by Retired Reviewer | Jul 11, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
A “great problem,” says Ian Stewart, is great not because we find the answer but because our efforts to solve it create new ideas and new mathematics along the way. In Visions of Infinity Stewart traces the attempts to solve some of the most challenging mathematical...
by Site Owner | Aug 11, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Lots of Destruction…Needs More Science By Brian Clegg St. Martin’s Press, $15.99, 294 pages Armageddon Science is a broad-brush survey of the ways that humankind can annihilate itself or be annihilated. Potential causes range from the CERN Large Hadron...
by Site Owner | Jul 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater, Music
Elie is Bach in Prose By Paul Elie Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.00, 512 pages Paul Elie’s Reinventing Bach weaves together scenes from Bach’s life, stories of 20th Century landmark Bach recordings (Schweitzer and Casals in the 1930s; Stokowski’s Toccata and Fugue...
by Site Owner | May 27, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History
Informative but Lacking Central Focus By Victor S. Navasky Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95, 256 pages After discussing how a simple cartoon can deliver its message with clarity, immediacy and power, Navasky examines the work of more than two dozen political...
