Book Talk

I am wanting to write a chemistry book with a little fictional spinoff. It will be a story about a person as small as a proton and with a pencil as small as a quark(which is about 1/3 the size of a proton) discovering things in chemistry. Okay maybe the pencil is smaller than a quark 1/3 the size of a proton. Hmm Come to think of it up quarks are much less than 1/3 of a proton so maybe it is the size of an up quark. The person even discovers oxygen chains that are similar to alkanes(single bond carbon chains). He decides that these oxygen chains should be called oxanes and oxygen rings called cyclooxanes. It is inorganic(no carbon) so he puts the ox before the ane to show…

I'm writing a book and it's turning out quite well. The only issue I'm having is finding a publisher that I don't have to pay them to publish my work. Can anyone help?? It's fiction/fantasy. It will be around three to four hundred pages once finished.

Hi All, I'm looking to see if there's a "boxed set" or otherwise cohesive series of important contemporary science books (for example, featuring the likes of Richard Dawkins or Stephen Hawking). However, a pretty serious search on my local large independent bookstore's website, amazon, and google, turned up nothing (the closest was TimeLife's set from the 60's!). Can anyone help me out? My intention is to give these to my dad, an avid science reader, as a 65th birthday present. Thanks!

I am looking for books which are not just typical math. books by just giving least theory and difficult exercise. I am looking for a book that develops the real thinking ability and along with it covers problem soling skills by providing interesting questions. If you know about a book covering only one or two chapters of the following list, I will still love to read that. Syllabus PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS Fundamental principle of counting. Permutations and Combinations, derivation of formulae and their connections and simple applications. MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION Principle of Mathematical Induction and its simple applications. BINOMIAL THEOREM AND ITS …

I think something I may start posting all of my papers and essays here when I'm done with them. I'm in 8th grade, so if they don't go too much below the surface, don't be surprised, here's a paper on the Black Panther party I wrote for class. The Black Panther Party, By ******** In 1966 California, a movement was started by recent jailbird, Huey P. Newton, and 5 other members created a movement based of a principal of Marxism and Black Pride, titled the Black Power Movement for Self-Defense. The six founding fathers of the movement were Elbert Howard, Huey P. Newton, Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale, Reggie Forte, and Little Bobby Hutton. The organiza…

A free pdf file can be downloaded from here: http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/allies-of-humanity-book1.pdf The book is also translated and available to download for free in these languages: French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, and Italian so far. You can find the translations here: http://alliesofhumanity.org/allies1/

I need to share a message of vital importance with you. The e-book attached here is about our world, our environment and climate, our future, and our security as a civilization here on Earth. The Great Waves of Change speaks of the biggest problems facing our planet: the growing environmental and economic instability, the rising shortages of food, water, and energy, and the growing risk of widespread war and upheaval. Perhaps more importantly, this book has shown me how to respond to the changing world without fear or desire, but from the deeper wisdom that lives in the heart of every person. The Great Waves of Change will save lives as the world becomes more unstab…

A free e-book of LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE can be requested from here: http://www.newmessage.org/nmfg/The_New_Message_from_God.html

Jon Gertner's 2012 book is a readable history of some interesting personalities and their stimulating work environment. A unique institution funded by a regulated monopoly, Bell Labs worked on radar and other vital projects for the WWII war effort. The war might have gone badly had there not been this technical talent pool already assembled. The transistor, information theory, and other inventions conceived and developed at Bell Labs made the wired world we know today.

So I was given a book by someone who is a distant friend of the family who had found this old book lying around that they thought i might like, I wasn't sure picked it up and within the first 2 pages it had be so damn interested i couldn't wait to see how the rest of the book turned out. Il type you the back of the book. "Winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped into adventure. An artist safecracker practical joker and storyteller Feynmans life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unque…

hey guys, any very wonderful medical detective books you guys can recommend ? PL provide with authors, thanks. : - )

What books should be mandatory reading for anyone with an interest in reading?

Have any of you read, or own, "On the Shoulders of Giants" by Stephen Hawking. This book differs from most of his written works in that instead of talking about string theory and other troubles with unifying all of physics, he instead talks about past scientists and all the landmark books/written works that have contributed to our understanding of the universe today. The 5 scientists he talks about are Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein. And the book is basically a compilation of their original works, as they wrote them back in the day. All works that ultimately gave birth to physics and the modern understanding of our universe in general. It is one of…

Hi folks, So I have a four-year old, and I thought that this would be a good time to start introducing scientific concepts to him. (It's never too early.) I started with two books: 1) Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters and Lauren Stringer 2) Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Its Cosmic Story by Jennifer Morgan and Dana Lynne Andersen Both are pretty good, and caught my kid's attention. We've read them multiple times, I actually really like Born With A Bang, because I don't have a strong astronomy/physics background and this book made the big bang and the origins of the solar system highly compelling by (I can't believe I'm sayin…

What type of (deadly) radiation would we encounter in space if we were to fly around aimlessly? Either than that, what's really stopping us from getting the hell off of this rock?

I read the book on my new NOOK E-reader and enjoyed it very much. I learned a lot and the photographs in the book were very clear and sharp. I will buy "KILLING KENNEDY" when it come out in the summer by the same authors. (Bill was helped by another researcher.)Bill O'Reilly's Book (I spelled his name wrong on heading.)

I know for most of us the NAZI's were just evil men, psychopath is possibly too mild a word for the leaders who were really in charge but what if there was a method to their madness? What if they were really trying to practice necromancy? This short story by David Brin while totally fiction does raise the hackles on my neck.... http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.htm

My girlfriend bought this for me for Yule. It's basically an in-depth look at the upper-class pagan rituals in Ancient Europe and their connection with the seasons and runes. Although Mr. Vikernes does not hold an orthodox education, his analysis is still valuable in my mind. I liked the book though it was rather short (more of a pamphlet) and didn't contain all the specific cultural value portrayals and such I was hoping for, but it's esoteric content will keep me studying it for quite a while. From his website:

I'm currently reading Against Method, a book by Paul Feyerabend, which makes an interesting argument against a theme we commonly cite on SFN. The so-called scientific method, Feyerabend writes, is both a poor description of how science has actually been conducted over centuries and a poor framework to adopt if one were to enforce its rules. Strictly following the scientific method would only prevent discoveries, says Feyerabend. I haven't finished the book, but so far, Feyerabend has made interesting points. For example, we on SFN often argue that new hypotheses must be able to explain phenomena that older theories already can, and must make testable predictions which…

There's a book that came out on my favorite subjects: Science and Zombies called "Life to the Dead". It was pretty well done and it has an element of plausibility. So far it's only available on Amazon. Has anyone else read it?

I recently came across a cool site that provides daily updates of new popular science books (http://twitter.com/#!/popsciencebooks). Does anyone know more of such sites?

Sorry if this was the wrong section. I figured it didn't fit in the Biology section(Or any book forum). Plus it's specifically about a book... so yea... :< So I started reading Origin of Species just for the lulz and at the second paragraph of the first chapter (Variation under Domestication) Darwin talks about how variability happens right before conception than anything else, that is that it doesn't happen during embryo development but rather at that point it was already determined, and says that his reason to believe so was how animals are generally impaired to reproduce when in confinement, sometimes without regard to the level of confinement, and goes on some …

Came across this recently published book which tells the history of physics named Fizz. So far I've read about the meetings of "Fizz" (a young woman from the future) with Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton. Waiting to see how the book presents the harder stuff - Einstein and quantum physics. It's actually a fun way to learn - the book reminds me a lot of Sophie's World, a novel which has been a pretty popular introduction to philosophy since the 90s. Anyone else reading it? Thoughts on learning science via historical fiction?

Hi guys, I am a extreme novice in anything to do with quantum mechanics, but I would like to change this. So I am looking for a good book, one that will dive deep enough into quantum theory discussing things such as entanglement, quantum leaps and (I don't know the real term for this) quantum omnipresence to quench my thirst for knowledge . I understand that this will require some math, and wont have a issue learning new formulas for this, however it would be best if the book kept this to a minimum as I have no more then then a basic High School education. Thanks

I'm in 12th grade, getting ready to go into college to get my major in physics, getting ready to take the placement exams for my classes, and I'm sitting here thinking: Man my school gives really crappy math education. (The physics teacher is awesome, though.) So this is the predicament I find myself in. I really don't want to take college algebra. For me, that's just unacceptable. While I have a really good understanding of algebra, my knowledge in trig suffered tremendously because of the terrible work ethic of my teacher. (We talked about polar coordinates for about three weeks longer than needed.) So I'm looking for a good trig (and algebra, if you don't mind)…