Chances Are
 One of the best popular science books of 2006: Not only does this cover some fascinating ground in probability and statistics, it is also beautifully written. After an intimidating presentation of the formula for the Law of Large Numbers, the authors say: [... more]
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The Big Questions in Science
Popular science book - inconsistent about God: In this attractively packaged collection of short articles, Harriet Swain, deputy features editor at the Times Higher Educational Supplement, has gathered together a group of distinguished thinkers to ponder [... more]
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Nexus
Networks of sex partners and the Net-Are they really related: The surprising answer is yes. I picked this book up after reading Steven Strogatz's Sync which mentions a great deal about the science of networks. Buchanan explains how networks exist [... more]
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The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari
From Amazon.com: We use the word random as though we understood what it meant, but, of course, its superficial meaning only betrays our deep ignorance of what is really going on. Random is mostly used to label anything we can't predict, from the roll of [... more]
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Creating Mind How The Brain Works
From Amazon.com: What's going on inside your head? This is one of the fundamental questions in science, and one of the toughest to answer. Neurobiologist John E. Dowling starts us down the garden path with Creating Mind, a lucid introduction to the study [... more]
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Calculus Made Easy
More interesting than crosswords: I withdrew from first year university calculus after the first lecture - it was some impossible situation involving rowing across a river. In a theatre with hundreds of not especially attentive students, it was just all [... more]
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of ...
Informative, but wearying: As with the human DNA she so effectively extols, Angier's book has a portion of useful material, but a great deal of useless "junk". An accomplished writer, she spends more ink in demonstrating those skills than in [... more]
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This Is Your Brain On Music Abridged Compact Discs
With a song in our heads: When a rock musician, a sound engineer and a neuroscientist combine their talents to explain how we think about music, it promises to be interesting. When those three individuals are present in one man who also writes well, the [... more]
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Origins of Existence : How Life Emerged in the Universe
retread: Much of the same unconvincing, rehashed theories. The only saving grace was his ideas on pre big band and future of the universe. Proper degree of complexity and multiverse are the answer.: I welcome this new book by professor Adams. While he [... more]
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Are We Unique: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled ...
From Amazon.com: The question posed in the title of James Trefil's exhilarating book conjures countless other questions regarding what makes us human--among them, what are our roles and responsibilities on Earth, and what constitutes intelligence? In his [... more]
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Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human ...
From Amazon.com: Ever since Darwin published The Descent of Man, we have wondered about the future of our species. Will we separate into H.G. Wells's Morlocks and Eloi, or will we stay pretty much the same? Biologist Christopher Wills tackles this big [... more]
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The Canon
Informative, but wearying: As with the human DNA she so effectively extols, Angier's book has a portion of useful material, but a great deal of useless "junk". An accomplished writer, she spends more ink in demonstrating those skills than in [... more]
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