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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
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• Sacks: Uncle Tungsten
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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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• 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.
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• 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 …
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• 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]]
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• Butcher: Jules Verne
  [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]][[Category: SJB]]
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• 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.
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• 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]]
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• 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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• Ball: Stories of the Invisible
  … lives – figuratively and literally – as a way to enlighten indirectly about molecular chemistry. He takes a particular interest in the big molecules t… …at avoids silly metaphors for scientific concepts, and I can recommend the book highly.
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• Diamond: Collapse
  …on about how societies choose to fail or succeed head on, spending most of book examining in detail societies both modern and ancient, mostly those that h… …g detail, while still keeping his focus on the main theme. The bulk of the book is detailed societal case histories, with the last 15% devoted to summing …
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• Quammen: The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
  …it is Charles Darwin, his activities, and his attitudes in relation to his book ''The Origin of Species'' that are the focus of Quammen's writing. …he idea of natural selection and then how did he finally publish his ideas about it despite his own misgivings. There's more, too: what were his misgivings…
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• Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
  …some of the following discussion about both is shared between the two book notes. …t chapter, which was a very satisfactory and streamlined conclusion to the book, and realized that most of the chapter would seem incomprehensible without…
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• Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker
  …much of the following discussion about both is shared between the two book notes. I have one other minor complaint about Dawkins, a feeling that I once noted in reading Stephen Jay Gould: that hi…
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• Euclid, the Crow
  === Notes === …d The Crow? The Puzzling Case File on the World's Smartest Bird", from his book ''Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature'' (New York : Schoc…
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• Ball: Bright Earth
  …to see? – but is, in truth, less ridiculous than it sounds. He's talking about color as we humans perceive it and use it. …colors that were available but most thought they were capturing some truth about color in nature and how humans view light and dark.
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• Ridley: The Red Queen
  …hat complicated cocktail we call "human behavior" is what this book is all about. It means following a path that meanders through a big garden; not surpris… Ridley avows at the beginning of the book that he is an <i>adaptationist</i>, one of those adherents of the Darwinia…
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• Manguel: A History of Reading
  …anguel, ''A History of Reading''. New York : Viking, 1996. 372 pages, with notes and index. …ingers of the same glove, it shouldn't surprise anyone to find here a book about reading amidst books on science and technology.
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• Lewin: Complexity
  …of those rare books that I did not bother to finish, abandoning my reading about halfway through. "Unhappily" because it had been recommended by a friend, … … subject of the book is the emerging (at the time) "science of complexity" about which the author was (at the time) breathlessly excited. "Complexity" – …
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• The Invention of Eyeglasses
  Alberto Manguel, in ''A History of Reading'', wrote{{ref|am01}} about the earliest known references to the invention of eyeglasses: === Notes ===
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• Monmonier: Air Apparent
  …Weather''. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1999. 309 pages with notes. This book is an appreciation and short-course in weather mapping, or weather cartogr…
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• Sullivan: Rats
  …s Most Unwanted Inhabitants.'' New York : Bloomsbury, 2004. 242 pages with notes (no index). …bad book or a very good book. Fortunately, it turned out to be a very good book that I'm happy to have read. I agree, the title sounds a bit clinical, but…
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• Barron: Piano
  In this marvelously written and researched book, the author traces the making of a Steinway concert grand piano from the b… …ghtful blend of reportage, background information and human interest, this book is well worth reading for the music lover as well as anyone interested in …
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• Ball: Critical Mass
  …s to Another''. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 520 pages with notes and index. … condensed-matter physics, one can safely predict that my reaction to this book then will be anything but tepid: either I would love it or hate it.
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• Allen: Vaccine
  …reatest Lifesaver.'' New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.523 pages with notes and index. This is a rich and stimulating book. The story of vaccines and vaccination, from the earliest use by Edward Je…
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• Baker: Double Fold
  …and the Assault on Paper''. New York : Random House, 2001. 370 pages, with notes, references, and index. …utions – including the Library of Congress -- when in the 1950s they set about destroying their archives of newspapers published on newsprint. Bound volu…
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• Finlay: Jewels
  …istory.'' New York : Ballentine Books, 2006. 472 pages, with color plates, notes, bibliography, and index. Rambling through the history, romance, and folklore of gems, this book is a collection of what we might think of as biographical sketches of seve…
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• Lightman: A Sense of the Mysterious
  …riginally published between 1984 and 2003. Three of the essays are lengthy book reviews that end up as biographical sketches of Albert Einstein, Richard F… I learned many things about science from Kip [Thorne, Lightman's thesis advisor at Cal Tech]. One of t…
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• Shermer: Science Friction
  …ts the Unknown.'' New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2005. 296 pages, with notes and index. …eath", a personal essay on existential questions that meshes with thoughts about his mother's death.
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• Burke: Circles
  …and very energetic production in the late 70s of the television series and book [[Burke:_Connections|Connections]]. It's a hard act to follow. …Burke's earlier book, [[Burke:_Connections|Connections]]. However, in this book the connections seem less causal in an historic way and more like linguist…
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• Forbes: The Gecko's Foot
  …ials from Nature''. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. 272 pages with notes, further reading, and index. This book is about what Forbes calls the "new science" of "biometrics", sometimes also called…
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• Quammen: The Boilerplate Rhino
  For background, here's the blurb from the back cover of the book: …s dream: a monthly column for ''Outside'' magazine in which he could write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "…
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• Lienhard: How Invention Begins
  … of New Machines.'' Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. 277 pages with notes and index. This is an admirable book, of the sort I easily admire and would like to have written myself, if onl…
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• Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma
  This is a large book, clearly written, for our education and awareness. "What you eat is insepa… [[Category: Book Notes]]
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• Abbott: What A Way To Go
  What an odd little book this is. Odd but informative and, not surprisingly, as difficult to turn a… … Executioner Always Chops Twice." It seems that for readers who enjoy this book there's plenty of follow-on reading available.
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• Roach: Spook
  I have previously read and noted a book by Mary Roach, [[Roach: Stiff|Stiff]]. That one was concerned with what ha… … of comic timing, has improved or become more sophisticated since her last book. This time I had very few groans, many more chuckles and raised eyebrows f…
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• Pinker: The Stuff Of Thought
  … as a Window into Human Nature''. New York : Viking, 2007. 499 pages, with notes, references, and index. …nguage in general. I think most people who enjoy language would enjoy this book and learn something useful from it at the same time.
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• McCredie: Balance
  …ew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2007. viii + 296 pages with appendix, notes, index. …or Smithsonian Magazine, as well as other publications. This is his first book.
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• Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma (2)
  … have anything light (for some value of "light") to read. (Maybe something about ''Stumbling''... some day.) …ne's perspective to respectful and grateful participant in the food chain. About his hunter-gatherer meal, he writes:
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• Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
  …erest in, certain famous results color our impression of what the book was about. So much "common knowledge" has accumulated around this work that it is re… …an easily seem daunting. Therefore it comes as some relief early on in the book to discover that Kinesy's narrative voice is quite readable and that the m…
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• Science-Book Challenge 2008
  …ook Challenge is easy: read three science books this year and then tell us about them and share your report with others. … will help us help other science-book readers by sharing their own science-book reading experiences.
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• Jackson: Unspun
  …'s a book that I thought deserved a more catchy opening than "I liked this book", but that seems to sum up my reaction pretty well. The subject of the book is "spin", presenting factual information with omissions, hyperbole, preva…
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• Bloom: Out There
  …e-forms exist in the universe); and the Air Force's notorious Project Blue Book (the Air Force was given the project because they were the only organizati… …r considers the case in some depth. (Note that the publication date of the book is close on the heels of the working-group investigation.)
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• Raymo: Walking Zero
  …g to read; plus, the subtitle is an accurate statement of the theme of the book. …ng cast of characters and, as promised, ideas that shaped the way we think about our place in the universe. The list of chapter titles gives a good sense o…
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• Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  …ations in living beings is wholly naïve – mine certainly was. Carroll's book changed that significantly for the better, and clarified a number of other… The key to answering such questions [about why different animals ''look'' different] is to realize that every animal …
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• Jeffreys: Aspirin
  …e Story of a Wonder Drug</i>. New York : Bloomsbury, 2004. 335 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index. This book is more in the nature of a pop-journalistic history than an analytical, sc…
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• Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons
  I must confess that I started out with a condescending attitude about this book. "How 17 molecules changed history" sounded histrionic to me, so I was pre… …ipline of science that the average person would find daunting to approach. About the only stretch of poetic license was for the title: did Napoleon lose Ru…
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• Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee
  …ns as a third species of chimpanzee. This is Diamond's basic theme for the book: how do humans differ from chimpanzees. It's a broad theme and he doesn't … In some ways this book essays in broad strokes the themes that Diamond would take up in much more…
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• Hecht: Doubt, a History
  …ly Dickenson''. New York : HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. xxi + 551 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index. …religion, or something other than actually about "doubt". But it really is about "doubt": what it is, how it manifests, its history as an idea, doubters in…
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• Dennett: Breaking the Spell
  …enomenon</i>. New York : Viking Penguin, 2006. 448 pages, with appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. …. However, you can guess from the beginning that he's not going to end the book with a sudden religious conversion experience.
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• Vogel: Cat's Paws and Catapults
  …re and People</i>. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. 382 pages, with notes, references, and index. Illustrated with graphs, diagrams, drawings, and p… I was a bit distrustful of this book, judging entirely by its cover. The title seemed almost frivolous to me, a…
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• Pollan: The Botany of Desire
  This book is about the complex relationship between people and plants. The premise is that pl… [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Dennett: Freedom Evolves
  … Dennett, ''Freedom Evolves''. New York : Viking, 2003. xiii + 347 pages, "notes on sources and further reading", bibliography, and index. …'s about. Here is the first paragraph of the first page of the text of the book:
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• Wilson: The Creation
  …''. New York : W.W.Norton & Company, 2006. 175 pages, with "References and Notes". …ction of species from the Earth, to join him in a search for common ground about "The Creation"—whether it is God's or Nature's—and accept the proposit…
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• Robinson: The Story of Measurement
  …are all interesting and informative topics. Making it a coffee-table sized book with copious color illustrations and short, digestible articles on its wid… …popular science, and this author unfortunately was not up to the task. The book appears to have been prepared without help of adequate science-editorial a…
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• Lienhard: Inventing Modern
  …'. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 292+ix pages, illustrated, with notes and index. …on Begins | ''How Invention Begins'']], which was a masterpiece of insight about invention, engineering, and society, so I had high expectations. My expect…
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• Huler: Defining The Wind
  …New York : Crown Publishers, 2004. 290 pages, illustrated, with appendix, "notes on sources", and index. …hat to happen with a book whose title sounds so dull? But overlook the bit about "The Beaufort Scale" and take your clue from the word "Poetry". Huler has …
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• Hayes: The Anatomist
  …ose unfamiliar with Gray's ''Anatomy'', it is the quintessential reference book for medical students. In its 20th printing, this tome sits alongside other… …or Hayes feels his whole life has led him to writing, "a book about a book about anatomy." He cites two childhood favorite activities. First, his two best …
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• Angier: The Canon
  …a reader. Before his demise, bless his soul, I used to love talking to him about books. One of his favorite authors, Patrick O'Brian, wrote 23 books in the… … textbook titled ''Ionic and Non-Ionic Surfactants.'' When asked about the book, he said he read it when unable to sleep.
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• Atkins: The Periodic Kingdom
  …n fact, I don't think he had his proposed audience clearly in mind and the book suffers markedly for it. …one is trying to keep in mind all the interesting facts that he introduces about elements or groups of elements, it hardly helps that one must also keep in…
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• Tudge: The Time Before History
  … that scale, it's more like yesterday? He proposes to see what can be said about human history before there was history, at least written history. …. Instead, Tudge has written a leisurely,wide-ranging, and thorough survey about the evolutionary history of human-kind.
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• Watson: Ideas
  …o Freud''. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. xix + 822 pages with "Notes and References" and index. This is a big, impressive book. The size is not really surprising for a book that promises to survey the entire history of ideas from prehistory to the…
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• Tyson: Death by Black Hole
  … seconds of the universe to light to stardust to more. This is the kind of book that will give you endless cocktail conversation starters: …a few of these questions (but to really understand it, you should read the book).
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• Rhazes and Avicenna
  Peter Watson, in his book ''Ideas'', discussed{{ref|pw01}} the contributions of two Islamic doctors,… …pox and measles. His other great book was ''Al-Hawi'' (''The Comprehensive Book''), a twenty-three-volume encyclopaedia of Greek, pre-Islamic Arab, Indian…
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• The Latin Transmitters
  …and for books in western civilazation -- a "near-death" experience for the book, to use his phrase. Some of Classical Greek knowledge survived largely thr… …e were seven-- and not nine -- partly because of the biblical text, in the Book of Wisdom: 'Wisdom hath builded herself an house, she hath hewn out seven …
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• Larson: Isaac's Storm
  …Hurricane in History''. New York : Crown Publishers, 1999. 323 pages, with notes, sources, and index; illustrated with two maps. In the introduction to his notes, author Larson wrote:
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• Winchester: The Map That Changed The World
  …serves wider recognition, which Simon Winchester adopts as the goal of his book. He makes a good job of it, too. Winchester's book is a very deft blending of the fortunes and misfortunes of Smith's career,…
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• Pollan: In Defense of Food
  The first part of the book is about nutritionism, or the idea that we can reduce foods down to their [[Category: Book Notes]][[Category: Top-Rated Books]]
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• Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable
  …enamored of them. Dawkins and I evidently see differing amounts of insight about reality in his computer models. We would agree that models and simulations… At the beginning of the book Dawkins spends a great deal of time trying to develop a very precise idea …
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