books about: scientific

books about: scientific

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Scientific

The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, ...

Patrick Buckley, Lily Binns

Collins Living, 2008

Gut Innovation beats the WHISK out of Gut Renovation
What great fun!! It's the baking soda volcano and the soda bottle tornado -- TIMES 100!!!! This book is rife with clever ideas that will leave you hankering for more time in the kitchen! Between sending my husband out for supplies and bringing my creations over to ...

Practical Research: Planning and Design (8th Edition)

Paul D. Leedy, Jeanne E. Ormrod

Prentice Hall, 2004

Great book!
Great book...full of information which is easily organized and easy to read if you're interested in this good information.

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

A Book for Every Thinking Person's "Must Read" List
One will readily expect the perceptions and reviews of Richard Dawkins' THE GOD DELUSION to fall along what might euphemistically be called "party lines." Blue Staters, rationalists, and the college educated (especially in mathematics, engineering, the sciences, and ...

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, ...

Michio Kaku

Doubleday, 2008

Degrees of Scientific Impossibility
Will something that is impossible now eventually become possible? In order to answer this question, the author has divided various potentially outrageous ideas into three levels of impossibility, based on current and expected future technological capabilities and the ...

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

University Of Chicago Press, 1996

Not Just for Those Interested in Science
Essential reading in understanding why the Enlightenment ideal of rationality is dead or at least doesn't count in ways that matter. In particular, Kuhn calls into question the idea of science as a rational enterprise, and since science is epistemologically ...

Measuring the Immeasurable: The Scientific Case for Spirituality

Sounds True, 2008

Can your thoughts heal another person, even from across the globe? Can meditation create "superhuman" levels of perception? Do prayer and intention actually affect reality? A few decades ago, scientists would have dismissed such ideas as superstition. Today, a growing body of persuasive research has turned many scientific thinkers into believers ...

Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. ...

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Aladdin, 2007

And from out of left field comes...
Children's librarians must find books to add to their collections from a wide variety of different sources. They read professional serials like Horn Book and School Library Journal. They receive Advanced Readers Copies and read clever blogs that always discuss new ...

Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ...

Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

Touchstone, 1995

Driven to Distraction
Cd was very informative. Much easier to put in cd and listen than reading for hours. It covers all basic points of ADD. The fast overview should answer most question that a layman would have.

The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

David Berlinski

Crown Forum, 2008

Brilliant counterblast to modern scientism
David Berlinski is a distinguished author, an academic mathematician and philosopher, who was also a post-doctoral fellow in molecular biology at Columbia University. A secular Jew, he is also a fellow of the Discovery Institute [which for some biased individuals might ...

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Penguin Press HC, The, 2007

It works, and let me add a bit....
I bought this book not to become happy but because it was written by my colleague Sonja Lyubomirsky; I knew her from work, found her research interesting, and wanted to find out more. The book actually did make me happier. I knew most of the material from the ...

The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Lee Strobel

Zondervan, 2005

Refreshing veiw
It was nice to see a different view point of how creation could have occurred. This book does not try to convince you that Buddha, Yahweh, or Krishna is the force behind our existence. however they have a good argument that simple chance is not viable with our current ...

Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Bill Watterson

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1991

Hysterical and bittersweet
When you get right down to it, is there anything better than Calvin & Hobbes? In this compilation or any of the others, you get lessons in quantum physics, nostalgic looks at the agony of grade school, observations in human nature, and a bit of the "thing under the ...

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture (DIY Science)

Robert Thompson

Make Books, 2008

More than funny smells, an invaluable must have book.
Many other reviewers have made comments about the demise of home chemistry sets and their youthful experiences. I echo many of the same thoughts. Without going in to the details suffice to say that I loved my chemistry set and still relish those youthful memories. I ...

Scientific Keys Volume I: The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga

Ray Long

Bandha Yoga, 2006

The Secret to an A + in Anatomy !
I highly recommend a visit to www.bandhayoga.com for a preview of the 650 amazing full color illustrations and sample chapters in this book. Author Ray Long MD, FRCSC, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon who has studied yoga for over twenty years, training ...

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Michael Brooks

Doubleday, 2008

A baker's dozen of baffling scientific mysteries
XXXXX "I have investigated just thirteen of today's scientific anomalies [or mysteries]. Some are more anomalous than others but all cry out for explanations and further study. Some have yet to be taken seriously; others are perhaps taken too ...