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- All Hell Let Loose (8)
- The World at War 1939-1945
- By Max Hastings
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- The Electric Life of Michael Faraday (1)
- By Alan W. Hirshfeld
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Finished in Sep 2010
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- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (89)
- By Richard P. Feynman
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Finished in Aug 2010
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
1 person find this helpful
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Not as good as the other collected works. A lot of material is rehashed. Would recommend "What do you care what other people think" over this collection.
- — Oct 3, 2010 | Add your feedback
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- American Prometheus (26)
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird
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Finished on Jun 1, 2010
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Well written - gripping and hard to put down. I particularly enjoyed the pre-Los Alamos section about his early adulthood.
- — Jun 2, 2010 | Add your feedback
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- In the Beginning Was the Worm (2)
- Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite
- By Andrew Brown
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Finished on Dec 19, 2009
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- When You Are Engulfed in Flames (165)
- By David Sedaris
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Finished on Oct 8, 2009
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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Fewer laugh out loud moments that his previous books
- — Oct 14, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Gang Leader for a Day (37)
- A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
- By Sudhir Venkatesh
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Finished on Sep 25, 2009
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- The New New Thing (45)
- A Silicon Valley Story
- By Michael Lewis
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Finished on Jun 23, 2009
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- Thurgood Marshall (2)
- American Revolutionary
- By Juan Williams
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Finished on Mar 16, 2009
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1 person find this helpful
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Well written and engaging, I had only a vague knowledge of Thurgood Marshall and the history of the NAACP before and am very glad that I read this book. Considering his achievements and their enormous impact on equality on the US, I'm a little shocked by his nonexistent presence in popular culture. ... (continue)
- — Mar 17, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- In a Time of War (2)
- By Bill Murphy
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Finished on Mar 14, 2009
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1 person find this helpful
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A very interesting read. Extremely emotional. Drove home the fact that the soldiers in the military have a very, very hard life (and death) and had many of the same doubts and disagreements as the rest of us with the policy of their bosses who had a lot to gain (in any number of ways) from the invas ... (continue)
- — Mar 17, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (282)
- By Michael Chabon
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Finished on Feb 18, 2009
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- The God Delusion (834)
- By Richard Dawkins
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Finished on Oct 16, 2008
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3 people find this helpful
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Well written and very highly recommended. However, I don't think that the Boeing argument is even necessary and that Dawkins plays it up a bit much. The pure absurdity of theology, the absolute lack of evidence, and the fact that when confronted by a similarly insane belief in another culture we wou ... (continue)
- — Oct 20, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- Operational Amplifiers (1)
- By Steve Winder, G. B. Clayton
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Finished in Jun 2008
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Lots of practical information, deals with noise sources and different transistor types in good detail.
- — Aug 5, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- Thin Film Analysis by X-Ray Scattering. Techniques for Structural Characterization (1)
- By Mario Birkholz
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Finished in Jun 2008
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Thin Film Analysis by X-Ray Scattering. Techniques for Structural Characterization
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This was a good introduction to x-ray diffraction. I didn't read the whole thing because I mainly was interested in rocking curve measurements on polycrystalline thin films, which I wish the book had gone into a little bit more depth on, but overall worth perusing if you don't know much about XRD an ... (continue)
- — Aug 5, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- Atlas Shrugged (446)
- By Ayn Rand
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Finished in Jun 2008
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2 people find this helpful
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Although the characters can feel like caricatures at times, this book changed the way that I think in many respects and has been a great motivator in my research, particularly when times are tough. One of my favorite books and would be included on any trip to a desert island.
- — Mar 17, 2009 | Add your feedback
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Ericdbw 
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
Top notch. Very well written and engrossing. Knew very little about Faraday's life before starting the book (just happened to see it while looking for a biography of Dirac at the library) and I'd highly recommend reading this book.
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