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The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos 38 reviews
Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams
Riverhead Hardcover, 2006
The View from the Center of the Universe
+ Keeping Up With the Universe
+ The View from the Center of the Universe
This is my second purchase of this book as I bought one to share. The video which comes with the book is also worthy to be shared.
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The Philosophy of History 9 reviews
Georg W. F. Hegel
Cosimo Classics, 2007
Good place to start with Hegelian philosophy
+ A great philosopher on importance of history!
+ Hegel believes Hegel is the only one who got it right
+ A view into the history of reason
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Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World43 reviews
Michael Dowd
Viking Adult, 2008
Thank God for Evolution--Michael Dowd
+ Hope
+ Thank God for Evolution
+ A Bridge Builder
+ Thank God for Evolution
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark402 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Ballantine Books, 1997
Don't believe Fundamentalist Propaganda!
+ Sagan is one of the greatest of Americans
+ Skepticism as a tool to protect our freedoms
+ A Classic About How Science Does (and Does Not) Work!
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God and the New Physics29 reviews
Paul Davies
Simon & Schuster, 1984
Modern classic
+ Still Crazy After All These Years.....
+ A Physicist Looks at the Frontiers of Science and Religion
+ To be read along with his award winning Mind of God
+ A seeker of wisdon and truth
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Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery 5 reviews
Spv U.S., 2005
Excellent must see
+ Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery has fascinating information
We loved the movie, an excellent family must see!!! The animation, imagry and sound effect were all excellent and each added to the other. We first saw the movie at our friends house, and thought we had to buy our own copy. Its interesting how much more there is to see the more times you watch ...
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The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos11 reviews
James N. Gardner
New Page Books, 2007
What else is there to think about?
+ Evolution debacle
+ stimulating speculation about the underlying nature of the cosmos
I have often wondered if there will ever be a discovery or event that will change our understanding of the nature of things so profoundly that we can never return to our previous concepts, I think this book provides that. This is the feeling I get when reading of the remarkableness and ...
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Cosmos 159 reviews
Carl Sagan
Ballantine Books, 1985
read what you can of it, but READ it!
+ This book should be required reading for anyone living on Earth.
+ A monumental achievement still relevant today
+ I'll be very quick ...
+ Masterpiece
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A Brief History of Time352 reviews
Stephen Hawking
Bantam, 1998
Transport yourself into possibility.
+ Highly recommended to everybody interested in Astronomy and Nuclear Physics
This book absolutely recreates the wonder I felt looking at the stars as a child. Stephen Hawking has a knack like no other I have read in the science world of transporting the reader to a realm of humbling amazement and possibility. Pure genius bubbling over with dry humor that will never fail to ...
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The FIFTH MIRACLE: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life33 reviews
Paul Davies
Simon & Schuster, 2000
Simply Astounding
+ Introduce yourself to a new science
+ A Fantastic Read
+ How did life on Earth originate?
+ Searching for the Laws of Life
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Equations of Eternity: Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning, and the Mathematical Rules That Orchestrate ...6 reviews
David Darling
MJF Books, 2002
Compellingly readable and profoundly interesting.
+ As It Is Within, So It Is Without
+ Speculations indeed
+ An interesting piece of literature
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion212 reviews
Michio Kaku
Anchor, 1995
Terrific popular science
+ Good for lay people
+ A good read, albeit a bit dated and rambling....
+ good read-non-genius friendly.
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The Universe in a Nutshell180 reviews
Stephen William Hawking
Bantam, 2001
Accessible Reading Coupled With Humor and Illustrations
+ Review
+ Companion to Brief History of Time
+ Still half confused and amazed
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The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World47 reviews
Paul Davies
Simon & Schuster, 1993
The Answer to Existence cannot lie in Logic alone
+ The Mind of Davies
+ Further fabulous reading on the "BIG" questions
+ Unbelieveable - I read it and it had something to say
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Cosmos: Carl Sagan (7 DVD Set)219 reviews
Robert H. Goddard
Cosmos Studios, 2002
Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVD's
+ Cosmos, Always a Thrilling Adventure
+ Simply Superb, the film, the text and the music. 10 stars !!
+ One of life's most see
+ Cosmos Video Collection
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Hyperspace39 reviews
Hyperspace
BBC Warner, 2002
Hyperspace
+ Beautiful CGI graphix, light on info
+ A very informative and entertaining DVD about the precarious human existence in the universe.
+ Hyperspace: An Introductory Styled Documentary
+ Excellent educational video for all ages!
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos56 reviews
Michio Kaku
Anchor, 2006
Very Easy to Understand
+ THANK YOU SIR !!
+ Fascinating. Impressive. Amazing!
+ interesting
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God57 reviews
Carl Sagan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2006
Brilliant
+ Buy this book!
+ Better Than Dawkins
+ Another thought provoking book by Carl Sagan
+ The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic3 reviews
Ingrid D. Rowland
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Roamin' Nolan
+ Giordanu Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic
Here Ingrid Rowland continues to demonstrate her profound mastery of the society and space of sixteenth-century Rome. Unlike most other accounts, Rowland emphasizes Bruno's role as a writer and shows that his fiery death at the stake in the Campo de' Fiori provoked change in the policy of the Roman ...
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion212 reviews
Michio Kaku
Anchor, 1995
Terrific popular science
+ Good for lay people
+ A good read, albeit a bit dated and rambling....
+ good read-non-genius friendly.
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