist to do good science in a highly political environment. I found the book particularly compelling because of my intimate knowledge of the NASA fundi… [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Dawkins: The Ancestor's Tale
  The first impression this book makes is one of mass: it is a massive volume and filled with weighty mater… …ries are typically a few pages long and relatively self contained. So, the book can easily be read in small pieces over a long time period and yet the ind…
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• Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  …the book from a friend, and it came to me already marked it with dozens of notes stuck all over it. [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Jardine: Ingenious Pursuits
  I wanted to like this book more. Jardine is a specialist in Renaissance History and puts all the righ… [[Category: Book Notes]]
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