Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 01:44AM This 3-part book by Oliver Sacks from 1989 reviews the history of deaf education and language, the neurological underpinnings of language acquisition and deafness, and the student uprising at Gallaudet College in 1988.
History, Non Fiction, Science Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 03:36PM Peter Watts’ Blindsight is hard SF. Normally I like hard SF but I had some trouble with this one:
Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 08:50PM This little volume is packed with an amazing amount of readable information about the history of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, libel, privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.
History, Law, Non Fiction, Politics Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 08:41PM I assigned three tags to this book review:
History, Non Fiction, Religion, War Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 10:45PM Cloning, evolution, and the Human Genome Project are often in the news. One of my 2008 New Years’ Resolutions was to learn more about genetics and molecular biology. I had resolved to “get smarter” about DNA and its role in evolution and in generation-to-generation stability and inheritance.
Non Fiction, Science Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 04:16PM “Captain” Alatriste is an ex-soldier in 17th Century Madrid who scratches out a living via odd jobs and spends part of his time gabbing and drinking at a local bar. An old “friend” tosses him a job which is initially to scare a pair of English travelers but turns out to be a contract for murder.
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 10:06PM Late 17th Century London and the Royal Society provide the setting for this book. It concentrates on the “great men” who created modern Western science.
History, Non Fiction, Science Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 09:08PM This novel follows several Confederate and Union solders during the two days of the 1862 battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
Monday, December 3, 2007 at 02:03PM Scientist Gould in this short book attempts to demonstrate both (a) how Science and Religion can learn to co-exist and (b) how efforts to control Science through Religion-imposed limits are prime examples of the two “magisteria,” as he refers to Science and Religion, transgressing on each other’s territory.
History, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Science Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 05:34AM This book is a great read if you are at all interested in the nuts and bolts of film production.
Bollywood, Movies, Non Fiction