books about: mathematics     books:     Mathematics      The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review Graduate Management Admission, 2005 Honest Review of GMAT Books! After going through all the GMAT books, here is my honest opinion about some of the most popular GMAT books: Official Guide: Pros - Excellent source of GMAT questions. Very well organized with real test like questions. Cons - No review of any math content or ...             Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things William McDonough, Michael Braungart North Point Press, 2002 solutions for a future this book introduces one to a new way of making things and eliminating the worry about pollution and garbage. It should be read by every manufacturer, politician, teacher, parent... in short by everyone who lives on this planet!!!!! it shows the right approach to ...             The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Pantheon, 2008 Thought-Provoking Examples of Randomness in Our Lives Instead of repeating other reviewers, let's focus on other content. Arguments about the astronomical improbably of a DNA chance match are disingenuous. A false match can also occur because of lab error, and this is far, far more likely than a genuine DNA chance ...             Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow, 2006 Surprised I had to buy this book for a class and was surprised at how much I liked it.             A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Broadway, 2004 Great Book If you liked science in middle school and high school, you'll enjoy learning both the humorous and the more scientific back stories of those science classes of old. If you didn't like science in high school, you are bound to enjoy the humorous anecdotes and the zeal ...             Biology Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece Benjamin Cummings, 2004 Great Book This book is way more informative than my professor. Also, since introductory biology doesn't change within a couple of years, I'm really glad I saved money and purchased the seventh edition rather than the eighth.             The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 A unique, entertaining story. This story, though not actually a mystery, captivated me from the very beginning. Seeing the world through Christopher's eyes is both entertaining and educational. I've never read anything like this before. It's both simple and complex at the same time. I'm suggesting ...             The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics Leonard Susskind Little, Brown and Company, 2008 The history is ultimately written by the winners Leonard Susskind is not only a co-father of string theory, the holographic principle, and many other key concepts of physics but also one of the most original physicists of our era. He's been fighting against some superficially plausible but fundamentally wrong ...             Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond W. W. Norton, 2005 The foundation for understanding, not just history, but humanity. I can't add much to the good reviews, but I wanted to suggest that if your child is taking history in school or shows an interest before that, please buy them this book. This action will reflect the main premise of this theory, it will create the environment for ...             Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided ... Roy Spencer Encounter Books, 2008 A Climatologist's View on Global Warming Hysteria Endorsed by both MIT Climate Scientist Richard Lindzen and laissez-faire economist Walter E. Williams, this book is another great addition to the growing number of books that debunking the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming hysteria. This book is *not* written ...             Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA Richard C. Hoagland, Mike Bara Feral House, 2007 Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA This is Richard Hoagland's best book ever and also confirms what I had suspected for many years. As a retired USAF Colonel, I have heard and seen many things of great "interest". As a pilot for 44 years, I have also heard and seen many things of even greater interest. ...             FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the General Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (F E Review Manual), 2nd ... Michael R. Lindeburg Professional Publications (CA), 2006 Great tool for preparation This is a great book for preparing for the General portion of the FE/EIT exam. I highly recommend it. Make sure you give yourself enough time to work through the entire book. It's better to over-prepare for this test, because after all, if you are an engineer, then ...             The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't ... Mark Bauerlein Tarcher, 2008 Insightful and important analysis... Educators and parents need to hear Mark Bauerlein's message. With all the resources available via digital technology to today's youth, most of them are not benefiting from it intellectually. Why is this? According to Bauerlein, it is largely because of the way this ...             The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 A lovely collection of scientific literature Richard Dawkins has become something of an institution with his interest in biology, atheism, evolution, creationism, and religion. Its a great joy to review one of his books without having to worry about offending the proponents of creationism and intelligent design. ...             Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin Pantheon, 2008 Making fossils rock! Upon reading the preceding, uniformly glowing reviews, I couldn't help but wonder if maybe they were written by friends of the author - this is a book by a fish paleontologist, after all. But even after a few pages, I could understand the enthusiasm. 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