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Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: Lucifer's Hammer
(7/17/2008) Very cool. Yes, I really am a nerd. Help me. (****)
John Stossel: Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
(7/10/2008) (****)
Arthur Koestler: The God That Failed
(7/9/2008) My copy was a Bantam publication from 1952. It smells like it, too. The "god" in question was Communism; the authors were six famous ex-Communists who realized by the late-1940s that their "god" was a fake. (****)
John A. Nagl: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
(6/27/2008) Highly-recommended. (*****)
Henrik Svensmark: The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
(5/24/2008) We live in a universe and a galaxy full of radiation, some of it ionizing. Ionizing secondary cosmic radiation creates cloud condensation nuclei (e.g., ultra-fine droplets of sulphuric acid), seeding low clouds which cool the planet. On the other hand, strong solar activity leads to more intense solar wind which chases away the radiation, hence a warmer planet. The evidence is strong and broad, but awaits the ultimate confirmation from an upcoming experiment at CERN. (*****)
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man
(2/4/2008) (****)
Joseph J. Ellis: American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
(1/5/2008) I am much less enamored with Ellis after reading this book than I was after watching him speak on C-SPAN. Ellis brings some prejudices to his work, he can be startling lazy (e.g., in interpreting a Constitutional provision when the obvious meaning doesn't suit his preferences), and he certainly needs a strong editor to keep him from "reaching a crescendo" and other such jaw-grinding solecisms. But Ellis's account of the causes and consequences of the Louisiana Purchase was, alone, worth the price and the time. When he is "on," he is a genuine delight to read. Four out of five stars, or seven out of ten. (****)
Paxton Quigley: Armed and Female: Twelve Million American Women Own Guns, Should You?
(12/31/2007) No, I'm not female. But some people I care about are. The book is dated and I do take issue with a couple points, but it is very good. Four out of five stars. (****)
Murray Gell-Mann: The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
(12/31/2007) Gell-Mann won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969, for identifying (and naming) the Quark. I wish he'd stick to his strong points, but there are a lot of interesting gems here even when he doesn't. And he does get into some serious hard science, especially in the middle section. (One might suspect, from the title, that he's scaled-up Schrödinger's famous thought-experiment, but Gell-Mann would be the first to say that enough paper has already been wasted abusing that poor cat. And Schrödinger, for that matter.) Four of five stars for the insights into quantum physics. Otherwise, nevermind. (****)
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
(12/24/2007) Much to learn, here, but modern warfare has advanced beyond concerns about leather-clad chariots and watching to see if the horses are upset (a clue that the enemy is about). It's hard to see a modern analogue of either. (****)
Bullpen
R. Barker Bausell: Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Robert Nozick: Anarchy State and Utopia
Demoted because I'm a bum.
F. A. Hayek: The Road to Serfdom
Can you believe I've never read this book all the way through? What a doof!
Stephen Jay Gould: The Mismeasure of Man
A 350-page strawman. If only it had a brain. (I moved this back to the Bullpen because I became too bored by the strawmen to continue.)- Isabel Paterson: The God of the Machine
I read this book ten years ago (or so), but not well. Back on the short list. (B&N shows the book cover, but Amazon and TypePad can't find it. Strange.)
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