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The Numerati
Stephen Baker
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
By the Numbers
Reading Baker's well-written and insightful book dispels any notion that numeracy is not necessary to fathom the 21st century.
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Pantheon, 2008
Marvelous! Marvelous! Marvelous!
As a teacher of high school mathematics and statistics, I have read many such books on the subject at hand. Few of them are as readable and enjoyable as The Drunkard's Walk.
What Mlodinow's brings to the table is a great sense of humor and a writing style that is ...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
North Point Press, 2002
Visionaries!
McDonough & Baumgarten have re-envisioned how companies might redesign their manufacturing processes to actually leave the environment better than they found it. And create better products in the end, products that people will want to buy because they are ...
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The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review
Graduate Management Admission, 2005
Excellent Preparation Book for the GMAT
It has been seven years since I have been out of college. My math skills are very rusty. The Quanative Review is the best book to get because it is written by the GMAT Staff. Each question comes with an explanation of how the problem is solved. The book is broken down ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2006
Quick, Interesting Read -- more like Sociology than Economics
Very interesting. I expected to hunker down and "learn something" with this book, but found that I read through it as fast as a mindless fiction novel. Topics and thoughts put forth by the author are controversial for sure. His theory about abortion and crime rates is ...
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Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
Danica McKellar
Plume, 2008
Great reference--serious home work help
I bought this book when my daughter faced some serious lags in starting the school year--3 days into a new school and 6th grade, and she was out from an appendectomy. I knew we'd have to do some serious instruction at home to keep her up to speed. Because our math text ...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Vintage, 2004
Curiously Interesting
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was an exciting and fun to read novel. Mark Haddon makes the story of a fifteen year old Christopher Boone with Asperger's (a form of autism) enjoyable to audiences young and old. Christopher must use deductive ...
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Anatomy Coloring Book, The (3rd Edition)
Wynn Kapit, Lawrence M. Elson
Benjamin Cummings, 2001
Anatomy Coloring Book
I purchased both this and the Physiology Coloring Book and they are great! Not only does coloring in the images reinforce what I'm studying, but the text portion (explanations) are added bonuses. I highly recommend both.
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Anathem
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 2008
Anathem Blows Minds Literally As Well As Mentally.
Neal Stephenson's new book, "Anathem", shows he's once again left the bounds of traditional Spec-Fic behind. Just as with the Baroque Cycle, wherein the reader, initially disappointed at the absence of VR and nanobots, eventually recognises that an 'historical' novel ...
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Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss
Danica McKellar
Hudson Street Press, 2008
Danica Rocks!
This book explains math in a way that is easy for young girls (and boys) to get a more thorough understanding of Algebra. It builds off of the fundamentals learned in her first book. My daughter loves it and I do, too! Danica, you rock!!!
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton, 2005
History; It's What's for Dinner
Dr. Diamond's magnum opus for which he has won an Oscar. Or maybe it was the Pullet Surprise. Something like that.
Unrivaled, in the experience of this humble reviewer, in either clarity or insight, GGS, is one of the best books I have ever read. Diamond is a gifted ...
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The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK (Developer's Library)
Erica Sadun
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
Consider the Value
I have made my living from programming, which roughly equates into: I charge clients for my time. That said, I would imagine that we all place some sort of "value" on our time, and being from a (hopefully) empathic species, I place value on the time of others. It is ...
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The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Picador, 2008
Fascinating Look at Our Effect on the Planet
When I first picked up this book, I was concerned that it would simply be a lesson on how plants and animals would overtake our cities and houses once humans had disappeared from our planet. That is a major part of the book, but I never found it to be overdone. The ...
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
Possibly my favorite read of all time
Wow. When I finished this book, I did something I had never done before: I read the same book again. The second time through, I underlined things and scribbled thoughts on the inside covers and in the margins and wrote emails to friends about questions forming in my ...
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 2001
Masterpiece of graphic design proves timeless and universal
I returned to Tufte's first classic book of graphic design principles over 20 years after first discovering it. At the time, I was the corporate librarian for a major electric utility, and the explosion in the organization and creation of information by individuals ...
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