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The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone
Kenneth W. Ford
Harvard University Press, 2005
Review By a Non-Physicist
Three themes are intertwined throughout this book:
1. Historical and biographical data on the men who, over about 50 years, discovered and described the weird world of quantum phenomenon and particle physics. The use of common sense had to be suspended during these ...
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One Writer's Beginnings (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
Eudora Welty
Harvard University Press, 1998
To learn to listen for the stories
This is an outstanding memoir. In telling of her own development as a writer Welty devotes much time to telling the story of her parents, and their families. She writes of them with respect, understanding and appreciation. She also by telling the story of the families ...
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How Judges Think
Richard A. Posner
Harvard University Press, 2008
A Must Read for Any Trial Lawyer
Posner brings his esteemed credentials as a circuit judge and authorative author to tackle the ultimate question: how do judges really make their decisions. Is it based strictly on the law and the facts of the case, or, as we are taught in law school, does it ...
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Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
Kate Jackson
Harvard University Press, 2008
Fieldwork was never so compelling...
Mean and Lowly Things is a gripping firsthand account of Kate Jackson's adventures as a herpetological fieldworker in the Congo. While the book provides the reader with scientific detail it's written in a style which brings the experience of conducting field research ...
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
Carol Gilligan
Harvard University Press, 1993
"I get it"
I actually am still reading this book because I am taking my time digesting it all. It's really giving me insight on how women's thoughts and opinions have been influenced from birth. It's helping me validate my own feelings and opinions.
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Leadership Without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz
Harvard University Press, 1998
Exceptional from start to finish
I read this book in 1994 when it was first published and then again recently. It is excellent and establishes a philosophical approach to leadership that is grounded in problem solving rather than visionary mission. The visionary hero is a threat to democracy as ...
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What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain
Harvard University Press, 2004
Excellent book for college instructors
I heard about this book at a small conference, checked it out of our university library, read one chapter and ordered a copy for myself. You'll easily come away with two or more ideas to better yourself -- a great book. I'm keeping this one in my personal library.
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Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
L. S. Vygotsky
Harvard University Press, 1978
Socio-historical psychology
This is one of the earliest and still one of the best introductions to socio-historical psychology, the study of how individual human intelligence develops in interaction with people and the environment. In concert with many contemporary approaches in cognitive ...
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On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University Press, 2004
Thought provoking in every page
It is rare that I read a book which makes me stop and think at every page. Littered with deep insights and interesting information, and still an easy read. E.O. Wilson projects a briliant mind that knows how to express and communicate his thoughts to any reader. Being ...
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A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It
Paul C. Light
Harvard University Press, 2008
Why public service matters
This is a very important book. Public service is nothing short of a life and death matter for any country. Unfortunately, there is little attention in official Washington to finding ways to make the civil service better. Paul Light is an exception. He used to run a ...
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The Strategy of Conflict
Thomas C. Schelling
Harvard University Press, 2007
Everyone should read this book
"The Strategy of Conflict" changed the development of game theory in several ways, but none was more important than Schelling's focus on real life examples, situations or games that are relevant to what we encounter in our daily lives. Before Schelling, game theory ...
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The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development
Robert Kegan
Harvard University Press, 1982
A Developmental Masterpiece
The Evolving Self is one of the best books that I have ever read. Kegan's eloquent presentation of the dynamic process of human consciousness evolution is incredible. Kegan presents the very best of developmental theory, while at the same time acknowledging and ...
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Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology: Sixth Edition (Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology)
Robert A. Novelline
Harvard University Press, 2004
I will buy it
I am a medical student taking my radiology elective (finally) in the spring of my fourth year. Our department loaned the book to us during the rotation. I've found it to be one of those few books that I will actually purchase to have on my shelf at home (and I'm NOT ...
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Understanding Privacy
Daniel J. Solove
Harvard University Press, 2008
Masterful Exploration of Privacy and Why It Matters
It can often seem that we have no secrets--students trumpet their relationship status and crushes on Facebook, data brokers sell our Social Security numbers for a small fee, grocery stores know our eating habits and can guess to the dime what we will appear in our ...
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Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Ernest Freeberg
Harvard University Press, 2008
A Great Story for Our Time
This is a superb book about an extraordinary figure--labor organizer, Socialist party leader, and five-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs--during an intensely controversial period of his life. At age 63 and in poor health, Debs was convicted (under the new and ...
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