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A Literary Saloon and Site of Review
Index of Science
and Technology Books
under review
at
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This index includes all books under review dealing with aspects of science, mathematics, and technology, as well as relevant philosophical works.
Please also refer to our Philosophy and Mathematics indices.
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Science and Technology Books under Review
- ANANTHASWAMY, Anil: Through Two Doors at Once (B) -- The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality
- BAGGOTT, Jim: Beyond Measure (--)
- BELL, John S.: See also: Quantum Reflections (ed. J. Ellis and D. Amati) (--)
- BELLER, Mara: Quantum Dialogue (A-)
- BENNETT, Deborah J.: Randomness (B)
- BENTLEY, Peter J.: Digitized (B) - The Science of Computers and How It Shapes Our World
- BERNSTEIN, Jeremy: Quantum Leaps (B)
- BHATTACHARYA, Ananyo: The Man from the Future (B+) - The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- BLACKMORE, Susan: The Meme Machine (B+)
- BOK, Sissela: Exploring Happiness (B) - From Aristotle to Brain Science
- BOYER, Pascal: Religion Explained (B)
- BOYLE, James: Shamans, Software, and Spleens (A-)
- BROWN, James Robert: Who Rules in Science ? (B)
- CARLSON, Robert H.: Biology is Technology (B+) - The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life
- CASTI, John L.:
- CHRISTIANSON, John Robert: On Tycho's Island (B)
- CLOSE, Frank:
Neutrino
(B)
- CUSHING, James T.: Philosophical Concepts in Physics (B+)
- DARWIN, Charles: The Origin of Species (A-)
- DAWKINS, Richard:
- DEKKERS, Midas: The Way of all Flesh (B+)
- DENNETT, Daniel C.: Breaking the Spell (B+) - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- DEVLIN, Keith: Mathematics: The New Golden Age (B)
- DOUEIHI, Milad: Digital Cultures (B)
- DRY, Sarah: The Newton Papers (B)
- DUNBAR, Robin: How Many Friends does One Person Need ? (B) - Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
- DÜRRENMATT, Friedrich: The Physicists (A-)
- DYSON, Freeman:
- EDELMAN, Gerald M.: A Universe of Consciousness (with G. Tononi) (B)
- FARA, Patricia:
- FEINGOLD, Mordechai: The Newtonian Moment (B+)
- FEYERABEND, Paul:
- FEYNMAN Richard P.:
- FIRESTEIN, Stuart: Ignorance (B) -- How it Drives Science
- [FODOR, Jerry: What Darwin Got Wrong (with Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini)]
- FUKUYAMA, Francis: Our Posthuman Future (B)
- FULLER, Steve: Kuhn vs. Popper (B+)
- GILDER, Louisa: The Age of Entanglement (B+) -- When Quantum Physics was Reborn
- GINGERICH, owen: The Book Nobody Read (B+) -- Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
- GLEICK, James:
- GOPNIK, Alison: The Philosophical Baby (B) -- What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
- GUZMAN, Andrew T.: Overheated (B) -- The Human Cost of Climate Change
- HACKING, Ian: The Social Construction of What ? (B)
- HEILBRON, J.L.: The Sun in the Church (B)
- HOLUB, Miroslav: Shedding Life (A)
- JAMIESON, Dale: Reason in a Dark Time (B) -- Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed – and What It Means for Our Future
- JARDINE, Lisa: The Curious Life of Robert Hooke (B+)
- JONES, Steve:
- KEATS, Jonathon: Virtual Words (B) -- Language on the Edge of Science and Technology
- KRITSKY, Gene: The Tears of Re (B) -- Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
- LAKATOS, Imre:
- LEM, Stanislaw: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Ed.: Peter Swirski) (B-)
- LESSIG, Lawrence: Code - and other Laws of Cyberspace (A-)
- LEWONTIN, Richard:
- LINDLEY, David: Degrees Kelvin (B)
- LINGAM, Manasvi: Life in the Cosmos (-) (with Avi Loeb)
- LLOYD, Elisabeth A.: The Case of the Female Orgasm (B) - Bias in the Science of Evolution
- LLOYD, G.E.R.: The Ambitions of Curiosity (B+)
- LOEB, Avi: Life in the Cosmos (-) (with Manasvi Lingam)
- LOPEZ jr., Donald S.: The Scientific Buddha (B) - His Short and Happy Life
- MAGUEIJO, João: Faster Than the Speed of Light (B)
- MATSON, Wallace: Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs (A-) - Science, Philosophy, and their Histories
- McCLOSKEY, Deirdre: The Secret Sins of Economics (B)
- McMENAMIN, Mark A.S.: The Garden of Ediacara (B)
- MILO, Daniel S.: Good Enough (B) - The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- MITCHELL, W.J.T.: The Last Dinosaur Book (C+)
- MONTGOMERY, Scott L.:
- MOSKVITCH, Katia: Neutron Stars (B) - The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos
- MURRAY, Janet H.: Hamlet on the Holodeck (B-)
- MUSSER, George: Spooky Action at a Distance (B+) - The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time -- and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
- NABOKOV, Vladimir: Nabokov's Butterflies (B+)
- NARAYANAMURTI, Venkatesh: The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions (B+), with Jeffrey Y. Tsao -- Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research
- NESTLE, Marion: Safe Food (B+)
- NINIO, Jacques: The Science of Illusions (B)
- OGAS, Ogi: A Billion Wicked Thoughts (B) (with Sai Gaddam) - What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
- ORRELL, David: Truth or Beauty (B+) - Science and the Quest for Order
- PÄS, Heinrich: The Perfect Wave (B) - With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time
- PAULOS, John Allen: Innumeracy (B-)
- PENNOCK, Robert T.:
- PHILLIPS, Adam: Darwin's Worms (B)
- PINTO-CORREIA, Clara: Return of the Crazy Bird (B-)
- POSNER, Richard: Catastrophe (B-) - Risk And Response
- ROSENHOUSE, Jason: Among the Creationists (B) - Dispatches From the Anti-Evolutionist Frontline
- ROSZAK, Theodore: The Gendered Atom (C-)
- RUSE, Michael:
- SCHWARTZ, Maxime: How the Cows Turned Mad (B)
- SMITH, John Maynard: Shaping Life (B)
- SOKAL, Alan:
- STANDAGE, Tom: The Mechanical Turk (also: The Turk) (B+)
- STEPHAN, Paula: How Economics Shapes Science (B)
- STIGLER, Stephen M.: Statistics on the Table (B)
- TORRETTI, Roberto: The Philosophy of Physics (B)
- TUDGE, Colin: Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers (B+)
- UGLOW, Jenny: The Lunar Men (B+)
- VEDRAL, Vlatko: Decoding Reality (B) -- The universe as quantum information
- WANG Hao: Reflections on Kurt Gödel (B)
- WANJEK, Christopher: Spacefarers (B) -- How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
- WARWICK, Andrew: Masters of Theory (A-) -- Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics
- WEINERSMITH, Kelly: A City on Mars (B) (with Zach Weinersmith) -- Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through ?
- WINCHESTER, Simon:
- Krakatoa (A-)
- The Man Who Loved China (UK title: Bomb, Book and Compass) (B) -- The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, Joseph Needham
- WINSTON, Mark L.: Bee Time (B) -- Lessons from the Hive
- WOOD, Gaby: Living Dolls (also: Edison's Eve) (B-)
- XIE, Yu: Is American Science in Decline ? (-) (with Alexandra A. Killewald)
- YOURGRAU, Palle: A World Without Time (B+) -- The Forgotten Legacy Of Gödel And Einstein
- ZEILINGER, Anton: Dance of the Photons (B) -- From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
- ZEKI, Semir: Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain (B+)
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