Recommend your favorite Science or Technology book.

Discussion in 'Science and Technology' started by TerriO, Mar 15, 2006.

  1. publiusr

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    New book on time’s arrow:

    The Janus Point

    A nice restoration
     
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  2. Jason Trout

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    We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's

    This controversial Dutch doctor says that everything about human beings can be explained by the biology of our brains. It was interesting, for example, to read that natural labor is triggered by the baby's brain communicating with the mother's brain, when the mother can no longer provide enough nutrition to sustain the baby. He is also quite matter-of-fact about gender orientation being determined in the brain before birth. He condemns boxing, which is quite popular in where I live, as a form on inflicting deliberate neurological damage on one another and says that all religious experiences can be explained as hallucinations. He also explains the biology of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Any paper of this book is a very readable, even funny toward the end of many chapters.

    In the end I did really enjoy reading this book. A lot of the things that Swaab writes about are from his own experience, which results in a fascination for his dedication to research. On the other hand he does tend to turn down the beliefs of some other scientists, which bothered me at first. However the extremely sassy manner in which he does this makes him seem less serious, which works really well for the entertainment that this book offers.
     
  3. Colonel Midnight

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    The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

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  4. Jim Klag

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    Awesome book. On my all-time favorires list.
     
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  5. Gingerbread Demon

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    I like this I must hunt this one down
     
  6. publiusr

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    I also have his DARK SUN somewhere
     
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    I really like the geology and paleontology fields, so one of my favorite science books is A Guide to Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of Southwest Virginia. It's not very well known, so I'm going to guess that probably no one else has heard of this one.
     
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    "What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks: More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics" was pretty fun.
     
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    Now I read 'Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review'.
    I work as a mobile app developer, so sometimes I read books about AI. Also, I read blogs like https://madappgang.com/blog/how-to-develop-a-medicine-delivery-app/ this post about application development.
    I think that it's a great way to share your knowledge and experience, and reading such articles is worth it.
     
  11. NCC-73515

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    Wehner/Gehring: Zoology
    Schlegel/Fuchs: General Microbiology
    Knippers: Molecular Genetics
    Silbernagl/Despopoulos: Pocket Atlas Physiology
    Liem/Bemis/Walker/Grande: Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates
    Kandel/Schwartz/Jessell: Principles of Neural Science
    Bear/Connors/Paradiso: Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain
    Nieuwenhuys/Donkelaar/Nicholson: The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates
    Nieuwenhuys/Voogd/Huijzen: The Human Central Nervous System
    Valerius/Duncker: Photo Atlas Neuroanatomy
    Schoonover: Portraits of the Mind

    And some of the Haynes Manuals: Apollo 11, Space Shuttle, Bird of Prey, USS Enterprise, DeLorean Time Machine
     
  12. Azat

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    Thanks a lot for help!
     
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    Thanks a lot for help!
     
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  16. publiusr

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    Now this is a nice space library


    Adopt me, Johnathan?

    No, on second thought—forbid me entrance!

    If ever I walked in there…a pipe would burst upstairs,

    I should know…I hate being poor.