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05-13-2003, 05:15 AM
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recommended books
Recommended books:
The Salmon of Doubt, Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time Douglas Adams Edited by Peter Guzzardi 2002 Completely Unexpected Productions, Ltd. A compendium of variously published past articles, unpublished speeches and several tomes rescued from the hard drives of Adams personal beloved Macs including “The Salmon of Doubt” his unfinished book. Also includes Richard Dawkins’ lament from The Guardian on May 14, 2001 (after Adams’ passing on May 11), and Adams’ famous story “Cookies.” Douglas Noel Adams, born in Cambridge 1952 - “he was DNA in Cambridge nine months before Crick & Watson made their discovery.” A Brain for All Seasons Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate Change William H. Calvin 2002 The University of Chicago Press Calvin is a neurobiologist. His thesis is that rapid climate changes in the past induced the rapid evolution of the human brain AND we, as a species, need to (use our brains now to) maintain our current climate or we face terrible catastrophes. He is squarely in the global warming really means global climate change with greater swings in local weather and global warming could precipitate another European ice age. Fiction selection: Sims F. Paul Wilson 2003 F. Paul Wilson is the author of several works of fiction featuring Repair Man Jack, a tough but gentle guy given to “Equalizer” (as in the TV show of that name) type heroics. His latest book, Sims, does not feature the soon to be movie-ized Repair Man Jack. However it does provide a plot that many interest readers of this forum at II. Sims are man-made simian creatures, a product of SimGen, leased out as slave workers. The book is an interesting take on the moral implications current or near future genetic experiments in the hominid line. I found this book much better than Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio, a book which covers similar ground. |
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05-13-2003, 05:31 AM
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I'll highly recommend the same book I recommended last week on the S&S forum: Matt Ridley's Nature Via Nurture.
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05-13-2003, 11:02 AM
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It is my duty as a Pratchett fanboy to recommend these two books, which have a humorous fantasy story AND interesting scientific text.
The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart |
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