One is that if somebody's reviewing, if a critic's reviewing an adult book, a good popular biography or work of science I'd like them to be able to say this is so interesting and so well written that children would enjoy this book as well.
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For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.
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In the debut issue of a new open access online journal, Euresis, Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard, offers a fascinating essay on Johannes Kepler and his book Astronomia Nova.
As I explain in a new book on the emerging science of workplace excellence, to perform at our best, we require distraction-free periods in which we can leverage our full, uninterrupted attention.
The real cutting edge in climate science was publicly exposed recently in a book by one of the long time leaders of the German environmental movement, Fritz Vahrenholt, in his new book, The Cold Sun.
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Uniquely qualified on cutting-edge issues of science and technology, Mr Gore chose to write a courageous book on the dangers of catastrophic climate change and other threats to the habitability of our planet.
In the book, Pink offers a fresh look at the art and science of sales using a mix of social science, survey research and stories.
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Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution is an engrossing book and I think a necessary addition to the library of any history of science buff.
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Unfortunately, what Steven Rose has learned, as a neurobiologist, about sorting order from chaos, does not translate into his new book of popular science.
Legendary science fiction author David Gerrold contemplates the future of the e-book as a medium unto itself, separate from the books that precede it.
Passages of autobiography and anecdote enliven the hard science, but the book's real drama is at a cellular level.
Publisher Tim Sanders of Net Minds persuaded him to write a book linked to Jobs, even though Bushnell had already finished writing a science fiction novel about a video game hatched through nanotechnology in 2071.
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