This book is astonishing, really. A non-physicist decided to teach himself relativity theory, using some text books and the full range of publicly available online resources. That's no mean feat. But then he did something really brave - arguably crazy as all truly brave acts are - and wrote a book f...
This book is astonishing, really. A non-physicist decided to teach himself relativity theory, using some text books and the full range of publicly available online resources. That's no mean feat. But then he did something really brave - arguably crazy as all truly brave acts are - and wrote a book f...
Marmalade Jam and Chocolate Eclairs by Peter CollierIllustrated colorful children's book about a strange visitor at the door one day.They are short and furry and carry a library card and that their friend said the one who answered the door would help them.Great rhymes along the way.The furry creatur...
This is one of my favorite historical biographies. I don't know how accurate it is, and I read it a long time ago, but it is sweeping in it's romantic portrayal of these historic figures. I recommend it as much as I can for a book in that category.
Peter Collier and David Horowitz were comrades of the New Left--former radicals who over time moved to the right. This was written during the time they had absorbed some of the lessons of the sixties, but hadn't become active in trying to undo the damage. That is to say, I think they were by this ti...
One needn't agree with Chomsky in order to find that this volume relies primarily on strawpersons, red herrings, argumentum ad hominem, and other irrationalisms. In addition to being scurrilous and manifestly erroneous, for instance, the suggestion that Chomsky is anti-semitic and supportive of any...
According to his mother, Henry Ford was a "born mechanic." His father, brothers, and sisters were less charitable, for Henry would have every clock or toy with a wind-up mechanism in pieces, which he would then attempt to reassemble. He was an inveterate experimenter. Once, dissatisfied with his fat...
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