A wonderfully helpful little book on one of the most impenetrable topics in the world of science.
REVIEWS
Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
For more than a decade, Rebecca Skloot layered herself into the Lacks’ story. This is the culmination of her efforts to inject a human component into the longstanding scientific mystique surrounding HeLa.
Review: The Catcher in the Rye
It may have taken me longer than most to read this literary classic, but it was well worth the wait.
Review: Bad Astronomy
Plait’s book, his first, is an exercise in clear thinking fused with good science, necessities surely foreign to the moon landing deniers.
Review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pirsig’s period-specific text is full of cracker-barrel philosophy and devoid of both readability and sense.
Review: The God Delusion
In the 2006 The God Delusion, Dawkins assumes a two-pronged approach: his thesis is that a supernatural God almost certainly does not exist and that society would be better off without the religions that have congealed around these ideas.
Review: God Behaving Badly
The Old Testament God has a bad reputation. What are we to make of a book that depicts God as an ally to slavery, genocide, misogyny, and prodigious violence? I explore a theologian’s answer to these questions in the 2011 book God Behaving Badly.
Review: A Planet of Viruses
Carl Zimmer’s latest provides an intimate look at the viral underworld, responsible for the bulk of the world’s genetic diversity and that continues to play a pivotal role in the evolution of life and the planet as a whole.
Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel
According to Diamond, it merely was adventitious that Eurasians possessed the guns, germs, and steel to conquer foreign lands, for it was their indigenous proximity to an ecologically diverse landmass that best explains their success.
Review: Rage
With its penchant for monosyllabic game titles and quick-twitch gunplay, Id has now dropped Rage into the first person fracas.
Review: The Order of Things
Michel Foucault’s 1966 work on the history and meaning of Western thought is an intellectual tour de force that’s not for the faint of heart.
Review: Wordsmithy
Laconic, punchy, pitch perfect, and one hell of a joy to read, Wilson has manufactured the formula for what it takes to be a great writer and shipped it to us on a silver plate.
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