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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Charles Wheelan
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Great Economic Bok
+ Great book
+ More liberals should read it.
+ Good overview of Economics
+ Well Worth Reading - Maybe Twice!
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My View of the World
Erwin Schrodinger
Ox Bow Press, 1983
Schroedinger's thought
I had come across a bit of Schroedinger's philosophy while reading The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell. I found the paragraph to be very spiritual and very beautiful. At the time, it was a surprise to me to find that the author of the piece was one of fathers of modern quantum theory. It took me ...
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Ricky Gervais Presents: The World of Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington
Hyperion, 2006
He really does have a head shaped like a f***ing orange - it's filled with genius juice
+ Fab
+ Hilarious
+ Congratulations local boy Karl Pilkington; World's Roundest Head
+ Round Head, Funny Man
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Signet, 1996
"But I don't think of you"
+ Fountainhead
+ Why Was This Book Written?
+ Fairy Tale
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan
Ballantine Books, 1986
The Dragons of Sagan
+ A must read book
+ One fo the best, and most important books ever written
+ Great Book
+ A Great Book by Carl Sagan
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
Richard P. Feynman
Basic Books, 2005
Its title says it all and it is indeed one of the greates books I have ever read
+ If you know that you are not sure . . .
+ Enlighted thoughts of an intelligent man
Mr. Feynman wrote in this book how the basic things in life, such as its meaning if any are.
His writting style is even simpler than Einstein's while his ideas are just as profound.
The book is very thin and it is an easy read, so you learn a lot by reading very few pages and this is really ...
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Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
Harvey J. Kaye
Hill and Wang, 2006
Common Sense Society of Fort Lee NJ
+ A great book with a hidden tragic story
+ Estraordinary sense about Thomas Paine
+ A Timely Treasure
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River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series)
Richard Dawkins
Basic Books, 1996
DNA just is and we dance to its Music
+ Regarding Science-Ejected Vitalism:
+ Good Read
As mentioned in other reviews of Dawkins's books I enjoy his writing and his passion for explaining science to the general public in an understandable way. I have given this book 5 stars because of the way he explain his arguments... although I don't agree with them. Now for a reply which is ...
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Anthem
Ayn Rand
Boomer Books, 2007
Loved it
+ classic dystopian novel
+ It blew me away!
+ Easy read, great for travel or when you've got just a little time.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Broadway, 2004
like drinking out of a fire hose
+ Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything
+ ALMOST EVERYTHING
+ Entertaining and funny introduction to a lot of science fields
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Feynman was a great man
+ An adventurous and curious character.
+ A Wonderful Treatise
+ A curious character indeed, and furious
+ Feynman...The Scientific Entertainer
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Lost Horizon: A Novel
James Hilton
Harper Perennial, 2004
My favorite book of all time
+ Excellent Fantasy
+ Simple but very enchanting
+ Enchanting
+ A Classic is a Classic...
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Ballantine Books, 1997
Changed my live and views! I love you Carl!
+ A must read book
+ Still one of the best!
+ Great for polishing your skeptical skills!
+ A great rebuttal to pseudoscience and superstition.
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
If you read one book on evolution...
+ Dissecting "The Selfish Gene"
+ Life is a watch too complex to create
+ Un libro indispensable en nuestra biblioteca.
+ Why take an interest in science?
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
Steven Weinberg
Basic Books, 1993
A bang in the dawn: Physics of the origin of the universe
+ enlighting, good analysis
+ Steven Weinberg: Nobel leaureate and biographer of nature
This book in cosmology requires some knowledge in undergraduate level physics, where the author chronicles the very early history of the universe while describing the underlying physical concepts. In the light of epoch experiments to be conducted with new Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during October ...
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