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Six Nonfiction works from my TBR List
1. The Canon
2. The Planets
3. Lost for Words
4. Salt
5. Basque History of the World
6. Perfect Summer ... book don't build on each other, other classification tricks are available. For example, I've got on my shelf a book called The Canon, by Natalie Angier, in which each chapter focuses on a different field of science (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.). Nobody tries to figure out which one of ... The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
and
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
... reads have all been pretty engaging, but I admit that there's one book that I simply have been unable to get through.
The Canon by Natalie Angier has waylaid me, and I'm a little sad that I spent some of my holiday gift certificates on it. She has very engaging prose, but I can't get the ... Top 5 in rough order were:
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin - The evolutionary history of human anatomy.
The Canon by Natalie Angier - overview of one or two main topics in several fields of modern science.
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman - investigates humanity's effect ... ... by Shirin Ebadi
5. 400 Language: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
6. 500 Natural Sciences & Math: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
7. 600 Technology: Julie and Julia by Julie Powell or The $64 Tomato by William Alexand ... The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier. I WANTED to like it. I TRIED to like it. But UGH!! 45. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier 5/5 ... The Mind Of The Great Genius Of The Renaissance - Fritjof Capra
The Future Eaters - Tim Flannery (read September 2009)
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour Of The Beautiful Basics Of Science - Natalie Angier
Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, A Scientist, And A Search For The World's Most Extraordin ... I found Natalie Angier's The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science much like Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, without some of the problems Bryson's book has. ... listening to a lot of audio short stories so that's hurting the totals a bit.
My three favorites for the quarter:
1) The Canon
2) The Forever War
3) Castle Waiting "After all, we're stuck in our skulls for the whole four-score sentence of sentience."
The Canon, Natalie Angier 500 The Canon, A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, this book presents a quick overview of one or more of the major basic concepts in several fields of science. There's chapters on math, statistics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and physics.
Because it covers topics ... 22) The Canon by Natalie Angier (print book)
Subtitled A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, this book presents an overview of one or more of the major basic concepts in several fields of science. There are chapters on math, statistics, physics, chemistry, biology (evol ... 423 - English Dictionaries: The Professor and the Madman
500 - Natural Sciences and Mathematics: The Canon
510: Mathematics: Innumeracy
520 - Astronomy and allied sciences: Cosmos
523 - Specific celestial bodies and phenomena: The Planets
526 - Mathematical geography: Longitude
5 ... ... Dog: A Modern History of the Fart. A funny, funny book (ok, it's kind of juvenile, but funny). Also working my way through The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science and Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. Just light fall reading...
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