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Book Review: Paul Davies – “The Cosmic Jackpot”

Written by Christian Plessl on 24.02.2008 |

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve finished reading the book “Cosmic Jackpot” by Paul Davies (ISBN: 978-0618592265) and I’m still impressed by this wonderful book. Paul Davies is physicist and cosmologist and has written a number of popular science books on cosmology. In “The Cosmic Jackpot” Davies discusses one of the fundamental questions [...]

Book Review: “The Undercover Economist” by Tim Harford

Written by Christian Plessl on 30.01.2007 |

Recently, a couple of economics books that address the layman without prior knowledge in economics have been published. After their success in the US, these books have reached also Europe’s bookstores. The authors set out to prove the prejudice that economics is a dull and boring subject wrong. Tim Harford’s book The Undercover Economist is a book targeted at laymans in economy and proves that economics is neither dull nor boring.

Book review: Steve Wozniak — iWoz

Written by Christian Plessl on 27.12.2006 |

Steve Wozniak iWoz (From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It) ISBN-13: 978-0393061437 Steve Wozniak embodies the archetype of what people (sometimes disrespectfully) denote as a “nerd” or “computer geek”. He is doubtlessly a brilliant engineer and inventor, but on the other side, he is a shy [...]