| 1. |  | A Short History of Nearly Everything
from Random House Audio
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
Let me start by saying that this was one of the most interesting and enjoyable books I have ever read!
The author starts by explaining the beginning of the universe and he discusses it in a very intriguing and easy to understand way. The truly "astronomical" numbers are put into interesting... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. | ![]() | Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
from W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)
Customer Review:
With over 1,000 reviews on Amazon it is quite unlikely you will read anything different in my review than all the other five star reviews. I must say that Jared Diamond has written an extraordinary book. The question he tackles with GGS is, "Why and how did wealth and power develop in some areas and... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
from W.W. Norton & Co.
Price: $34.65
Customer Review:
This is a fascinating book, but one that could be improved. However, the positive (FOR, below) much outweighs the negative (AGAINST, below).
FOR: This book is full of interesting material, most of which is well explained. It follows how eusocial insects construct complex insect societies that... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $13.59
Customer Review:
This book puts the body of knowledge in evolutionary biology in the right perspective. Because we are macro beings, because we in this society live and deal at organism level, so we tend to believe that everything revolves around this level. What this book does is to encourage you to think form the... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)
from Vintage
Price: $9.86
Customer Review:
As assigned reading for a book club, Your Inner Fish became for me a page-turning, fascinating read with enough described real-life excitement to generate my own mind-expeditions through the Arctic, voyages to the cliffs of Nova Scotia, and tedious hours in labs carefully excavating fragile fossil... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Developing Person Through the Life Span (paper)
from Worth Publishers
Price: $91.82
Customer Review:
I am taking a psychology class on line using this book. I was anxious for the class to start as I thought the subject material would be interesting. It is, and the book is well written and informative. However, now that the class is in its last 3 or 4 weeks, I'm getting a little tired.
Each... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles
from Mountain of Love
Price: $25.00
Customer Review:
Dr. Lipton is truely brilliant.
I'm a medical student. I'm also a shamanic healer, who works with energy work and herbal and thought therapy with her clients. This ties the two together perfectly, explaining how my two worlds, who for some reason oppose eachother greatly, actually blend so... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Molecular Biology of the Cell
from Garland Science
Price: $109.99
Customer Review:
This is, by far, the most well known and most widely used textbook for molecular biology; and there is a reason it is. This text is extremely comprehensive and covers just about every topic you can think of that is related to molecular biology/cytology. Although before you try to conquer this... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. | ![]() | Microbiology (The Benjamin / Cummings series in the life sciences)
from Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co.,Subs. of Addison Wesley Longman,US
Customer Review:
Shipping was a little slow due to seller being gone on vacation. However, I still received it in time, and am pleased overall. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
from W. W. Norton
Price: $18.45
Customer Review:
It teaches you to optimize your outcome from a mathematical logic. Progressive knowledge is well written with simple life examples and experiences, which is later supported by scientific reason. It requires basic math and interest.
You don't have to be in a Businsss Major to appreciate this... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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