I’ve been busy with book reviewing and updating my Science Shelf web site. Follow the link for my “What’s New” page or read on…
Click the cover images below for the newest reviews on the site.
This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist
by Eugene H. Kaplan
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
by Lee Smolin
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by Edward O. Wilson
Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister’s Wife Reexamines Faith
by Carlene Cross
Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian
by Chet Raymo (reviewed by Julie Falkner)
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