Will they please stop publishing great books!

LivermoresGhost · Jan 19, 2006

The book A Guide To Rational Living by Albert Ellis changed my life.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879800429

nitro · Feb 6, 2006

This is a really interesting read:

Into the Cool : Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02...103-7657919-3927812?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

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nitro · Feb 6, 2006

I thought this was a well done biography:

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries) (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/03...103-7657919-3927812?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

[out in softcover now]

nitro

Ricter · Feb 6, 2006

Thanks to you I am now in a fruitless search for Ehrenreich's Fear of Falling. : )

nitro · Feb 6, 2006

Quote from Ricter:

Thanks to you I am now in a fruitless search for Ehrenreich's Fear of Falling. : )

nitro · Mar 29, 2006

Read a 1/4 of this book last night. Pretty good read so far:

Programming the Universe : A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/14...f=pd_bbs_1/104-8523271-6897549?_encoding=UTF8

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nitro · Apr 15, 2006

Jus started reading this one:

Chances Are . . . : Adventures in Probability (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/06...103-8063610-5744612?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

I really like it.

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nitro · Apr 15, 2006

A fun and fast read. Half way done:

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003441X/ref=pd_bxgy_img_b/103-8063610-5744612?_encoding=UTF8

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nitro · Apr 15, 2006

On Intelligence (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/08...103-8063610-5744612?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

1/2 way done with it and so far I am enjoying it. Hard to say how right it is since I know so little about the subject. But much of it feels right.

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nitro · Apr 15, 2006

This is one of the best books I have ever read for the "layman". It is tough going if you don't have the math background, but boy the rewards are huge if you get through it an understand it:

The Story of Spin (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02...103-8063610-5744612?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

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