History & Philosophy Books

As a professional musician and a medical doctor, I must say it is the best book on music - in all its facets - that I've ever read.
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I, too, found the endless name-dropping endlessly irritating. As to the rest - I leave it to the more knowledgeable among us. However, I do recommend reading ALL the reviews before reading the book.

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and apparently this book is aimed at me, a member of the general public who, the author asserts, is an expert at listening to music, if not a musician. well, i am a biologist, so the neuroscience isn't new to me, and i have to say that i was...
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Dr. Collins does a wonderful job of laying out the issues and arguments from both sides in very clear, understandable and compelling fashion. A must read for anyone interested in finding common ground in what shouldn't be a raging emotional debate.
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Dr. Collins' scientific credentials are impressive, but this book is just not convincing. I lost my (tenuous faith) in 2006 after reading a variety of atheist books like The God Delusion and Letter to a Christian Nation. I decided to give a...
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This book as much to offer, including observations that should be axiomatic to all people: Truth is truth. True religion doesn't conflict with true science, or true biology, or true anything else. Also: it does not serve God or the faithful to...
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I found that Guns, Germs, & Steel filled in a lot of missing pieces but the best thing was it gives a fresh outlook on why we have so many equalities among races. Until we find hard evidence we will continue to believe some of the old racist...
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Great book but it easily could have been reduced to 30 % of it's size. It got so repetitive that I thought I had actually lost my page and wound up at an earlier chapter. This author completely beats his topics to death. Had I known what I was...
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Guns, Germs and Steel is a scientific historical treatment on the rise and fall of civilizations and the reasons why the western world is considered successful. In many ways Jared Diamond has built a city with one stone. He has established the...
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An important book on an important subject. A fabulous book that puts together research and science about the power of thought as a reality-maker.Coupled with another favorite of mine that I use daily,Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret WorkbookI...
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The book spends all but a few chapters as a reference of all the previous studies done to show that intention and thought does affect our physical world. I've read almost every one of the books written on all those experiments, so it was a bit...
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I am drawn to books of this nature yet I find that they are at times lacking.
Now I realize that reading books give you only one point of view, you have to experience things yourself or the books are just words.
Though I like this book...
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I bought this book without ever having seen the show, thinking it was *just* the thing for my 8-10 yo Cub Scouts. I couldn't have been more right! I was surprised to learn they *all* watch it, and love the show, so I made sure to catch it for...
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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.
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Logically demolishes theism. Therefore, will have no effect on theists, but one can always hope.
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I want to ask all of the educated atheists one simple question: If there is no evidence for God and He does not exist, why bother writing all these books? Why do you pontificate on all of your theories and "facts" and "new discoveries" if there is...
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Who can disprove me, and why should anyone even care to?

All desperate yearning for purpose and meaning aside, this seems such a useless pursuit. I keep my rating in the middle, on account of the possibility that all of these God...
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I am an amateur scholar of the Manhattan Project, its consequences and the weapons programmes of other nations. I have approx. 3 metres of book shelf space devoted these topics. This volume is Rhodes' masterwork, the best, most comprehensive book...
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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...
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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...
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As a professional musician and a medical doctor, I must say it is the best book on music - in all its facets - that I've ever read.
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I, too, found the endless name-dropping endlessly irritating. As to the rest - I leave it to the more knowledgeable among us. However, I do recommend reading ALL the reviews before reading the book.

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and apparently this book is aimed at me, a member of the general public who, the author asserts, is an expert at listening to music, if not a musician. well, i am a biologist, so the neuroscience isn't new to me, and i have to say that i was...
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