Made to Stick : Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Chip; Heath, Dan Heath Random House of Canada, Limited, 2007             Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)115 reviews Laurence Bergreen Harper Perennial, 2004 A Spectacular Journey + Utterly readable, I was held in thrall.... + Discovering the world, kings fighting, men surviving, women chattel + fascinating history + very exciting - couldn't put it down             Self-Organization in Biological Systems: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)2 reviews Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, ... Princeton University Press, 2003 Real, practical studies of self-organization in biology + Great book, what happened to the website? Many books containing theory upon theory about self-organization in the biosphere have appeared in recent years. This book could be an important catalyst towards putting more of these theories to the test. While it has long been recognized that self-organization could be important in biological ...             Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics15 reviews Paul Ormerod Pantheon, 2006 Why the subject of economics is in disequilibrium. This book is the follow up to the excellent Butterfly Economics. As I write this review, a leading conservative commentator on a television show broadcast by the Fox News Channel, was stating that the US economy was doing very well. This statement seemed to me to be at odds with the reality as I ...             Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software82 reviews Steven Johnson Scribner, 2002 Nice soft intro to concepts of self-organisation + Emergence - The Study of Macro-behavior resulting from Micro-level Agents. For those with a technical interest in the matter, this is a nice soft intro to the topics with which concerned. It is written with a somewhat emotional style; probably not an ideal technical resource. For the readers not akin to the concepts at all, the book successfully conveys a nice (and ...             The Armada12 reviews Garrett Mattingly Mariner Books, 2005 A classic worthy of the title + A Classic of Narrative History - It Makes Elizabethan History Almost As Exciting As It Really Was + The Armada + The Armada + Better than a novel             Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind95 reviews V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee Harper Perennial, 1999 engaging and intrguing + An Exciting and Entertaining Foray into the Mind + Are there phantoms in our brain or is our self a phantom? + Good for those considering Cognitive Science as a major + And the point is....             Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry16 reviews Ian Stewart Basic Books, 2007 "Beauty, Truth & Mathematics via Transformation" + Nearly gets the balance of history and math right + You can't trisect an angle with a compass and straightedge + I liked it, but, you can trisect an angle             The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the ...5 reviews Rudy Rucker Basic Books, 2006 Anything but Muddled + A Technical Introduction with Soul to Spare + universal automaton + This book will change the world! + Open your mind for a great purpose             Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life18 reviews David Grinspoon Harper Perennial, 2004 Great Read + Real Exploration + lets find some E.T.'s!!! + For Everybody + Often clever, but too flip to be taken seriously             The Art of Loving (Perennial Classics)73 reviews Erich Fromm Harper Perennial, 2000 To Live is to Love + Erich Fromm + A Master Work + This Book Changed My Life! + Not a Self-Help Book, Thank God             The Miracle of Mindfulness41 reviews Thich Nhat Hanh Beacon Press, 1999 Miracles! + Easy concepts + Highly recommend this helpful book + Mindfulness Meditation Made Easy + A wonderful book.....             The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind29 reviews Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, ... Harper Paperbacks, 2001 Thoroughly enjoyable and informative + Worth reading + at least 6 stars An extremely readable overview of infant developmental psychology, this book provides fascinating details of the last thirty years of research on infant minds. The basic organization around three classic problems in epistemology (Other Minds, External Objects, and Language) will particularly appeal ...             Wider Than the Sky: A Revolutionary View of Consciousness (Penguin Press Science) Gerald M. Edelman Penguin Books Ltd, 2005 In this, his first book aimed at the general reader, Gerald Edelman describes how consciousness arises in complex brains and how it is related to evolution, to the development of the self, and to the origins of feelings, learning, and memory. Edelman's theories offer a solution to the mind-body problem. An understanding of the workings of consciousness in scientific terms would be of enormous ...             To Have or to Be?11 reviews Erich Fromm Continuum, 2005 Process, not possession + Great Book - Only For People With Active Brains :-) + Great book + For serious reader             Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems)16 reviews Mitchel Resnick The MIT Press, 1997 The arcane made accessible + great presentation of the concepts of decentralization + Great Starting Point in Agent based Modelling On the surface, the book seems focused on computers and even video games. This makes the activities appealing for middle and high school students. However, the ideas in this book are actually relevant to two entirely different fields: 1) genetics, and 2) artificial intelligence. Both these ...             The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World26 reviews Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Holt Paperbacks, 2004 Very good read + Fascinating read.... + Metric Conversion Chart + Earth systems logical thoght processes.             The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)31 reviews F. A. Hayek University Of Chicago Press, 1991 Politicians should read this book + The best refutation of socialism that I've yet read + A Timeless Classic + The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism + excellent service             Seven Deadly Colours1 review Andrew Parker Simon & Schuster, 2006 The Magic of Colour Excepting the subtitle - why must so many of today's science writers suggest shortcomings in Darwin's analysis? - this is an excellent depiction of how natural selection has dealt with vision. The second volume of Parker's trilogy on the topic, this one shows how colour perception - or lack of it ...             Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag: Author of In Search of ...32 reviews John Gribbin Back Bay Books, 1996 12 years old, still 96% relevant + An excellent review of quantum physics and reality + My Head Spun Afterwards...but it was a Good Spin! + OK, but Gribbin's In Search of Schrodingers Cat is Better.