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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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• 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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