Physics of the Impossible
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Book Reviews | 2 Comments »Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel Michio Kaku presents concepts familiar to both casual and hard-core sci-fi fans alike and discusses the possibility of them happening. Each concept fits ...
The Long Tail
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in Book Reviews | No Comments »Chris Anderson has written a book that took an interesting idea and then beat the heck out of it. That said, there was enough incremental information over the original Wired article about the book to make it worth a read. I ...
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in Book Reviews | No Comments »"Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place," according to Michael Pollan. This said after he created a meal entirely by hunting and gathering the food himself. Of the meals explored in this book, this surely seemed ...
The Myths of Innovation
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 Posted in Book Reviews | No Comments »August 25, 2007 I finished the book today and am giving it the 4 star rating above. I really liked how each chapter explained a particular myth and explored the causes of it. In some chapters, there was more practical ...
Thunderstruck
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 Posted in Book Reviews | No Comments »After reading The Devil in the White City, I thought that I would read another book by Erik Larson that sounded like it had similar qualities. Thunderstruck is the two stories of Marconi and his quest to deliver wireless communication ...
The Devil in the White City
Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Book Reviews | No Comments »The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson tells the parallel tales of Chicago winning and developing the site for the 1893 World's Fair and the tale of a serial murder who utilized the fair as a tool to ...