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 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and SexBest Price: $14.05 I couldn't get into Roach's two previous books, but this one was excellent. She explores the... |  Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the PoorBest Price: $12.80 Endorsed by both MIT Climate Scientist Richard Lindzen and laissez-faire economist Walter E.... |  This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionBest Price: $2.95 I, too, found the endless name-dropping endlessly irritating. As to the rest - I leave it to the... |  Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASABest Price: $14.86 I heartily recommend this book. Good reading, although it bogs a little in the front part with... |  The World Without UsBest Price: $7.60 This book was a selection for our non-fiction book club at our local library. I agree with the... |
 The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for BeliefBest Price: $6.72 A scientist does a thorough job of explaining God in a way that clears the smoke from those who... |  The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingBest Price: $21.66 Folks often wonder where the scientists draw the energy to spend all those hours studying... |  Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversBest Price: $6.99 With bright humor, wicked insights and a strong stomach, appropriately-named author Mary Roach... |  Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global WarmingBest Price: $14.46 The shear volume of emerging technologies described in this book is astounding and inspiring. ... |  Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's SoulBest Price: $14.49 Last year I left evangelicalism in favor of agnosticism. A major reason for my departure was... |
 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidBest Price: $11.94 This is one of my favourite book of all time. I first read it twenty years ago as an... |  The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to GoogleBest Price: $13.49 I liked the book in general but struggled with the utility analogy. Here is why: The... |  The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific PretensionsBest Price: $13.53 For the past couple years "militant atheism," as the Wall Street Journal put it, has... |  The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsBest Price: $7.56 Essential reading in understanding why the Enlightenment ideal of rationality is dead or at... |  The Holographic UniverseBest Price: $7.84 I don't recall how I became aware of this book, but after I read it (and as many of the author's... |
 English Grammar for DummiesBest Price: $10.75 This was very helpful. I have been out of school a long time and this refreshed my memory. ... |  Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters ConsciousnessBest Price: $10.74 Quantum Enigma goes where few science books dare to go: right up to the border that separates... | Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness Best Price: $10.74 Quantum Enigma goes where few science books dare to go: right up to the border that separates... |  The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the DarkBest Price: $8.50 Taking a broad and accurate swipe at superstition and pseudo-science, Carl Sagan makes a... |  Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of OilBest Price: $15.99 A serious book calls for a serious review and I will try to provide that. Zubrin covers a lot of... |
 Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory ResearchBest Price: $13.51 Sue Halpern takes the reader on a fascinating and provocative safari through the wilds of the... |  The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureBest Price: $14.75 Pinker makes a very good case for neo-Kantianism based on liguistics. In a nutshell, we humans... |  Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in SpaceflightBest Price: $18.75 This book has a lot more technical information than I expected. It explains techincal details.... |  Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing PuzzlesBest Price: $14.49 This book explains the surprisingly complex puzzles behind prices for every day things. It... |  The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDSBest Price: $14.75 I read a lot, on a wide variety of topics. If it has words on it, I'll try to read it, even if I... |
 Einstein: His Life and UniverseBest Price: $8.96 It seems that the other reviewers have exhausted all superlatives in describing this book. I... |  God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not ExistBest Price: $11.55 Does God exist? Who the hell knows. Certainly not a preist nor a scientist. Nobody knows one way... |  From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals)Best Price: $24.83 This is a collection of Darwin's four best known books, and it's a great read for any natural... |  Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural PhenomenonBest Price: $8.44 In the God Delusion, Dawkins makes an argument against religion and articulates what he believes... |  The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward GodBest Price: $3.71 10 April 2008 - This is a fantastic book for the beginners-level apologist. The experts that... |
 Spook: Science Tackles the AfterlifeBest Price: $5.39 I loved Mary Roach's first book, Stiff, about what becomes of our bodies after we die. It was... |  The Poetics of SpaceBest Price: $7.25 I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book... |  Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body MedicineBest Price: $5.75 this book need serious editing to make it readable I was looking for a book about peptides,... | Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Best Price: $5.39 I loved Mary Roach's first book, Stiff, about what becomes of our bodies after we die. It was... | The Poetics of Space Best Price: $7.25 I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book... |
| Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine Best Price: $5.75 this book need serious editing to make it readable I was looking for a book about peptides,... |  The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and SpiritualityBest Price: $7.37 A clearly and concisely written book that shows the author's journey on the path of deeper... |  The Cartoon Guide to PhysicsBest Price: $6.98 I really enjoy this brief introduction to most of the important fundamentals of Physics. If you... |  I Am a Strange LoopBest Price: $8.94 I am 2/3 through the book and enjoying it immensely. It is consistently Douglas Hofstadter. It... |  Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of EverythingBest Price: $8.93 This book is another illustrative example of how complex, philosophic and unrealizable to direct... |
 The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (25th Anniversary Edition)Best Price: $7.50 Nutshell review - Another book in the meta-physics / quantum physics for the lay-person genre.... |  Molecules That Changed the WorldBest Price: $43.75 This book is useful information to anyone interested in the status of Biological Chemistry. The... |  Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter ItBest Price: $14.48 Excellent book. A historical summary of what climate has done to the earth over thousands of... |  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaBest Price: $8.35 I am a math teacher and read this book on recommendation from a fellow math teacher. The book is... |  Ideas and OpinionsBest Price: $2.98 This is a very enlightening read. It takes you into the mind of a absolutely brilliant man to... |
 Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our LifetimeBest Price: $5.75 Clear and detailed road-map towards finding a cure for aging. Aubrey De Grey has writen a... |  Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our TimeBest Price: $4.98 I got this book (an autographed copy, no less) after a debate between the author and a Christian... |  Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)Best Price: $22.58 The authors do an excellent job of introducing the field to an educated audience. Any one who... |  Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S.)Best Price: $5.45 As so many of the other reviews state, the first part of the book is excellent in explaining how... |  The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of LifeBest Price: $7.93 The information was not what I expected in regard to a misleading title. Anyone in the... |
 The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of EvolutionBest Price: $10.40 Most of this book is a primer on how the study of DNA code from various species sheds light on... |  Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for WonderBest Price: $4.25 I was first drawn to Dawkin through his book God Delusion. He was very good author there and he... |  iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing ItBest Price: $4.99 As an early adopter of the TRS-80 (1978) and later Apple II I have been an avid reader of much... | ||
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