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Dexter in the Dark: A Novel
Jeff Lindsay
Doubleday, 2007
GO DEXTER!!!
I first started watching the series on Showtime and was hooked. I bought the first season DVD and all the books.
I am going to buy the second season DVD as well.
The show is VERY GOOD!! It keeps you on the edge of your seat. The character Dexter is likeable yet ...
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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ...
Lawrence Solomon
Richard Vigilante Books, 2008
Science, Not Hysteria
A fact based look at global warming, not a repeat of the political mantra of the day.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2004
The Other Side of Ben Franklin
When I took US History in College, the various instructors took pot shots at Benjamin Franklin, not really giving the poor old guy a chance. This book give a more balanced look at Ben's whole life and the events that changed his outlook on life. I still take to heart ...
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks
Hyperion, 2007
Good personal account of schizophrenia
This was a great story of one womans struggle with coming to terms with mental illness and trying to maintain her life. It was both encouraging that she was able to finally overcome the illness to create a successful career and personal life, and at the same time ...
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Francis S. Collins
Free Press, 2007
Don't bother reading the reviews... just BUY it!
This book touches on an issue that is near and dear to me lately in my personal search for truth, namely the relationship between Christianity and Science. Simply put, the heart of the debate lies in how one interprets the scientific data that is available and the ...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the ...
Simon Winchester
Harper, 2008
important and valuable book by a master biographer
China is a vast country, and Joseph Needham (1900-95) was and remains a man so much larger than life that the two seem very well suited to each other. I remember Needham as the Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University when I matriculated there as a ...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Forever a rebel
The virtue of Walter Isaacson's _Einstein_ is that Isaacson had access to all of Einstein's surviving correspondence, much of which has only become available recently.
Readers who are interested in the intimate details of Einstein's far-from-perfect personal life ...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sudhir Venkatesh
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Fascinating and Educational--Great Insight!
This is a fascinating book about a sociology student doing research in a low-income project in Chicago to find out how it feels to be black and poor and how they survive. He started with a questionnaire, but after getting laughed at and challenged to hang out with the ...
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking Adult, 2008
Great book
How often do you get to hear a neuroscientist describe her own stroke?
This is an amazing story on three levels; physical, emotional, and spiritual. Dr. Jill description of her eight year recovery is both uplifting and powerful. But the spiritual aspect is alone ...
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion, 2008
A Timeless Classic
First off, let me say that this is my first review of a book on Amazon. You could say that I was overwhelmed by compulsion to write one.
The most important things about this book, in my opinion, will largely be insufficient to most readers, indeed my thoughts ...
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
The genius of curiosity...
For a physicist Mr. Feynman was a fantastically curious individual. Although, compulsive and a bit "different" his passion for life and curiosity with the world around him were remarkable. His wit and wisdom along with stories of his antics and general mischief acted ...
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
If you suffer from depression read this book
This is the best book I have ever read on depression. I have read and re read it several times. The fact that Styron is such a good writer is what makes this so informative. And as someone else pointed out the fact that the book is small and short helps also. It is ...
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LSD: My Problem Child
Albert Hofmann
MAPS, 2005
a third way through book. fascinating. RIP Albert
Clears up a lot of the misconceptions. Got book through drug legalization lobby I give money to. What a Brilliant guy!!
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
bnpublishing, 2007
The Practical Theoretician
This is a great book which surfaces Tesla's biography, image of himself and of his internal mental processes. The way Tesla outlines his own internal thought processes and psychology is deeply interesting. I think anyone who aspires to be an inventory would be ...
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C.G. Jung
Vintage, 1989
Intensity-his mind was flooded with profound ideas
This book is sublime, a GEM. In his subjective view of the world -"with half closed eyes and somewhat closed ears, to see and hear the form and voice of being" he arrived at an inspiring insight about life: supreme meaning of being can consist only in the fact that ...
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