Middlesex: A Novel854 reviews Jeffrey Eugenides Picador, 2002 You Are Such a Flirt + One of my favorites! + A Wonderfuf Read + From a pediatric Urology Nurse's view point, well done             The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next104 reviews Lee Smolin Houghton Mifflin, 2006 This is a VERY good book + Food for thought + Finding the Wrong Assumptions: How to Fix Physics + A priesthood under attack? + The Trouble with Physics             Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the ...13 reviews David Bodanis Crown, 2006 Great History + An Exceptional & Engaging Story This book gave me a fascinating piece of history that I was completly uninformed on. It is fascinating learning the details regarding life in a period that is completly foreign to our culture. 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A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera , and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This elegant volume brings together these widely ...             The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind141 reviews Julian Jaynes Mariner Books, 2000 Fascinating and controversial speculation + A new take on hallucination + Mind-blowing + Incredible insight into consciousness             Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography68 reviews John Toland Anchor, 1991 A must read!! + Hitler's darkening spiral + Excellent + Incredible ... + Adolf Hitler, a superlative popular history             China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America (Edition 001)43 reviews James Kynge Houghton Mifflin, 2006 A Startling Preview of the Emerging China + As China goes, so goes the world? + Great Book On China's Economic Miracle + great book + Good perspective on China in relation to the world             His Excellency: George Washington221 reviews Joseph J. Ellis Knopf, 2004 He's like Chickenman, He's Everywhere, He's Everywhere, but who is He? + A Great Man not an Deity + Excellent The essence of George Washington is everywhere in America. When we take out our billfold to pay a bill, there he is. When we watch the news of TV we always have reports from Washington. George Washington is the American version of Mount Olympas. He's there looking rather stoic on Mount ...             Truman286 reviews David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 1993 A massive and excellent biography of Harry Truman + Pray Obama's Read It + Here's a President for the Common Folk! + Truman + Long, but well worth the length             Alexander Hamilton250 reviews Ron Chernow Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 A forgotten Founding Father! + Exellent Bio + The Best of the Founding Father Biographies + jack's take + Fascinating bio!             Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)14 reviews Thomas Pynchon Penguin Classics, 2006 The Mother of All War Novels + It Depends + Ambivalent on This One + Huh?             The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York109 reviews Robert A. Caro Vintage, 1975 Power Reveals + An important book to read + How Old Man Moses Kept Rolling Along + Biography at its very best... + A brief review for a big, important, thorough and ground breaking book.             1776654 reviews David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2006 The Struggle of an Infant Nation + Popular History That Reads Like Suspense + A very intelligent account of 1776 + Remarkable Historical Account             Mellon: An American Life25 reviews David Cannadine Knopf, 2006 A GREAT biography of Andrew Mellon + Mellon + Simply the best biography I've ever read. + A biography that goes above and beyond. + history and sadness             No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith162 reviews Fawn M. Brodie Vintage, 1995 Well, I'm number 160 + Revolutionary material for those most impacted and probably least interested... + Requiem for a Heavyweight 159 Amazon reviewers have come before me to say what they think about this book by Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith. Before I read this book, I knew nothing about Joseph Smith and only a little more about Fawn Brodie, as I was once a graduate student studying ...             The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel84 reviews Hermann Hesse Picador, 2002 The best Hesse's book + Most important fiction of the XXth Century? + His best work First time I read it when I was 15, and I thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. One has to be prepared to read this book and to be able to accept all: strange combination of math, music, language, different ideas, search for harmony. I reread this book every 2-3 years.             On Opera Bernard Williams Yale University Press, 2006 Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera , and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This elegant volume brings together these widely ...