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1.The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by: Thomas L. Friedman July 24, 2007
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This is pretty typical business journalism, which seems to be in the mold of the last round of "sky is falling" business journalism from the 1980's...when Japan was going to rule the world. I thought this book was going to be something new, but its just the same-old, same-old: US jobs are going oversees, we don't have enough engineers, republicans are ruining the country, blah, blah, blah. Also, the book is pretty sloppy: its overly long and redundant, and the "research" is not at all comprehensive or balanced, but mostly just opinion from various business honchos with views biased by their own business interests. It is written from a very U.S.-centric view of the world, namely that the role of the rest of the world is to do the grunt work that we're too talented and creative ... Read More

2.A Short History of Nearly Everything by: Bill Bryson September 14, 2004
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Bryson does a great job of compiling a huge amount of information into a mere 475 pages. It is well organized, easy to read, and surprisingly enjoyable considering the complexity of certain topics. While some subjects, like geology, microbiology and atomic structure were a bit tedious, I really enjoyed reading about astronomy and especially anthropology (my favorite class in college). This comprehensive book embarks upon the history of the world we live in, from the nothingness of a pre-Big Bang universe, to the atoms that compose everything, to the primordial soup that yielded life, and to our most ancient hominid ancestors. What makes this book work is not that Bryson presents the history of nearly everything, but how these everythings were discovered. He investigates the history of exploration and ... Read More

3.The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by: Leonard Susskind July 07, 2008
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Quantum theory seems to work mathematically, but verbal descriptions have left most of us scratching our heads at the paradoxes. Suskind has excellent analogies and descriptions that minimize (though can't elemeninate) some of these problems. His knack for using one- and two-dimensional worlds to describe the "real" world are especially enlightening and understandable.

4.The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by: Simon Winchester May 06, 2008
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Joseph Needham was a bright, elegant, sophisticated scientist with an impeccable pedigree. His work in Cambridge was in biochemistry, a profoundly intense field, and he was a huge and influential success. He was a freethinking intellectual, however, who had predilections for both the decidedly base love of nudism and unique brands of folk dance. With this wide range of interests, he attracted a great deal of attention from colleagues and friends --- and, although married at the time, lovers as well. In 1937 he met Lu Gwei-djen, a Chinese scientist, and they embarked on a long-term, long-distance relationship that first brought him into contact with his beloved China. Simon Winchester, esteemed author of THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMEN, brings Needam's story and the love that created his most lasting accomplishments to light ... Read More

5.Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by: Jared Diamond July 11, 2005
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This book is interesting for those who prefer non-fiction. I bought this book for a friend.

6.The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by: Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams April 15, 2008
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I read this book about a month before I submitted my dissertation (in U.S. history) and it convinced me to completely rewrite my introduction. That experience left me kicking myself for thinking I was too advanced for these sorts of guides and for not consulting this book earlier. The sections on formulating a topic (how to turn a general interest into a question/problem to be researched) and warrants (how to match claims to evidence) are especially helpful. Make no mistake about it, this book can help researchers at all levels, and I have had many students, both undergraduate and graduate, tell me how happy they were that they took my advice to read this book.

7.Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century by: David Blume November 01, 2007
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This book delves into the kind of information that could help us avoid making the same mistakes over and over. If it can help create awareness of how susceptible the public is to being flim-flammed by the Oil Industry experts and its sycophants imbedded throughout the government and media we could clean this mess up. The book shows that it was the oil interests who politicized energy not the author of this book. Contrary to the specious complaints of some, this book doesn't pretend to be a "How To" book on making alcohol out of fruit... which is plain from a quick look at the table of contents. Try a brewers store. Besides it is illegal to make alcohol in any useful quantities without an expensive license...ever heard of the ATF? ...good grief

8.The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by: Richard Dawkins May 25, 2006
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If you want to learn about evolution, this is the first book you should read. If you think you know evolution, this is the book you need to read.

9.Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor by: Roy Spencer March 27, 2008
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Dr. Spencer lays out his objectives for the book in the introduction which primarily is to provide climate information to climate lay people (which is most everyone on the planet). I found this book to be very informative regarding the atmosphere, basic weather (energy, wind, currents, temperature, etc.), theories of global warming, government policy creation, and overall just how much is unknown about warming, weather, and climate change. He also provides information on his experience working for the government and his experience with environmentalists (including Al Gore) and alarmists. As a bonus Dr. Spencer has a chapter on basic economics (related to policy creation) that should be required reading for all. I would recommend this book.

10.Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by: Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn May 14, 2008
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Any prospective reader of this book should first read Hubbard's How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (for that matter, Christensen would have written a better book if he read Hubbard, too). Christensen rightly disputes some academic measurements, but too quickly dismisses better methods. Apart from what he could have done better on the measurement issue, he makes a passionate case for getting out of the rut education finds itself in. Some of the recommendations might strike a business person or educator as a little impractical, but I think there is an interesting opportunity in every solution he proposes. True, there is a large genre of books about the need for change in education, but few take this angle. No educator's library should be without it.

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