The Two Cultures
 Far better than I thought: Every representation I've seen of this work was wrong, or so incomplete as to be gravely misleading. As usual, the glib sound-biters omit not only the interesting parts of the points they quote, they omit the real point of the [... more]
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Wonder Boys: A Novel
Wonderful "Boys": Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon deftly avoided the sophomore slump with "Wonder Boys," a followup to the unique "Mysteries of Pittsburgh." A wickedly funny and weirdly satirical novel, this is the [... more]
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Cosm
From Amazon.com: Alicia Butterworth is a physicist from U.C. Irvine who's trying to re-create the conditions that existed just before the big bang using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island. Something goes wrong during one of the collider [... more]
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Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo ...
Art and Science Synthesized in Leonardo's Mind and Method: This is a genuinely astonishing book. Its essential idea is that the dichotomy between art and science is a relatively modern idea, that the distinction is not present in Leonardo's method of [... more]
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Wonder Boys
Wonderful "Boys": Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon deftly avoided the sophomore slump with "Wonder Boys," a followup to the unique "Mysteries of Pittsburgh." A wickedly funny and weirdly satirical novel, this is the [... more]
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Einstein's Dreams
From Amazon.com: If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches [... more]
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Portrait Of A Lady
A Supreme Television Achievement: C. P. Snow, the internationally acclaimed writer, states that this production of The Portrait of a Lady "became a supreme television achievement, aesthetically and in all other ways." See C. P. Snow, THE [... more]
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Combining Two Cultures: McMaster University's Arts and ...
Recommended Reading: Combining Two Cultures effectively begins to unravel the mystery behind the popular Arts and Science Programme. In a time where most undergraduate programs are filled with dissatisfied and disillusioned students, the glowing [... more]
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A Mathematician's Apology
From Amazon.com: A Mathematician's Apology is a profoundly sad book, the memoir of a man who has reached the end of his ambition, who can no longer effectively practice the art that has consumed him since he was a boy. But at the same time, it is a [... more]
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Math And The Mona Lisa
Art and Science Synthesized in Leonardo's Mind and Method: This is a genuinely astonishing book. Its essential idea is that the dichotomy between art and science is a relatively modern idea, that the distinction is not present in Leonardo's method of [... more]
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Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
From Amazon.com: In this treatise on the central role of science, John Brockman contends that science is becoming the predominant culture and scientists are taking the place of traditional intellectuals in answering the important questions facing [... more]
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The Masters
Genuine classic: I'd urge you to read this one. Few people describe the inner life of men, or at least his class of 20th century Englishman, so well as Snow. The characterisations are the strength, all vanities and motivations probed as if by a surgeon, [... more]
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