I May Not Be Totally Perfect, but Parts of Me Are Excellent (Brilliant Thoughts Series No 1)3 reviews Ashleigh Brilliant Brilliant Enterprises, 1997 Wonderfully chuckley humor. Makes me smile. + medication + Truthful yet extremely witty! This book is very humorous. It brings to mind many of the bits of life I have lived. The best part is that it is not isolated issues. In addition, the sketches add a great deal to the total humor. I just happened to come across it in the library. Such a treat. Thank you for brightening my ...             Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion210 reviews Michio Kaku Anchor, 1995 Great book !!! + A good read, albeit a bit dated and rambling.... + good read-non-genius friendly. + Very Understandable Treatise On The Search For The Theory of Everything             Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers (Helix Books)7 reviews Calvin C. Clawson Basic Books, 1999 One of the best books about math that I have read. + Excellent introduction to number theory + Study Guide + Superb book by a highly intuitive author + Great introduction to Number Theory             God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything793 reviews Christopher Hitchens Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007 Untitled, Sorry. + Informative and persuasive I've absolutely loved everything Christopher Hitchens has said about religion in this book and everything else he's had to say about religion before and after. He's a brilliant man who's done his homework. But I think the title is misleading because I don't think god(as in the concept or ...             Anxiety, Phobias, and Panic5 reviews Reneau Z. Peurifoy Grand Central Publishing, 2005 copies to family and friends + Too Flinght Book + For the anxious and frustrated.. a book that understands + easy for laymen + a great step-by-step practical solution             The God Delusion1245 reviews Richard Dawkins Mariner Books, 2008 like Yosemite Park,..spectacular, breathtaking, mind changing + Bully Pulpit Not a Bully Brit I'd like to personally thank this author for making a sea-change in my way of seeing! I haven't felt so permanently uplifted, so privileged to be human, since I read Kerouac's "On the Road" a couple decades ago. I started this book with utter contempt,.."all right, I'll see what this jerk's beef ...             God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist142 reviews Victor J. Stenger Prometheus Books, 2008 Proves the case! + Great Arguments + God The Failed Hypothesis? Most reviewers of Stenger's "God: The Failed Hypothesis" fail to recognize the unique contribution he has made to the logic of the debate. The methodology he uses is different from most of the arguments against God, and it is important to understand this, because his book is a major step forward on ...             Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)23 reviews John Milton Penguin Classics, 2003 Timeless Classic + The Epic Poem of the English Language + Possibly the Best Edition Out There + Did finish it yet + A Humbling Triumph of Emotion, Spirituality and Despair.             Ethics (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Benedictus de Spinoza Penguin Classics, 2005 The best translation of the "Ethics" in the english language + Unsurpassed brilliance + Spinoz's Ethics + Philosophy by a Master             An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume)15 reviews David Hume Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 As Exciting and Thought-Provoking as Philosophy Gets + Not An Ending, But A Beginning + Descartes' Ultimate Error + Hume at his best + A comment on one part of Hume 's classic             An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming28 reviews Al Gore Viking Juvenile, 2007 May be scary for some children (and adults) + Don't believe in Global Warming? Are you insane?? I gave this 5 stars because it is a gorgeous book, well written, with convincing research. However, I caution parents that the data is a bit alarming and may give sensitive children nightmares. Ice is melting in mountains and near the poles, and ocean levels will rise and whole cultures will have ...             The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)42 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Books, 1977 A Correction of False Vulgarization of Neitzsche + Nietzsche makes it fun + good deal, + Portable and easy to read Nietzsche + An excellent selection from an excellent phisopher             PsychoCybernetics1 review M.D., F.I.C.S. Maxwell Maltz Pocket Books, 1969 Psychology Classic This is a classic book on psychology. Well explained in simple language. Disagreement: The mind doesn't only think/remember in pictures or movies, it also think in other senses. e.g. sound. What's Beethoven's 5th symphony like? Me Me Me Do ... Right? No pictures are involved. Smells, ...             Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe38 reviews Martin Rees Basic Books, 2001 Excellent Overview of Cosmology + An easy, delightful read -- + Absolutely fascinating! + Well-informed speculation, meandering text, ugly cover + very interesting.             We Are the Weather Makers: The Story of Global Warming Tim Flannery Penguin Books Ltd, 2007             Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)75 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Classics, 2003 What was on Zarathustra's mind on those mountains? + FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: "...PUTTING HIS FINGER ON BAD ARTS OF INTERPRETATION" (start here with Nietzsche) + Way Beyond Good & Evil Beyond Good and Evil clarifies much of what is left in the air in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and hinted at in the Gay Science. It helps to be familiar with TSZ, or at least the Gay Science coming into reading this text, given the subtlety of the allusions to his former writings and concepts, and the ...             The Anti-Christ48 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Wilder Publications, 2008 Who thought Nietzche wrote comedy? + Relevant passages before you embark: + An essay against the Platonism for the poor I went into this book with no real knowledge of Nietzche's writings, and even less about how funny the topic of Christianity could be as told from the Nihilist perspective. I was chuckling more often than not while reading about the history of the Christian faith as he belittles their faith in what ...             What Nietzsche Really Said33 reviews Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins Schocken, 2001 Nietzsche Distilled and Made Accessible + A nice explanation of a great thinkers thought + Finally we can stop the madness... + Very good overview             The Power of Myth129 reviews Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers Anchor, 1991 A fitting Introduction + Resonates with the song of the universe deep inside us. + Thought-provoking + Outstanding + "A Revolutionary Impact"             The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author285 reviews Richard Dawkins Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 The Selfish Gene + If you read one book on evolution... + Why take an interest in science? + We have a genetic predisposition to act self interestedly? Who woulda thunk it? + Shockingly Good