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Book Review: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Evolution : "From Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to the modern theories of macro- and micro-evolution, from the misuses of Darwins theory to the Scopes Monkey Trial and the rulings of the Kansas Board of Education, a comprehensive yet eminently readable book on human evolution. Most books on evolution offer too much information, presuppose that readers want to get into great detail on the subject, or specialize, so that only part of the story is revealed. The Complete Idiots Guide� series style is excellent for an overview for curious readers. The keywords 'human evolution' call up 114 Websites and 463,000 Web pages on Yahoo. Newspapers and periodicals offer dozens of articles on evolution and related topics every month. While humans have been evolving since life on earth began, the geological, paleontological, and natural explorations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which revealed that the Earth was far ol...

Book Review: Books: Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design : "Design can be easy and difficult at the same time, but in the end, it is mostly difficult.' So writes engineering professor Petroski (The Evolution of Useful Things, etc.) in his latest effort, a wide-ranging exploration of the history and design of the everyday technologies like supermarket aisles and telephone keypads that are practically invisible in their ubiquity. Petroski emphasizes that these 'small things' aren't in fact the results of a smooth and simple design process, but are rather the products of a constellation of oft-conflicting constraints, frequently with unintended consequences (consider the recently redesigned, fat-handled toothbrushes that, while more ergonomic, have rendered millions of traditional toothbrush holders useless). The book meanders through this world of design, less concerned with making a direct argument than with reveling in the complexities of the eve...

Book Review: Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning : "In this book, Belgian biochemist de Duve comes across as an exceptionally genial, humanistic scientist. Awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in medicine for his groundbreaking work in cell biology, de Duve here surveys the scientific approach to understanding how life began, crucial bottlenecks in its increasing complexity, and the question of the contingency versus the inevitability of the entire process. Born in 1917, de Duve regards this presentation as his testament, which perhaps motivates his addressing, periodically in the text, overtly in the final chapter, religious beliefs about the existence of life. Unlike aggressive scientific atheists such as Richard Dawkins, nonatheist de Duve sympathetically reasons through why it is unnecessary to invoke nonphysical influences. On the other hand, he argues against assertions that life and its evolved forms are dumb, naturally selected flukes. Beneath the philosophizing, de Duve d...

Book Review: The Chamber - By John Grisham Its a kind of sattire on the existing execution system in the US in mid 60's. The story starts with a bomb explosion in a Jew Lawyer. The plot was done by few whites, those who use to hate Jews. The story revolves around a guy named Sam- One of those haters kind, and his grandson-Adam. The author presents a kind of elegant style in show how a normal Trial works in a US Court and how everyone starting from the Law Fir, the Lawyers involved and the witnesses. The end though expected to be something really intutive, turns out to be quite different and boring. Though overall I will grade it as A-

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