For some reason that link is broken. Here it is again: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dra...9659?ean=9780345435293&itm=2&usri=dragons+egg By the way, get this, the premise of this novel is life on a neutron star!!! Hard core sci-fi.
You may also have an interest in reading these, I found them informative and interesting reads. -Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton Studies in Complexity) -The Sciences of the Artificial -The Psychology Of Everyday Things -The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference -The Evolution of Cooperation -I, Robot: To Protect
I remember seeing Small Worlds and thinking it would be a good read. I had forgotten about it. I read Sync by Strogatz and fount it fascinating. It actually lead to a trading system, but I couldn't get it to work at the time. Don't remember seeing The Sciences of the Artificial. I will try to find it and browse it. Same for The Psychology Of Everyday Things. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is probably a must read, and is on my stack of books to read. The Evolution of Cooperation is something that i read long ago I think and I liked it. Might be worth browsing the new edition again. I Robot is good, but probably don't have time to read it. Thanks.
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." - Franz Kakfa
"Always reading never read." Ouch... ... Although I wanted to write a book on USG bankruptcy, I regret that I didn't...My notes are lost and long gone somewhere in cyber space.
On the topic of books, am I the only one who still swears to real paper and not electronic books? Sure, it would be fantastic to have all my books accessible in electronic format both for reference and mobility, but I really enjoy getting away from electricity and feel the paper in my hands. It is good for my soul. I may be ready to compromise with books of a more technical nature, but I don`t see myself reading fiction on a tablet anytime soon.
I am not a religious person at least not in a conventional sense, yet I consider myself to be a deeply spiritual person. No matter, I find this book to be extremely wise: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/falling-upward-richard-rohr/1027752823
"Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics [Hardcover]" - by Paul J. Nahin http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mr...er+Intriguing+Stories+of+Mathematical+Physics "Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory" - by Avner Ash http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ell...iptic+tales:+curves,+counting,+and+number+the Two books for the non-professional enthuthiast that show what mathematics is REALLY about.