Posted Sun, 01/01/2012 - 5:16pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2011
Freeman Dyson is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the world-renowned Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of several books and the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Mon, 12/19/2011 - 12:40pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2011
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Michael Gazzaniga is director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at UC Santa Barbara, president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, founding director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Project and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. Read more
Posted Sat, 11/19/2011 - 12:08pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
November 2011
Currently the Herman Feshbach Professor at MIT, Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a 21-year old graduate student. His 1989 book Longing for the Harmonies (coauthored with his wife) was a NYT Notable Book of the Year. This book was a gift. Read more
Posted Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:44am by fred
Date Fred Read:
September 2011
James Hollis, graduate of the Jung Institute of Zurich, teaches at the Jung Institute of Houston and is a distinguished faculty member of the Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. He is author of more than a dozen books. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Wed, 08/10/2011 - 6:00pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2011
Michael Shermer, author of 11 books, is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine, and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Fri, 07/08/2011 - 11:38am by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2011
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Anton Zeilinger is a professor of physics at the University of Vienna, where he heads the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:19pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2011
Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and its director of the Greater Good Science Center – a research center committed to scientific understanding of positive emotions – and co-editor of Greater Good magazine. The book was loaned to me by a very close friend whose selections of books to review are top-notch. Read more
Posted Wed, 06/08/2011 - 4:59pm by fred
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Paul Davies was Director of the Beyond Center at Arizona State University and had written 27 books by 1995. He won the 1995 Templeton Prize for his work on the deeper meaning of science. His first book on the subject of time in 1974 was written for professional physicists. This book was written for the wider public. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Wed, 06/08/2011 - 4:44pm by fred
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Paul Davies was Director of the Beyond Center at Arizona State University and had written 27 books by 1995. He won the 1995 Templeton Prize for his work on the deeper meaning of science. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) John Gribbin, trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge, is a full-time science writer who had written seven books by 1995. Read more
Posted Fri, 03/18/2011 - 3:55pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2011
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
David Park is Webster Atwell-Class of 1921 Professor of Physics Emeritus at Williams College. He wrote several previous books, including The Fire within the Eye, a NYT Notable Book of the Year in 1997 and The How and the Why. This book was a gift. Read more
