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Title: Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat: An A-To-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up With the New Thinking by I. N. Marshall, Danah Zohar, F. David Peat, Ian Marshall ISBN: 0-688-16107-3 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What determines your reality?
Comment: Reading this book has reawakened an interest in me to learning about math and physics. Though the book does not delve into the mathematics of the topics discussed, it provides a clear, well-sculpted image of each, meant for the lay-reader. It is particularly exciting to me because the ideas explained in "Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat?" are revolutionizing the way that humans view their world, their perspective in it, and, as is necessary to address at such a philosophical level, our possible purpose for being in it. The resulting conclusions from comtemporary physics are profound and inspiring, presented in this book, fittingly, in a non-linear, or 'quantum', fashion, so that the reader is brought to an understanding of the ideas presented by the greatest scientific minds of our century with an open mind leaping at the possibilities and thought-provoking implications of it all. This book makes a great introductory gate-way to its subject and a very convenient reference work (for the second read that is virtually necessary and equally profound). I am eager to explore other works by the authors.
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.)
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.
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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, Ian Marshall, I. N. Marshall ISBN: 1582341311 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pub. Date: 01 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 ISBN: 0688142303 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 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/Langua Pub. Date: 28 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.45 |
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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 Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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