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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition

With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller?over 1.5 million copies sold?is now a major PBS special. Winner of... more

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    • Its alright but not the greatest history book
    • I am reading this book for a college course and its really boring to read the beginning chapter. Slowly, the book mentions about some interesting historical events that happened and goes on to talk...
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    • Diamond or charcoal?
    • A real reviewer once wrote: "Jared Diamond is suspected to be a pseudonym for a committee of experts". He (or she) had a point. Jared Diamond's book "Guns, germs and steel" could very well be...
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    • Very boring...
    • I was very excited to read this book and then very disappointed. It captured my attention for about half the book. The author makes several points that he supports with some evidence and then...
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists. He works at the... more

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    • A theologian looks at The Language of God
    • Dr. Francis Collins has written a timely book which shows clearly that there should be no conflict between science and religion. While I am trained in theology, I have very little expertise in...
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    • Evolution is not Compatible with Creationism
    • Although I am very excited that the author has expressed his faith in Jesus Christ and I rejoice with him over his Salvation, I wanted to make the observation here that Evolution is not compatible...
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    • Collins is right on science wrong on God
    • Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer? I read this book several times because Collins claims to reconcile his scientific worldveiw with his faith in Jesus as God. In...
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

Does science necessarily undermine faith in God? Or could it actually support faith? Beyond the flashpoint debates... more

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    • Language of God in simple terms
    • This book is written in a simple, straightfoward manner which enables the reader to understand principles of physics and such in a rudimentary way. It is a fascinating read, including the authors...
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    • Posted:Sep-25-2009
    • Recommended Reading, Though Limited In Scope
    • This is a good introduction to the perspective of theistic evolution. An easy read. Much though is missing regarding the alternative theological thoughts in order to harmonize Christianity &...
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    • Posted:Sep-21-2009
    • THE LANGUAGE OF GOD
    • It' nice and readable.May be a little too superficial from the medical point of view and the author is not using his scientific knowledge to corroborate the religious sentiment.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was... more

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    • Impressive in scope, somewhat difficult to read
    • As many have said, the amount of research that went into this book, and the resultant detail, was phenomenal.

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    • Exhaustive History Lesson, tendentious view of "Science."
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    • Overhyped
    • I have read (struggled through!) the first 300 pages of this book and am sorry I started it. If your only intent in life was to read minute scientific details of every snippet of conversation,...
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The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach has been used by over 100,000 students nationwide since it was published and is... more

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    The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

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    • Same As 4th Edition
    • I had to take the class that required this book two times and the second time, they had upgraded from the 4th edition to this 5th edition. So I went out and bought this new 5th edition only to...
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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes...

The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No SecretMichael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated... more

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    • Easy to read and very interesting.
    • Wonderful resource for my high school Geometry classes. But even if you're not a high school student, this book will keep you interested and wanting to "construct" a little of your universe!
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    • Posted:Aug-22-2007
    • A few gems--mostly blather
    • Reminds me of people who see number patterns in everything--even when it's mere coincidence. A few good ideas and concepts, but trying to tease them out is a chore. And some of the books...
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    • Eye-opening, yet flawed...
    • What I find fascinating about this book is the way it explores relationships between numbers, and why geometry is not as artificial and arbitrary as most people think today. For example, the...
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we... more

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    • Opinion versus Proof
    • This is a persuasive essay on the parallels between science and spirituality, based on a lifetime of research. If you're looking for a proof on the convergence of science and spirituality, see...
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    • Where spirituality & quantum physics meet
    • Enjoyable. Draws some interesting parallels between Buddhist philosophy and the emerging theories of Quantum Physics. Mind bending in place. Essentially reading for anyone who wants is trying to...
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    • Posted:Jan-17-2009
    • too lengthy with too much repeated words
    • I am so disappointed with this book! I have read several books on Buddhist and Zen and I loved them. I admire Dalai Lama and bought this book. But this book is poorly organized and written, which I...
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words,... more

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    • The Poetry of Atheism
    • This book anticipates the storm that followed Richard Dawkins' best seller, "The God Delusion", which told us bluntly that there is no cosmic security, that there is some kind of a future in our...
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    • Inspiring
    • Unweaving The Rainbow is not only a great science book for a casual reader, but it is also very inspiring because Dawkins' writing shows science and the natural world in a light that fills the...
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    • Scatter brain ranting at it finest
    • I honestly admit I did not finish this book. The topics jump from one to the next with no focus. The author reminded me of my worst profs in college; a self proclaimed genius with NO ability to...
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What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto)

What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schr?dinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A... more

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    • Not bad for a book I had to read for class...
    • I was supposed to read this book for one of my classes, and it was a quick and easy read. But had it not been for this class, I don't think I would've ever read it.
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    • A spectacular read!!
    • "What Is Life" is an excellent look into the brilliant mind of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, Erwin Schrodinger. This book suggested the existence of DNA. Tell me thats not...
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    • A physicist's essay on a topic he cannot know as a scientist, only as a human being
    • I'm wondering why scientists are allowed to give their opinion as scientists about topics they know nothing about as scientists. The beginning of the title ("What is Life") sounds like if...
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Climbing Mount Improbable

Climbing Mount Improbable

A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish... more

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    • Classic unproven assumptions
    • So many unproven assumptions and wild speculations, along with a misuse of "possible," which can only be used correctly if non-zero probability has been demonstrated using known science. Book...
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    • Posted:Mar-27-2008
    • STILL AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT IMPROBABLE

    • I read CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE many years ago. I consider it Dawkins's best work. Since I accept the fact of evolution no less than he does, I have no argument with his explanation of the...
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    • Posted:Aug-29-2005
    • A reducionist's view of evolution
    • This book is interesting and does a really good job defending Darwinism, even though it is way too long on some topics, becoming boring, like the excessively long chapter about spider webs.
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Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things... more

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    • Great intro to quantum mechanics
    • Great book. I have never had any exposure to the theory behind quantum mechanics/quantum theory. If you want a great stepping stone into a great new world, this is the book to get you started. The...
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    • Posted:Aug-09-2009
    • A Sincere Effort, But Falls Short
    • I found Rosenblum and Kuttner to be sincere in their intentions, honest in their presentation, reasonable in their interpretations, and commendable for their obvious efforts to present this...
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    • Posted:Aug-01-2009
    • Nice title, not terribly deep
    • It is nice to see books that offer complex physics without heavy math. It is disappointing in the case of books like this one where the science is watered down as well. Nothing of interest remains.
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McGraw-Hill's GED Mathematics Workbook

McGraw-Hill's GED Mathematics Workbook

Problem-solving and computational skills, with special focus on the use of the Casio FX-260 calculator, understanding... more

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    • GED prep
    • This book has lots of material all under one cover. There are lots of problems for reinforcing the concepts taught in the examples and the difficulty level increases as progress is made through...
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    • MCGRAW HILLS GED MATH
    • THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED. TIM TOOK IT TO A LOCAL TECH COLLEGE TO GET HIS GED AND THEY SAID IT WS COMPLETE AND THOROUGH. I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT VALUE
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The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America

The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern...

In The Power Makers, one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society offers an epic narrative of... more

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God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and... more

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    • Mediocre
    • This book was kind of a let down. I expected an in-depth analysis of the God hypothesis, but what this book offers is mostly rudimentary at best. The arguments, especially in the first three...
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    • The Best Scientific Approach on God I've Read So Far
    • Victor Stenger displays how science can prove that a god or gods do not exist. This was a very easy read, even if you aren't scientific or a mathematician. Stenger's approach is very forthcoming...
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    • Biased reasoning and flawed logic - a verdict from a kangaroo court
    • Stenger is an atheist and starts from the presupposition that atheism must be correct. He sets himself up as the arbiter of what evidence is needed to refute his beliefs and whether evidence to...
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

This remarkable book presents a rich and up?to?date view of evolution that explores the far?reaching implications of... more

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    • A somewhat inaccurate title
    • I read this book on the suggestion of a close relative who knows that I have been reading evolutionary biology, geology,paleontology, anthropology and related books and scientific articles for 40...
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    • The Triumph of an idea over what? - the facts?
    • If you read the blurb in the official Amazon review you will see that it says the author "treats the religious beliefs of creationists with respect, while firmly insisting that the scientific...
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Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race

Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan...

" As the Indiana Jones films showed, Nazis, new age mumbo-jumbo and exotic locations are a formula that works.... more

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    • I Sent My Money, But Recieved NO Book
    • I would love to have reviewed this sale, as I was very interested to read this book. Not only to read, but also for an upcoming college paper. Silly me, I thought by paying for it and waiting by...
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    • Interesting if not so pedantic, But all the stories are interesting
    • Hale's book takes on a subject that has been bandied about since the 1930s. Just how obsessed were the Germans at proving that they were the 'master race'. Sometimes (and this is one of them) it...
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    • What's in a name, what's in a title?
    • First, let me congratulate Mr. Hale on such a worthy feat of scholarly research. He has really gone "out on a limb" to try and present something new which we can "all" learn from. In the context of...
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Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space

Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space

Reality, today's physicists tell us, is created by the vibrations of exquisitely tiny superstrings in ten spatial... more

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    • A waste of dimensions
    • Bryanton doesn't understand what a dimension is, so unfortunately this book a waste of trees. His exposition contains the logical flaw where the dimension 5 to 7 are a subset of the dimension 7 to...
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    • Interesting, but different than I expected
    • I expected this to be an explanation of the 10 dimensions M-theory, or string theory or something. It started out that way, for the first chapter. I enjoyed it right up until he started trying to...
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    • Keyword here is "imagining"...
    • I enjoyed this book a great deal, but I think it's important to keep in mind that it is about imagining and visualizing things, and not about mathematical representations. I see a lot of reviews of...
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The Principles of Scientific Management

The Principles of Scientific Management

The basis of modern organization and decision theory, this influential essay has motivated administrators and... more

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    • Historical pleasure
    • This booklet is of course interesting from historical point of view. It is indeed surprising how simple things already seemed to be. Also now things seems to be very clear and simple, until we have...
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    • Shove it up your...
    • Taylor was beloved by Bolsheviks and fascists and capitalists alike. Lenin saw him as his guiding light. Taylor's comrade-in-arms Henry Ford was Hitler's hero. And we can thank Mr Taylor the many...
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    • A 20th Century Boondoggle
    • When Frederick Taylor wrote his paper in 1911, "The Principles of Scientific Management," it would appear to be the way to go in managing and motivating people. At least, that would be lessons...
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Fuel from Water: Energy Independence with Hydrogen, 11th Edition

Fuel from Water: Energy Independence with Hydrogen, 11th Edition

The book advocates hydrogen fuel as the best long-term alternative to fossil fuels and as a way to stop polluting the... more

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    • Comprehensive
    • This book provides a comprehensive view of the uses for and the production of Hydrogen gas as a fuel. There are hard facts and figures, particularly when making comparisons with other fuels and...
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    • What a Misleading Title...
    • I received the twelve edition of this book, and was disappointed even after I read reviews that gave me an idea of what to expect. The main flaw of this book is that the title does not accurately...
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    • H 2 brute'?
    • This more like a high school paper gone wrong than a serious book for adults. Typical of the nonsense circulating around lately regarding Hydrogen as an alternate fuel. Poor science, terrible...
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking's work introduced "the history of... more

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    • Accessible Hawking.
    • Good book overall. Gives a good overview of historical cosmology, as well as going over new concepts (i.e. String Theory). It is difficult to wrap your mind around some things (like when he talks...
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    • My Best Chance at Understanding Hawking
    • I'm not a math or science-y person, but I actually enjoyed Hawking's "Theory of Everything." It helps that the cover is fantastic and the book is less than 150 pages-- making it a great gift for...
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    • Phoenix Strikes Again
    • When Phoenix did a crummy job on their audio book production of A Brief History of Time, I thought "that seems kind of disrespectful, doing a hack job like that just so they can make money off of a...
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