Customer Review: A great review of the discovery of the expanding universe; the science is interesting and understandable for the lay person. Even more compelling is the drama of the scientists themselves, there life, personalities,strengths, foibles and their wonderful discoveries. It is science and history of... more info
Customer Review: I liked many of the pieces in this collection and detested just a few. But overall I was very disappointed since I expected essays about SCIENCE, not essays about science history, about preferring music to science, about doctors making mistakes. I'm not saying those types of essays are not... more info
Customer Review: World History of Warfare by Christon I Archer, John R. Ferris, Holger H Herwig, Timothy H. E. Travers
Review by Michael W. Brandt
The World History of Warfare is designed to be a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. I think that the authors have exceeded this modest... more info
Customer Review: With recently announced initiatives directing us to space exploration once again, with the space shuttle again in orbit, and with the recent announcement of a tenth planet discovered, it is worthwhile to look back at a piece of history in the first great era of planetary exploration, whose heyday is... more info
Customer Review: These photographs transport the reader to another world, a twilight zone where the universe meets the earth and mind....these are black and white photographs, powerful, transporting, wonderful....Neil Folberg has captured the mysterious power of a sacred place and made marvelous photographs.... more info
Customer Review: Even though astronomer Timothy Ferris edited this collection of 2001 science articles, the emphasis is on biological rather than physical sciences. Some of the essays describe the way science is done, and the ways that ignorance or politics can interfere with its results.
Customer Review: Why reach for the moon when you can have the stars? And a few planets, some black holes, assorted gamma-ray busters and a nebula or two? What may sound like a boring (read: unreadable) subject --- a series of 30something essays penned by the editors of "Scientific American" magazine --- is actually... more info
Customer Review: A beautiful collection of nicely explained photos from space and of space. Everything from auroras to astronauts to eclipses, paired with a few paragraphs explaining each photo.
