by Nicholas G. Penniman IV, 2019, Barringer Publishing, Naples, Florida. After dinner one night in Naples our dinner host offered to lend me some books. I selected this one for two reasons: The topic interested me as I was in … Continue reading →
2021, by Walter Isaacson, Kindle version, Simon & Shuster I was amazed by this book and the discoveries that it described. I was also impressed by the accomplishments of the female scientists, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuel Charpientier among others. Our … Continue reading →
by Kenneth R. Miller, 1999, Harper Perennial, New York Ken is a professor of cell biology at Brown University who is known for his defense of the science of evolution against the attempts to teach creationism and/or intelligent design in … Continue reading →
by David Riech, 2018, Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House, New York This is a totally fascinating book about a subject I knew very little. This is not to say that I didn’t know anything about DNA; it’s … Continue reading →
by Annie Jacobsen, 2015, Back Bay Books This is a fascinating story of how the United States flouted its own laws to bring Nazi scientists to America. After WWII, relations with the Russians quickly deteriorated into the Cold War. Both … Continue reading →
by Yuval Noah Harari, 2017, Harper Collins Books I looked forward to reading this book as I thought it would provide me with some ideas as to how we will progress in the future. Sadly, I was disappointed as it … Continue reading →
by David McCullough, 2015, Simon and Schuster, New York I thought this book was interesting, primarily because I didn’t know that much about the Wright brothers, even though I had made one visit to Kitty Hawk. McCullough, as usual in … Continue reading →
by Richard Snow, 2013, Scribner, New York I thought the subject matter of this book was absolutely fascinating. How Henry Ford invented the Model T and then made it available to the masses is a great story, no matter how … Continue reading →
by Steven Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow, unabridged, read by Erik Davies, 2005, Random House Audio I have a remodeling project going on and that is why I have so many audio books listed versus hard print (in addition to the … Continue reading →