- Derbyshire, John. Prime Obsession. Washington:
Joseph Henry Press, 2003. ISBN 0-309-08549-7.
- This is simply the finest popular mathematics book I have
ever read.
- Adams, Scott. The Dilbert Future. New York:
HarperBusiness, 1997. ISBN 0-88730-910-0.
- Uh oh. He's on to the secret
about Switzerland (chapter
4).
- Wright, Robert. Nonzero. New York: Pantheon
Books, 2000. ISBN 0-679-44252-9.
- Yuck. Four hundred plus pages of fuzzy thinking, tangled
logic, and prose which manages to be simultaneously tortured and
jarringly colloquial ends up concluding that globalisation and the
attendant extinction of liberty and privacy are not only good things,
but possibly Divine (chapter 22). Appendix 1 contains the lamest
description of the iterated prisoner's dilemma I have ever read, and
the key results table on 341 is wrong (top right entry, at least in the
hardback). Bill Clinton loved this book. A paperback edition is now
available.
- Fenton, James. An Introduction to English
Poetry. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2002. ISBN 0-374-10464-6.
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- Barrow, John D. The Constants of Nature. New
York: Pantheon Books, 2002. ISBN 0-375-42221-8.
- This main body copy in this book is set in a type font
in which the digit “1” is almost indistinguishable from the capital
letter “I”. Almost—look closely at the top serif on the
“1” and you'll note that it rises toward the right while the “I” has
a horizontal top serif. This struck my eye as ugly and antiquated,
but I figured I'd quickly get used to it. Nope: it looked just as
awful on the last page as in the first chapter. Oddly, the numbers
on pages 73 and 74 use a proper digit “1”, as do numbers within block
quotations.
- King, David. The Commissar Vanishes. New York:
Henry Holt, 1997. ISBN 0-8050-5295-X.
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- Kagan, Robert. Of Paradise and Power. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN 1-4000-4093-0.
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- Carpenter, [Malcolm] Scott and Kris Stoever. For Spacious Skies. New York:
Harcourt, 2002. ISBN 0-15-100467-6.
- This is the most detailed, candid, and
well-documented astronaut memoir I've read (Collins' Carrying the Fire
is a close second). Included is a pointed riposte to
“the man malfunctioned” interpretation of Carpenter's
MA-7 mission given in Chris Kraft's autobiography Flight (May 2001). Co-author Stoever is Carpenter's
daughter.
- Arkes, Hadley. Natural Rights and the Right to
Choose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. ISBN 0-521-81218-6.
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