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message 1: by Chrissy (new)

Chrissy (navaboo) Well, I dropped the ball on March. My research has been pretty intense this past month, trying to get all my experiments run before the participant pool runs dry at the end of term.

This is my sole excuse for failing to post a monthly read for March, and it's not a very good one.

I make it up to you by taking requests for April's read. Any nonfiction subject is welcome, as long as the book would be easy for people to acquire on a fairly short notice (i.e., no brand new popular science).

Also, please join me in welcoming all newcomers to the group! It looks like we've been expanding a bit since I was last active here, and I'm personally thrilled to see it. I can't wait to learn with all of you.


message 2: by Frank (new)

Frank (fmorrison42) | 5 comments Mod
I think we should take a turn for more a more historical topic. I have been looking at this book and am absolutely fascinated by the topic. Anyone who has seen the movie "Elizabeth" would agree. While I know the movie was not quite completely accurate, they still add in this story throughout and hold true to most of the actual events in Sir Walsingham's life and service to Queen Elizabeth I. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage


message 3: by K (new)

K (karazhans) | 5 comments Greetings, I'm a bit new here so I'm quite sure the requirements for a book to be suggested or the genres welcome. With that in mind I would like to post twp of different categories should one not be acceptable.

On the topic of History, as Frank had brought up, The Quantum Ten: A Story Of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition And Science is the amazing account of the birth of quantum physics and the ten most prominent physicists of the time. It delves into the personal lives of familiar names such as Einstein, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and more.

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future is a longer book at ~400 pages. A collection of non-linear essays written by a plethora of scholars. Their fortes run the gambit from artists, neuroscientists, physicists, philosophers, economists, and other flavors of scholars. All explain their take on the way the internet has changed their minds and how they work.


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