| 11. |  | A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $18.72
Customer Review:
In this book, in vivid and virile prose, and many passages of stunning beauty, Richard Dawkins has created an illusion of certainty on one of the most critical issues of contemporary society: What does it mean to be a human being. The book is a collection of articles written over several years, with... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 12. |  | Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
from W. W. Norton
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
what all the other reviewers stated.
This work sat around the house for several months b/4 I picked it up.
Why? B/cause I did not think I was in mood to have my aging brain challenged w/things I had to suffer to understand. NOT & WRONG!
This genius writes like your favorite... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 13. |  | The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books)
from New York Review Books
Price: $12.21
Customer Review:
Freeman Dyson is a scientist. He is also a very competent and thoughtful essayist. I first came across his writings in The New York Review of Books, which are what led me to read this book. I see that several long reviews have already been posted on the subject, so I will not rehash the contents of... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 14. |  | Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
This is another book which at some point will enter our culural canon, much like Orwell's essays or Gary Zukav's _The Dancing Wu-Li Masters_.
True, as a few critics have pointed out, for some reason an essay or two drags; it's a style thing, or perhaps a scientific term here or there. But... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 15. |  | The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $11.56
Customer Review:
It's like a unique approach to morality from the psychology (?) perspective as compared with e.g., philosopher Susan Neiman's "Moral Clarity". I agree with other reviewers that it's rather a philosophic analysis of good and evil although Shermer used 8 some changing grey points between pure good and... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 16. |  | Darwin (Norton Critical Edition)
from W W Norton & Co Inc
Customer Review:
I have not read the 2nd or 3rd editions of this book. But based on the table of contents that I have seen they are even better. Appleman does a great job of organizing the material. I've often thought that the amount of religious material was a little bit overwhelming. I will probably try to pick up... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 17. |  | What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
from Harper Perennial
Price: $11.86
Customer Review:
Cool book, fast read. For some reason I had an expectation that there would be more 'Sagan-esque where science and spirit meet' (a la Contact) type answers and instead it seemed like a book edited by Madelyn O'Hair...but I really found it very interesting. Lots of the answers were so close though... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 18. |  | When Science Goes Wrong
from Plume
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
If you're like me and two of your greatest loves are books about science and reading about natural disasters and calamities... seek help. Seriously. It's just not right to have that particular set of amusements. But while you are in one of those old-fashioned "Girl: Interrupted" style mental wards,... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 19. |  | What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
from Harper Perennial
Price: $10.92
Customer Review:
This is an excellent text: brief statements by a variety of top flight scientists, giving me much more to be optimistic about! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 20. |  | The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century
from Vintage
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
This book is definitely interesting and well written, and puts forth generally plausible ideas from many bright, well respected people. A few of the ideas seem a bit hard to swallow, such as Paul Ewald claiming that many of the major human diseases, such as bipolar disorder and Alzheimer's, will be... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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