Boulder Book Club discussion

Looking through the Daedalus Books catalog, which I received in the mail today, I realized that I wanted to read almost ALL the science books:

Darwin's Armada, by Ian McCalman
Dark Side of the Moon,Werhher Von Braun, the Space Race, the 3rd Reich, etc. by Wayne Biddle
Edge of Physics, by Anil Ananthaswamy
A Force of Nature, the Frontier Genius of E. Rutherford, by Richard Reeves
Geekspeak, by Graham Tattersall
The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot
How it Ends: From You to the Universe, by Chris Impey
How We Live and Why We Die: the Secret Lives of Cells, by Lewis Wolpert

Have any of you read these titles, or are you interested in any of them for the Club????

I like these! Particularly DSotM.

I also read:

The Fullness of Wings (a story of man powered flight)
Chariots of Apollo (story of the LEM)

I'm about half way through "Edge of Physics." It's okay, but my motivation to finish it is evaporating in accordance with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (or something like that -- I'm scientifically illiterate, so I probably shouldn't make analogies like this).

Ananthaswamy visits some interesting, remote places where physical and astronomical observations are underway (or planned), including Lake Baikal and South Africa.

There's some interesting history regarding the development of large optical telescopes; the book then moves on to neutrino collectors (such as Baikal)and radio telescope arrays.

I find some of the science difficult to fathom, but it seems I'm able to absorb enough for the book to have some scientific educational value.