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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
Heather Pringle
Hyperion, 2002
Enchanting
+ Are You My Mummy?
+ Good but not great
+ Good introduction to the topic
+ Good introductory book
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Touchstone, 1998
Wonderful book!
+ Extremely Helpful
+ Be thankful after reading this book
+ A must read!
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The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Simon Pulse, 2004
Amazing book for even the most conservative readers
+ A nice break from heavy
+ bizarre but compelling
+ Timeless
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy Shilts
Stonewall Inn Editions, 2000
And the Band Played On
+ Amazing!
+ A Classic
+ How the fight against AIDS was initially lost....
+ Review of And The Band Played On
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
This Should Be Required Reading HS Level
+ Good, but long
+ Inspiring
+ More riveting than The Hot Zone
+ Fascinating and frightening
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The Cobra Event
Richard Preston
Ballantine Books, 1998
Outstanding! Almost Michael Crichton!
+ Edge of My Seat!
+ Refreshing and Educational
I loved this book for two reasons. The first being the riveting plot. This book dares you to put it down (and then try to sleep at night). The ride, the details, the pacing. This book is a cut above.
My second reason is a bit of thumbing my nose at the publishing industry. This book revels ...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Don't judge a book by its cover, or its title . . .
+ All the answers to questions you wanted to ask, but didn't want to say outloud...
+ 4.5 stars-Things to do when you're dead
+ Dead-on discussion on the usefulness of the dead
+ Fantastic
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The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
Avon, 2003
Not as Good as Microbe, But worth it.
+ Nice early work of Crichton
I read both this and Bill Clem's novel, Microbe, which has been compared to it, and I enjoyed Clem's book more. Not to say this wasn't good, but parts just fell flat for me, where in Clem's book, it's non-stop action and furious pace. Still I have to give it four stars for a great effort. if you ...
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Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
Ballantine Books, 1985
One of the great man in nature books
+ I now understand why this is considered a "Nature Classic".
+ Must reading
+ Fantastic Book
+ A classic...
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins
W. W. Norton, 1996
Even IF blind
+ The Blind Watchmaker
+ A Good Introduction To and Defense of Evolution
+ What a profound confidence in "Materialism" the author has!
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Daniel Quinn
Bantam, 1995
Ishmael: An Adventure Of The Mind And Spirit
+ This should be required reading.
+ "To the Point"
+ Great book!
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
Marc Reisner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993
Ahead of its time
+ Outstanding
+ Highly Recommended
This was a return engagement to "Cadillac Desert", as I had read the original in the 1980s, amazed at the time, considering it a premier example of thorough history and analysis in a subject about which few people knew much at all. What could have been a "dry" subject was actually quite gripping ...
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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
John M. Barry
Penguin Books, 2005
A Hot Read
+ Great history of medicine and the early 20th Century
+ The Great Influenza
+ informative but "wordy"
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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
Gretel Ehrlich
Vintage, 2005
this is a wonderful book
+ very prompt service!
+ another great Ehrich book
This is a tightly wrought and beautiful work or life and art, poetical, arresting, trasportive. As a westerner, and lover of cold it really spoke to me. The brittle cold of the author's loneliness seduces your own heart to face itself. It is a beautiful book, but not an easy one. While the book ...
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Vintage)
Edward Tenner
Vintage, 1997
Why did Air France Flight 358 crash ?
+ Deserves to be better known
+ Interesting
+ Good Coverage of Difficult Subjects
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