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The Dinosaur Expert by Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas

The Dinosaur Expert by Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas

by L Ruby Hannigan | Dec 14, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Science & Technology

Kimmy is so excited to go on a field trip with her class to the natural history museum for dinosaurs. She can’t wait to explain to her classmates all the things that she loves to learn about such as fossils and feathers and shells and stones. She has a grand...
Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery by Daniel C. Taylor

Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery by Daniel C. Taylor

by Don Messerschmidt | Nov 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology

In the mid-1950s, when Daniel Taylor was a schoolboy growing up in the Himalayas of North India, he was assigned to write a paper on any subject of his choice. “At first,” he says, “I thought I’d do tigers―tigers were the ultimate quarry for Taylor boys―but I decided...
Astronomy & Natural History Connections: From Darwin to Einstein by Barry Boyce

Astronomy & Natural History Connections: From Darwin to Einstein by Barry Boyce

by Retired Reviewer | Oct 23, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology, Sponsored

If you’ve ever wanted to take a crash course in the sciences, then Astronomy & Natural History Connections: From Darwin to Einstein may just be the book for you. Barry Boyce’s book makes a bold attempt to teach readers about the wonders found around us here on...
Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Toby Walsh

Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Toby Walsh

by Howard Leighton | Oct 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology

Thankfully the author of this book has chosen to write about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a manner that is understandable to those of us without a significant background in physics, mathematics, or computer science. Additionally he has structured his book in three...
How to Fix the Future by Andrew Keen

How to Fix the Future by Andrew Keen

by Norman West | Aug 22, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Science & Technology

How to Fix the Future is an interesting book and worthwhile, though somewhat limited in scope. The focus is on the digital world and how it impacts our humanity: Brave new world a’ La Aldous Huxley or a new world for the brave (and educated). The challenges to our...
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing To Us by Will Storr

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing To Us by Will Storr

by Sarah Hutchins | Apr 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology, Social Science

It would be easy to presume that Will Storr’s book is as cutesy as its title, Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us, but that would be a mistake. Storr, a renowned long-form journalist, takes the reader on a journey from Ancient Greece to...
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