Physical Sciences
Digest Book Review Titles
(September 2003 to May 2005)
May 2005
From Blue Moons to Black Holes, Melanie
Melton Knocke, Prometheus Books, 2005
The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of
Familiar Things, Cathy Cobb, Monty L. Fetterolf,
2005, Prometheus Books
April 2005
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the
Earth, Marcia Bjornerud, 2005, Westview Press
Cosmos, Sylvia Arditi, Marc Lachièze-Rey,
2004, Firefly Books
March 2005
Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope,
Fred Watson, 2004, Da Capo Press
Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice,
David N. Thomas, 2004, Firefly Books
February 2005
Uncorked: The Science of Champagne, Gerard
Liger-Belair, 2004, Princeton University Press
Earth from Space, Andrew K. Johnston, 2004,
Firefly Books
January 2005
Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs,
Andrew Chaikin, 2004, Firefly Books
Secrets of the Cave Letters, Richard A
Freund, 2004, Humanity Books
December 2004
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe, Leon
M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill, 2004, Prometheus
Books
The Universe and Beyond, Terrance Dickinson,
2004, Firefly Books
November 2004
Weather: A Visual Guide,
Bruce Buckley, Edward J. Hopkins, and Richard Whitaker,
2004, Firefly Books
Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of
Ice Ages, Doug Macdougall, 2004, University
of California Press
October 2004
Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation,
Alan Gurney, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
Who Really Invented the Steamboat?,
Jack L. Shagena, 2004, Humanity Books
September 2004
The Harmonious Universe: The Beauty and Unity
of Scientific Understanding, Keith J. Laidler,
2004, Prometheus Books
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an
Urban Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
2004 Prometheus Books
May 2004
Approximating Perfection: A Mathematician’s
Journey into the World of Mechanics, Leonid
P. Lebedev, Michaek J. Cloud, 2004, Princeton
University Press
Great Feuds in Technology: Ten of the Liveliest
Disputes Ever, Hal Hellman, 2004, John Wiley & Sons
April 2004
Albert Einstein’s Vision: Remarkable
Discoveries that Shaped Modern Science, Barry
Parker, 2004, Prometheus Books
Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin
of the Andes, Simon Lamb, 2004, Princeton
University Press
March 2004
Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed
an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global
Climate Hazard, S. George Philander, 2004,
Princeton University Press
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies,
Science, and Love, Richard Dawkins, 2003,
Houghton Mifflin Company
February 2004
The Transits of Venus, William Sheehan,
John Westfall, 2004, Prometheus Books
Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard
Problems, John J. Watkins, 2004, Princeton
University Press
January 2004 Perfect Planet, Clever Species: How Unique
Are We?, William C. Burger, 2003, Prometheus
Books
Einstein's
Clocks, Poincaré's Maps:
Empires of Time, Peter Galison, 2003, W.W.
Norton & Company
December 2003
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science,
Peter Atkins, 2003, Oxford University Press
Quantum Legacy, The Discovery that Changed
Our Universe, Barry Parker, 2003, Prometheus
Books,
November 2003
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the
Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity, James
Repcheck, 2003, Perseus Publishing
Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of
Mathematical Physics, Andrew Warwick, 2003,
University of Chicago Press.
October 2003
Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human
Values, Thomas M. Georges, 2003, Westview
Press
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How
Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten
Humankind's Future in This Century—On Earth
and Beyond, Martin Rees, 2003, Basic Books
September 2003
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment,
Giuliano Pancaldi, 2003, Princeton University Press
The Big Splat: Or How Our Moon Came to Be,
Dana Mackenzie, 2003, John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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