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 The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyBest Price: $8.85 Very interesting review of the developments of the cybernet revolution and its implications for... |  Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and SexBest Price: $14.05 Bonk is about all of the past research that has been conducted on sexual intercourse from the... |  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesBest Price: $14.91 Guns, Germs and Steel is a scientific historical treatment on the rise and fall of civilizations... |  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.... |  The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum MechanicsBest Price: $15.15 This is absolutely the greatest example of what popular science book about theoretical... |
 The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBest Price: $17.50 Having long been an admirer of Joseph Needham, and having read some of his magnificent work... |  The Art Of WarBest Price: $3.35 I thought this would be the full edition. What I received was a condensed version with... |  This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionBest Price: $2.93 I, too, found the endless name-dropping endlessly irritating. As to the rest - I leave it to the... |  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... |  Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive AdvantageBest Price: $15.50 I have revisited this book a number of times since I read it last year. It is a good resouce in... |
 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... |  The End of FoodBest Price: $16.03 I am really enjoying this book. The current rice shortage and e-coli outbreaks were topics I... |  Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and ReligionBest Price: $14.72 REINVENTING THE SACRED: A NEW VIEW OF SCIENCE, REASON AND RELIGION comes from a pioneer in the... |  Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-QaedaBest Price: $19.77 For most people when they think of Spying they think of the guy on ground doing his Thing.But... |
 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... | Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming Best 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 Soul Best Price: $14.49 Last year I left evangelicalism in favor of agnosticism. A major reason for my departure was... |  Build Your Own Electric VehicleBest Price: $13.57 This book was written in the early 90's. It's so out of date that it's almost usless. Whish I... |
 Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and WhyBest Price: $8.16 If you would like to know which qualities of character you'd like to cultivate ,that will... |  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... |  Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / FacilitiesBest Price: $11.19 I am totally new to backyard chicken keeping and I am loving this book! It has very detailed... |  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... |
 Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2nd Edition)Best Price: $45.99 Text was recommended by graduate school professor. It is fairly succinct and a good resource.... |  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... |  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... |
 The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and ObsessionBest Price: $15.33 I found this book not only informative but the prose was exquisite and made a big subject... |  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 Hot Zone: A Terrifying True StoryBest Price: $4.72 This book was required summer reading for me, and at first I was a little bit hesitant to pick... |  The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human NatureBest Price: $7.96 The quality of this book I think is very good, the way in which the history is related and the... |
| Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research Best Price: $13.51 Sue Halpern takes the reader on a fascinating and provocative safari through the wilds of the... | The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story Best Price: $4.72 This book was required summer reading for me, and at first I was a little bit hesitant to pick... | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Best Price: $7.96 The quality of this book I think is very good, the way in which the history is related and the... |  Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food SystemBest Price: $13.57 I won't cover the same ground as Mr. Vannoni did. His review is spot on. I wish I had seen it... |  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... |
 The Ten Most Beautiful ExperimentsBest Price: $12.91 George Johnson chose experiments that "...were those rare moments when, using the materials... |  Pocket RefBest Price: $7.35 Probably the best collection of tables, conversion factors,material properties and countless... |  The God DelusionBest Price: $7.99 After reading The God delusion, a feeling of reasurance and vigor enters one self. Many of my... |  The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)Best Price: $10.99 Although there are many books on writing research or term papers, I have not found anything else... |  Second Nature: A Gardener's EducationBest Price: $7.94 That's not entirely fair, but...this is a book of essays, not a natural history or gardening... |
 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... |  The Making of the Atomic BombBest Price: $8.98 I am an amateur scholar of the Manhattan Project, its consequences and the weapons programmes of... |  Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the HeadlinesBest Price: $17.79 I wish my high school or college had used this book instead of the boring math-based physics... |
 Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the WorldBest Price: $11.60 A bit America-centric for European readers but nonetheless great to have all this info in one... | ||||
History & Philosophy Books
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