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Author: Daniel J. Levitin - (Paperback) - 2007 ... more
Brilliant and inspiring. It gives a great understanding of music and how we perceive it. It is written in a very accessible language for those of us music enthusiasts with no knowledge of neuroscience. read full review | report as inappropriate
What happens when someone takes a wonderful idea and betrays it? Narcissistic Inaccurate Distasteful Remember that the majority prefers mediocrity and that's why a book like this becomes popular. read full review | report as inappropriate
This book is so highly reviewed I doubt the utility of typing one of my own but here goes. I think Andrew Palmer (see his review, 1-star) said it best in one thought. He "found it to read like an extended Wikipedia entry". The... read full review | report as inappropriate
Author: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - (Paperback) - 1997 ... more
Every human should read this book. Carl Sagan shows us just how fallible we all are and at the same time it's clear he loves and respects people. I've tabbed and highlighted the hell out of this lovely book. read full review | report as inappropriate
If you're already a hardened skeptic, skip this book. The book briefly touches on a number of topics that tend to suck in gullible people (e.g. aliens, crop circles), but is unlikely to provide any new material to anyone even minimally acquainted... read full review | report as inappropriate
It's a good book, ok? Well conceived, well written, and important in its way. I just don't understand why there must be such abrasive self-righteousness. So many people of a skeptical bent seem to believe that the only way to change mistaken... read full review | report as inappropriate
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Author: Francis S. Collins - (Paperback) ... more
I bought this book right after I lost faith in Christianity. I was an atheist and looking for a book by an intellectual (aka, someone smarter than me) who would lay out solid, logical reasons why the idea of a God and a Christian one at that was... read full review | report as inappropriate
The Language of God features the perspective of Francis Collins, a world leader in genetics and head of the Human Genome Project, on the issue of reconciling science and faith. Collins begins by explaining his own history: how he came to be... read full review | report as inappropriate
Francis Collins, an acclaimed and respected scientist and leader of the Human Genome Project, offers commentary on reconciling science, evolution, deism, and the Judeo-Christian beliefs. In the first section of the book, Collins... read full review | report as inappropriate
Author: Mary Packard, Discovery Channel - (Paperback) ... more
I purchased this book for my 10 year old nephew who loves to learn how things work. He dived right in and couldn't put it down. There are some fun experiments to try as well. This book provides a fun learning experience for the budding scientist. read full review | report as inappropriate
I had ordered this book for a 17 year old. However, when I received it, I realized it was geared more for an 8 year old - very elementary. read full review | report as inappropriate
Author: Daniel C. Dennett - (Paperback) ... more
This is a superb book about religion from Dennett, who has attained a renown as a philosopher of mind and cognitive science. He brings the tools from those disciplines to the subject of religion; in particular, he makes use of the concept of the... read full review | report as inappropriate
Dennett talks up science here but there is little evidence that cognitive psychology provides a basis for a scientific investigation of religion. Cognitive psychology (as opposed to cognitive neuroscience) has no stable results as of yet but the... read full review | report as inappropriate
This is the first book that I have read by Mr. Dennett and let me say at the outset that I am thankful that there are authors like him that are willing to take the time to "circle" a subject and view it from several different scientific,... read full review | report as inappropriate
Author: Ervin Laszlo - (Paperback) - 2007 ... more
What Did I Get Out of the Read? ------------------------------- This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read for a long time. It brought together, in one theory a lot of the loose ends of "weird" science and paranormal... read full review | report as inappropriate
This book had so many terrific reviews, albeit from questionable sources, that I thought I should read it to find out whether or not there was some recent development I was unaware of in physics. What a huge disappointment! This... read full review | report as inappropriate
This book is another illustrative example of how complex, philosophic and unrealizable to direct experience a theory-of-everything (TOE) can become once you wander too far down the wrong rabbit hole. A real theory-of-everything should be so simple... read full review | report as inappropriate
Author: Gaston Bachelard - (Paperback) ... more
Book itself was in great condition, and was waiting at home for me sooner than expected. read full review | report as inappropriate
I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book was almost incomprehensible. Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I can't read the original and compare them, but I suspect it is the translation,... read full review | report as inappropriate
I came across mention of this book in Alexander Cockburn's otherwise excellent list of the century's greatest works of non-fiction in translation. Alex, you gave me a bum steer! The jacket of this book and the reviews already posted here at Amazon... read full review | report as inappropriate
Author: Richard Rhodes - (Paperback) ... more
Few schooled in 1950-60s can fail to remember clumsy `duck-and-cover' squats choreographed in lockered hallways or under classroom desks. The nuclear age, born at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, bestowed omnipresent dread (and an... read full review | report as inappropriate
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, experiment, inner thought, etc., by physicists and... read full review | report as inappropriate
This presents a first rate history of the physics, at the layman's level, and the physicists of the early 20th century. Sadly much of the 2nd half of the book is given over to the political implications and the aftermath of bombing Japan. The... read full review | report as inappropriate
