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Title: Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat?: All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up With the New Thinking by I. N. Marshall, Danah Zohar, F. David Peat, I. Howard Marshall ISBN: 0-688-11865-8 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No uncertainly here--This book is great
Comment: This is a great science book for the non-scientific type. It makes very obtuse theories and concepts crystal clear for the lay reader, and brings science to the masses *without dumbing it down.* It reminds me a lot of Charles Osgood's marvelous series "A Science Odyssey" that aired on PBS a few years back. (See my separate review on that for even more raves about science for the layperson without dumbing it down.)
Entries are brief, and sometimes I wish there were more detail. As another reviewer points out, references for further reading would be nice as well. However, if you're puzzled but intrigued by such topics as "string theory," "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle" and "Chaos Theory," and all you know about this stuff comes from Star Trek-type shows, this is a great book for you. It also demonstrates, as the late Carl Sagan used to say, that science is far stranger, far more mysterious and far more subtle than science fiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: An essential read for those trying to grasp the New Sciences
Comment: Got this book on a whim. Turned out to be an outstanding book that for those steeped in the sciences, will find it nice to read from cover to cover. For others, it is an invaluable refernce guide.
The authors have done a great job of writing the introductory pieces that fit beautifully. Initially, I put the book down after these essays, content in understanding thier thoughts on various aspects of the sciences. Later, I delved into the various terms that they have elaborated upon and found them immensely useful.
Coming from the biomedical side, I'd have preferred a bit more information on biotechnology and medicine than what it covers, (hence the 4 stars).
I highly recommend it to anyone with more than a mild curiosity in what is going on in the current sciences.
Rating: 5
Summary: Could not put it down!
Comment: I recieved this book on a Tuesday. I couldn't stop picking it up until Friday. Even now I still have it out on my desk. This isn't the type of book that you'll want to read from front to back at one sitting. Its a good reference book and an outstanding introductory book to not only the new style of physics, but physics in general.
The meat of the book does exactly what it says, it introduces the reader to the most advanced scientific principles of today. However, what I became even more interested in, (although I was plenty interested in the new ideas) was the epistimological difference between newtonian physics and quantum physics. In sparked in me an interest into the philosophy of science.
The length of the definitions of the ideas range from a half a page to three and a half pages. There is somewhere around 200 different "new ideas" of science that it introduces. All the definitions are written well with exceptional clarity, (which I was glad to see because I would of been lost otherwise.)
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Title: The Quantum Self by Danah Zohar ISBN: 0688107362 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 24 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sq: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence by Danah Zohar, I. N. Marshall ISBN: 1582341311 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Quantum Society: Mind, Physics, and a New Social Vision by Danah Zohar, Ian Marshall, Dana Zohar ISBN: 0688142303 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter by Donald Palmer ISBN: 076740596X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 28 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.05 |
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Title: Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations by Danah Zohar ISBN: 1576750221 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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