Tag Archives: Isaac Asimov

This Week at the Library (15/8)

Posted on August 15, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: Firestarter, Stephen King Hard Call, John McCain Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman The Ascent of Science, Brian L. Silver I began this week with Stephen King’s Firestarter, which was … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (7/8)

Posted on August 7, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice The Age of Synthesis, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser Foundation, Isaac Asimov Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau I, Robot; Isaac Asimov I began this week with Anne Rice’s Interview with … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (31/7)

Posted on July 31, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx Nine Tales from Tomorrow, Isaac Asimov Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century, Neil Postman Books that Changed the World, Robert B. Downs The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene I mentioned a few … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (24/7)

Posted on July 24, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: Personal Memoirs, US Grant The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking Asimov’s Mysteries, Isaac Asimov Primates of the World, Rod and Ken Preston-Mafham The Rise of Reason, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser I began this week … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (17/07/08)

Posted on July 17, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Harry Potter Universe by Tere Stouffer The Undertaker’s Window by Philip Margolin The History of Science from 1945 to the 1990s by Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (3/7)

Posted on July 3, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: The Steel Wave, Jeff Shaara The History of Science in the 19th Century, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser Tales of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin The Blank Slate, Stephen Pinker The … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (17/6)

Posted on June 17, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books this Update: The History of Science in the 18th Century, Ray Spangenburg & Diane Moser More Tales of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins This … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (23/3)

Posted on March 23, 2008 by smellincoffee

Books Included in this Update:The Great War: Breakthrough by Harry TurtledoveBlood and Iron by Harry TurtledoveScience Firsts by Robert AdlerDarwin’s Ghost by Steve JonesPalestine: Peace not Apartheid by Jimmy CarterThe Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac AsimovStar Trek Academy: … Continue reading →

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This Week At the Library (12/7)

Posted on July 12, 2007 by smellincoffee

The first book I read last week was Jean M. Auel’s The Valley of Horses. It is the second in Auel’s Earth’s Children series, and I found it immensely entertaining if a bit too fantastic to be believable. In the … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (3/7)

Posted on July 3, 2007 by smellincoffee

I’ve had a lot of good reading the last few weeks, which is not suprising given how heavily steeped my library selections were in science. I began with Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade. The cover of the book is … Continue reading →

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