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Reviewed by Connie Anderson
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood by Bill Hayes started because the author cut his finger. What followed is fascinating nonfiction that explores…
Janelle Martin
"Earth's thermostat is a complex and delicate mechanism, at the heart of which lies carbon dioxide...."
Tim Flannery poses the question, "Is climate change a terrible threat or a…
Reviewed by Muhammed Hassanali
Dieter Meschede's book Optics, Light and Lasers seems to be divided into three main sections: Chapters 1-6 cover optics; Chapters 7-11 cover lasers and their…
Reviewed by Alex McGilvery
Subtitled: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Programming the Universe is an introduction to the world of quantum computing. In fact Seth Lloyd is a…
Reviewed by Maria Hoeffer
Fungus. The mere word brings up stomach-turning images of hideous growths infesting the most unclean of bathrooms and refrigerators. But as Lucy Kavaler so…
Review by Steven King, MBA
Subtitled: A Story of Discovery, Adversity, and Ongoing Exploration
Plato, the brilliant Greek philosopher, rightly concluded, “Astronomy compels the soul…
Reviewed by Diane Snyder
This is a mind-boggling read.
Author Weisman presents the question of what would happen to the world if humans were suddenly gone–as if some disease or…
Reviewed by Laura Langer
Subtitled: The Brain, the Mind, And What It Means to Be Human
Sternberg’s book examines the question of what makes us human, and more specifically what makes…
Subtitled: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
The prologue in An Ocean of Air recounts Captain Kittinger’s extraordinary parachute…
Subtitled: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries
This book outlines 99 of the “most significant”…
Reviewed by Carrie Spellman
In July of 2004 paleontologist Neil Shubin and his team discovered a fossil that bridged the gap between fish and land-living animals. It was, and is, the fossil…
Most of us tend to think of ourselves as one individual, a consistent self. In Multiplicity, Carter argues that we consist of a group of unique personalities…
Reviewed by Brent and Jamie Driggers
The word and the organism, E. coli, can strike fear in the hearts of many. Food poisoning outbreaks! Drug resistance! Of course the organism is also a…
Reviewed by Patty Inglish, MS
Leonard Susskind is a famous name, that of the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he researches particle physics, string theory, and…
Reviewed by Gene Hayworth
“Orientation,” the introductory chapter to Christopher Potter’s new book You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe, contains twenty-two…
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