Biography - Burke, James (1936-): An article from: ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 8 Publication Date: 2005-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Circles : Fifty Roundtrips Through History Technology ...
Amazon.com Review: Unlike Perry Mason, James Burke does not try to assemble watertight (if convoluted) cases. His essays in the history of technology are more like random walks, paeans to serendipity. In The Knowledge Web Burke attempted to duplicate on [... more]
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Twin Tracks : The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World
Amazon.com Review: James Burke, author and public television star, returns with another quirky look at the way history works. In Twin Tracks, Burke connects "trigger events" with unexpected outcomes. For instance, the invention of the lens- [... more]
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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope ...
One Of The Better: Burke has a way of making history, science, and the human condition fun while telling you something that makes you think about it. The Day The Universe Changed shows, as Burke has become known for, connections between many aspects of [... more]
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Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World
Amazon.com Review: James Burke, author and public television star, returns with another quirky look at the way history works. In Twin Tracks, Burke connects "trigger events" with unexpected outcomes. For instance, the invention of the lens- [... more]
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Connections
Amazon.com Review: You can make all the plans you will, plot to make a fortune in the commodities market, speculate on developing trends: all will likely come to naught, for "however carefully you plan for the future, someone else's actions will [... more]
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The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge ...
Amazon.com Review: How is vivisection related to Stonehenge? It might take a few leaps of history, but you'll find the answer in The Knowledge Web, another of science historian James Burke's compelling collections of circular narratives that have [... more]
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Jolie Blon's Bounce
Amazon.com Review: Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana cop who's easily one of the most complex and compelling protagonists in mystery fiction, confronts his own demons as well as a brutal adversary who might be the devil himself in this dark thriller. This [... more]
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The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made ...
Amazon.com Review: Follow the bouncing ball, James Burke-style: spice trading in the Middle Ages leads to the European tea-drinking craze, which helps instigate the development of the science of natural history, which in turns inspires the creation of [... more]
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Connections
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.
Useless exercise in connect-the-dots: I have read several of James Burke's earlier works, and I had hoped that his venture into my own field would illuminate a subject in ways that would not have occurred to conventional historians. Unfortunately, this [... more]
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In the Moon of Red Ponies: A Novel (Burke, James Lee)
Billy Bob and Temple just can't cut it: Having become a James Lee Burke junkie over the last year, I couldn't wait to read "Moon". What a disappointment. Billy Bob and Temple in Montana just can't compare to Dave and Bootsie in Louisiana! The [... more]
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