Subject Tag: medicine

A Few Science Book Reviews (The Great Equations by Crease and Two by Gawande)

Filed under: Nonfiction, Reviews

For those that read this blog regularly, it is probably no surprise that I prefer art, literature, history, and social sciences to mathematics and science.
Before this month began, I hadn’t read any books in the Dewey Decimal 500s category or the 600s category (for the Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge) in all of 2009. I also [...]

The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin

Filed under: Nonfiction, Reviews

Sometimes I read nonfiction to get a general idea about something I don’t know anything about or a person who intrigues me. Other times I read nonfiction to learn something specific in depth; such books may be hard to read cover to cover, but they still merit a careful reading.
The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin was [...]

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