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The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and...

The book you hold in your hands is revolutionary, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of intention. It is... more

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    • Posted:Oct-04-2009
    • very interesting....the next step in our universe of thought...so long to old science and theory...we are changing
    • Enjoyed both books by McTaggart. All new..this quantum physics thing. and she has done well to research all top centers on what is happening in this area Did hear of her on Coast to Coast...
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    • Posted:May-18-2009
    • Doesn't deliver on its' promise.
    • Apparently, after writing "The Field" (which, by the way, was excellent), this author had a lot of research left over that she did not use in that book. So, like many authors, she took her unused...
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    • Posted:Jul-28-2008
    • Disappointing
    • A couple of chapters into Lynne McTaggart's book, The Intention Experiment, I was disappointed. Bored and disappointed. Two emotions I certainly didn't expect to feel while reading a book on one of...
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure...

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry... more

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    • interesting
    • An absorbing account by Watson, but would like to hear some other sides of the story, from Crick and the others who contributed to the double helix discovery.
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    • Posted:Oct-03-2008
    • C+
    • Honest yet condescending and superficial. These adjectives would be the best way of describing not only the tone of this memoir, but also the personality of its author, the famed James D. Watson...
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    • A dishonourment to Rosalind Franklin's memory
    • This book is an innaccurate version of events in the the discovery of teh structure of DNA. What most people don't know is that Rosalind Franklin was crucial to the discovery of the structure of...
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Nanotechnology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

Nanotechnology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

This title demystifies the topic for investors, business executives, and anyone interested in how molecule-sized... more

The Planets

The Planets

With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and... more

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    The Planets

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    • Posted:Aug-09-2009
    • It is a fun book
    • This book is a fun, light read. All one has to do to know that there will be very little actual science discussed is look at the word spacing on the page. It is pretty spaced out with very few...
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    • Come down to earth, please
    • I'm on a Dava Sobel kick. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time was delightful.

      Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of...
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    • Posted:Jan-12-2008
    • Okay, not fabuous
    • I find it a little odd that several people have expressed disappointment that the "letter" from Caroline Herschel to Maria Mitchell about the discoveries of Uranus and Neptune in the chapter "Night...
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Careers in Science

Careers in Science

For college students planning a future, professionals looking to change fields, or anyone who wants new insight into... more

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    • Posted:Dec-17-2004
    • Dated but still useful
    • It's too bad in a way that a book like this must cite annual salary figures and job market projections. Why? Because they so rapidly become outdated.

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The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science

The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science

An in-depth look at the most intriguing puzzles in science today In this illuminating book, professors Arthur... more

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    • Posted:Jan-24-2005
    • 5 Unsolved Problems - Or is it 100's

    • This book is a GREAT introduction to anyone interested in science, wishing to become better informed about scientific issues, or wanting to know what many of our best scientists are working...
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Mission to Abisko: Stories and Myths in the Creation of Scientific "Truth"

Mission to Abisko: Stories and Myths in the Creation of Scientific "Truth"

How the stories scientists tell shape what we know about science and the world. "The village of Abisko in May... more

The History of Space Vehicles

The History of Space Vehicles

Few events in history have been more monumental than the emergence of the Space Age, which began with the Soviet... more

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Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril

Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and...

Seeing in the Dark is a poetic love letter to the skies and a stirring report on the revolution now sweeping amateur... more

Silicon Second Nature : Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World

Silicon Second Nature : Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World

Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes... more

Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming

Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming

There is no longer any doubt that the Earth is getting hotter: the question remains, why? Combining the research of a... more

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    • Posted:Feb-11-2006
    • Story that never travels far enough into science
    • I agree with other reviewers that Gale E. Christianson can wave a tale, and the first half of the book describing Darwin's works, the growth of the global warming theory, and on into our modern...
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    • Posted:Apr-23-2005
    • Fascinating Historical & Current Global Warming Overview
    • Dr Gale Christianson, a Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science and a history teacher at Indiana State U. is well suited to write on the history and science of global warming. This book is a...
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    • Posted:Aug-11-2002
    • Science as storytelling
    • Gale Christianson has made the science of global warming and climate change accessible to the general public with his book "Greenhouse." He has a knack for bringing the quirky personalities of the...
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Fatal Flaws: What Evolutionists Don't Want You to Know

Fatal Flaws: What Evolutionists Don't Want You to Know

As more and more so-called experts challenge what the Bible says about the creation of man, we must take aim with... more

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    • Posted:Jul-17-2008
    • Hank should consider they views of St Augustine
    • Hank you should study St Augustine of Hippo's views about science before writing this piffle:

      "Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other...
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    • Posted:Feb-07-2008
    • A much-needed read for today's society
    • I bought this book a couple of years ago and have read it twice. Hank does a masterful job deconstructing the myth of evolution. Everyone ought to read this book carefully and think about what it...
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Space 50

Space 50

In less than the span of a human lifetime, we have explored the Moon and launched robot probes to Mars, Jupiter, and... more

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The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London

The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal...

The strange six-hundred-year history of the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London. From a polar bear who fished... more

Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us

Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us

An overdue indictment of government, industry, and faith groups that twist science for their own gain.?During the... more

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    • Excellent Introductory Book
    • Great book on pseudoscience for the budding skeptic. The author covers a wide variety of topics and occasionally shows us his snarky sense of humor. He covers the food industry, big pharma,...
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    • Some good stuff, but too much junky science
    • "Junk Science" is a disappointment; it contains too much junk science.
      The first two chapters are excellent. Chapter 1 covers dogma, Galileo,
      Lysenkoism, phrenology, and eugenics. Chapter...
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    • Doesn't always distinguish between junk science and pure fraud
    • I was disappointed in this book. It doesn't deal quite as much with the manipulation of science but often just pure fraud. For example, it has a chapter on the tobacco industry's insistence that...
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Reclaiming Science from Darwinism: A Clear Understanding of Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design

Reclaiming Science from Darwinism: A Clear Understanding of Creation,...

Foreword: William Dembski, PhD. Darwinism is a 150?year?old icon that has been propped up by unproven suppositions.... more

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have... more

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    • Opens the door on the study of real morality
    • The book is a fine introduction to current research on moral decision-making in humans and animals. The science of morality is newborn, and Hauser's analogy of a "moral grammar' is both...
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    • Posted:Dec-15-2008
    • Very disappointed
    • I really wish the fascinating topic had been tackled by a better writer. The syntax is convoluted and frequently garbled, so any understanding can be gained only with a great deal of rereading and...
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    • Posted:Mar-31-2007
    • great idea, poor execution
    • I agree with Rick: great idea, poor execution. Various moral and social systems have long tried to codify and explain away through religious and other naratives what is only natural to us. Kudos to...
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The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling Science and Religion

The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling...

The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrative offering the reader a sense for what has... more

Space Missions: From Sputnik to SpaceShipOne: The History of Space Flight

Space Missions: From Sputnik to SpaceShipOne: The History of Space Flight

3-2-1: Lift off! Experience the exhilaration of space flight, from Sputnik to Spaceship One in this entertaining and... more

The Meaning of the 21st Century

The Meaning of the 21st Century

James Martin tells us that we are living in a turning point in human history. "We are traveling at breakneck speed... more

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    • Roughly and helpfully right
    • This book is one of the most interesting and I dare say, important in my library. Read the other reviews for critiques of where he might be 'precisely wrong' in parts of his argument.
      But...
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    • Posted:Sep-20-2007
    • A good rough draft in need of an editor
    • Some interesting material here, but poorly, poorly organized. Especially in the second half. Repetitive to a fault. Desperately needs footnotes, or an annotated bibliography. Too much...
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    • 20th century mindset applied to 21st century
    • I did not like the ideas presented or the arguments made in favor of them.

      The author is using a common trick to make his claims convincing. Begin with true assumptions and ones that...
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