read bbc wonders of the universe by professor brian cox and andrew cohen the born professor writing an easy guide easy on the eye photos from the TV series fill the text almost the Cosmos of our age but lacks sagan's skills ful of glossy shiny gas hubble photos and words that never go beyond the theories four stars for effort
the world history of animation stephen cavalier lavish volume desite its short length at 416 pages illustrated with stills and reads like a very good website excellent value for the price detailing animation from 1899 to 2010 a book of memories great on mr magoo, bugs, porky and woody but also having room gfor len lye the canadian film board zagreb films and the whole range of techniques from anime to motion capture
greatest show on earth richard dawkins or rather as styled RICHARD DAWKINS greatest show on earth the evidence for evolution the triumph of the evolved ego dawkins goes back to darwinian diatribe and the origins of evolutuion with of course asides on evolution versus creationism the issue with this is that no matter what evolution is a curriculum subject based on remembering lists of clades and phylla and unlike creationism has no place for basic myth and emotions of story telling and with evolution depend on its own scholar language and complicated paths of descent lacks the hold over public popular imagination
dawkins is of famed an athest but fails to go beyond church atendance in the church of england as evidence and as anyone should know the church of england and religion are not the same thing
wireless by charles stross themes from 1950s sci fi and well told the first story missile gap about aliens moving the earth and its 1962 cold war standoffs to a huge disc wolrd where the soviets and US carry on the cold war or the colder war where stross combines cold war missile wars and HP lovecraft aliens as soviet allies two of the best
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