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• Ferguson: Tycho and Kepler
  … a musician. In recent years, however, she has devoted herself to writing about science and science issues. …nce writers take note: it is possible to write interesting, engaging prose about scientific ideas and history and not do violence to the basic scientific c…
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• Blaise: Time Lord
  …The only thing I could find to fault about the book was that there were no notes or references in the back, a disappointment because his writing pointed ou… [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]][[Category: JNS]]
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• Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus
  …veristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is perhaps the first popular book on "textual criticism", the method by which scholars attempt to reconstruc… [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]][[Category: SJB]]
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• Garfield: Mauve
  …m Perkin accidentally invented a color that took the world by storm. This book is the story of that accident and its consequences. Garfield tells his story with verve and imagination. This is definitely a book worth reading.
  963 B (135 words) - 00:14, 15 April 2009
• Rappole: Birds of the Mid-Atlantic Region
  This resource book contains a color-tab index for bird groups and a driving locator for 74 bi… …ed that he had found a new bird species in Burma. Perhaps there is another book in the future!
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• Gleick: Isaac Newton
  …t lofty rhetorical style on the poetic side, and sustain it throughout the book. It's a difficult voice to maintain, but he did it well and it suited the … …per appreciation of Newton than one might expect from a surprisingly short book.
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• Bondeson: Buried Alive
  I found this book fascinating and informative and generally easy to read, but it is the sort… …g the book on the last page. These are puzzlements not about the book, but about the human behavior it describes.
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• Brown: Angels and Demons
  …yal of science, despite its claims to the contrary at the beginning of the book. Early in the book we're introduced to an "ambigram", text written in such a manner that it l…
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• Lynch: The Highest Tide
  …n Olympia, Washington, the site of his first novel. Although fiction, this book has science besieged worthiness. He has won national journalism awards and… [[Category: Book Notes]]
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• Angel: The Tale of the Scale
  …uminating blend that one could imagine from this simple description of the book's theme. Angel at the start was neither an inventor nor a mechanical engin… This is the very rare sort of book that we press into many different friends' hands saying "Here, you should …
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• Kurlansky: Salt
  …power. There are sketches and maps to guide the reader along. You can read about the rest of the world, but let me tell you that the USA is presently the l… …with much salt, but in Cuzco, Peru I visited salt flats and having learned about the life of salt miners/farmers, I pay a little more attention. I learned …
  1 KB (184 words) - 00:38, 15 April 2009
• Moffett: The Three-Pound Enigma
  While the subtitle may seem a bit daunting, the book is very amusing, not at all difficult to get one's mind around, and well w… [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Burke: Connections
  …emained an eye-opener that seems fresh and relevant with each airing. This book was the volume written by Burke as a companion to the series. While it ech… …aring all the connections he finds in history, as though the covers of his book can barely contain all the interesting stories he wants to tell.
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• Manhein: Trail of Bones
  In this, her second book, she regales us with various cases on which she has worked. These cases r… [[Category: Book Notes]]
  1 KB (161 words) - 00:52, 15 April 2009
• Butcher: Jules Verne
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  1 KB (215 words) - 23:56, 14 April 2009
• Burger: Flowers
  …look at various types of science and math textbooks at yard sales and used book stores, thinking that maybe this one will teach them stuff they would like… …e evolutionary race to survive. Flowering plants have become very creative about sex, too.
  3 KB (459 words) - 23:55, 14 April 2009
• Roach: Stiff
  This book answers a question that you may not have realized you had: What happens to… …h tests, to discover the effects of military weapons on the body, to learn about decay after death for use in forensics, and a number of other ways, becaus…
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• Levitt: Freakonomics
  …Why doesn't capital punishment deter criminals? What do on-line daters lie about? Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
  1 KB (230 words) - 00:43, 15 April 2009
• Ball: The Ingredients
  …e theme of the book is: "What is stuff made of?" While he writes primarily about the chemical elements, Ball is willing to broaden his scope and consider t… …in his preface, the author announces his intention to avoid organizing his book in the accustomed way according to the periodic table of the elements. To …
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• Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
  This book, which takes the alleged war between science and the humanities as its top… …ould's collections of essays, I can't recommend wasting any time with this book.
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