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Book List Marco's Selection
| Unweaving The RainbowScience, Delusion, and the Apetite for Wonder
This is Dawkins' latest book (October 1998). This time he diverges from his usual evolutionary biology context and focuses on "demystifying" science. Dawkins enjoys showing how science really can be beautiful. A truly wonderful book.
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| The Demon-Haunted WorldScience as
a candle in the dark
The late Carl Sagan's last work. For those of you still convinced of UFO's, Alien Abductions, and other pseudoscientific
mumbo jumbo - this book is for you! Here's a review of this book and John Catalano's tribute to Carl Sagan.
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| Intellectual Impostures (England)/
Fashionable Nonsense (USA)
This book centers around a hoax promalgated by NYU Physicist Alan Sokal. It is all about how highly respected individuals (post-modernists) in prominent academic positions who have disengenuously distorted scientific/
mathematical theories in their works. The author must have had a great time reading some of the howlers eminent literary critics such as Latour, Kristeva and others have made. Well worth the read! |
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