Science and Inquiry discussion

Please add a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for October 2014. Please be sure to use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to add a link to the Goodreads book page for the book.

You may of course suggest a book that has been nominated before but didn't win.

Please do NOT nominate a book that was first published within the last three months. Newer books may not be available to all members.

Nominations will close on August 22 or when we have about ten good suggestions, whichever occurs first.

You may nominate more than one book if you wish, but we may not include all of your choices unless there are not very many other nominations within the time allotted.

You find that The Speed of Light is a very easy read, enjoyable to anyone. The book contains just one equation! It is an introduction to major discoveries about light. The book will be very entertaining to the Science and Inquiry group.

I would like to read Darwin's Ghosts

Wil Wheaton gives this one 5 stars. I'd like to read it.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe

He's starting a book tour in the Boston area in Sept.
http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/07/22/what-...

Jaye wrote: "Wil Wheaton gives this one 5 stars. I'd like to read it.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions[bookcover:What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Abs..."

This sounds like an interesting book. Unfortunately, it hasn't been published yet! Please re-nominate it again, several months after it has been published.

I would like to read The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science or, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution.

Aurelien wrote: "I would like to read The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science or, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution."

Aurelien, we read "The Age of Wonder" several years ago here. It is an excellent book, and I recommend that you read it. Here is a link to our discussion of the book.

Your second nomination "Ingenious Pursuits" also looks fascinating, and we will include it among the nominations.

Oh! Thanks for the link! Next time, before nominating books I will check if you read them already ;-)

May I suggest my book 'Lines of Space - Source of Fundamental Forces and Constituent of all Matter in the Universe", which has gotten good reviews and is considered a good book for teaching physics as Diana Loera, one of the top 500 reviewers at amazon has last week said about it- "Excellent way to present Physics and make it easy to understand."
Here is the link http://amzn.to/15Yg5JY

Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe, Jeremiah P. Ostriker
"... as scientists confront the mysteries of the ultimate causes of cosmic structure formation and the real nature and origin of dark matter and dark energy."

Might I suggest something off topic from the universe but as complex and as unknown. This author writes for the reader and brings forth obscure ideas supporting his work with actually research. He is ironically a theoretical physicist though... Published February of this year so it should be available to all by now due to his popularity. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind Good day all.

Nominations have been closed.

Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

NOTE. Since we had only 6 nominations this month, we have added some of the top vote getters from earlier polls to give us a wider variety of choices.