This book was addictive. A curious café with time
travel. But this isn’t science fiction but rather a heartfelt and tender exploration
of the self, human relations, and understanding. Yet this is less science fiction and more a heartfelt and tender exploration of the self, human relations, and understanding.
Kawaguchi takes us on a journey of redemption, loss,
joy, despair, reconciliation, sorrow, acceptance, grief, and love with his
simple and touching story that pulls you into its orbit and reaches deep
inside.
This is one of those rare books that is both pleasing and improving and does so before the coffee gets cold.
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.
Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most…
I think this is easily the best non-fiction book about
space and science. What I loved about it is that Sagan weaves so many threads
into a wide set of subjects and disciplines. By so doing, he tells a musical and
poetic story of the life of our universe not just to those with a scientific
interest but also to the wider public.
I was captivated by his ability to fascinate and move
seamlessly from astrophysics to biology, genetics to mythology, from Kepler to
Cuneiform, satellite arrays to the double helix, infinite regression to
interstellar space travel, from the Rosetta Stone to the Corpus Callosum, and
more.
Cosmos vividly paints the big picture of our world and destiny with majestic wonder and awe.
* Spacecraft missions to nearby planets * The Library of ancient Alexandria * The human brain * Egyptian hieroglyphics * The origin of life * The death of the sun * The evolution of galaxies * The origins of matter, suns and worlds
The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilisation grew up together, and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting.
I enjoyed this and thought it an
excellent analysis of the climate problem, doing so without any of the
catastrophism so dominant in media and political discourse.
Here, Lomborg makes
a comparative study of climate change and many of the other major problems
facing the world and succinctly demonstrates that most of our public policy in
the West on climate change is unsustainably expensive and will make almost no
difference to outcomes.
In it, he lays out a better direction for governments
and international organizations to take without losing sight that climate
change is just one problem among many and not even the most important.
It is a compelling, well-informed, data-deep book that ignores all the alarmism and
focuses objectively on the problem.
The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.
Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is.…
Amazonian River Fever has decimated Prague,
forcing the few survivors of the savage pandemic to flee to the uninfected
village of Otočka. Doctor Eliška Korbova, having desperately tried to save as
many people as she could, is hopeful that the village will be their salvation.
But Otočka is no paradise. The colonel in
charge, the doctor’s half-sister, is fast becoming a tyrant,
and a new fearful ideology is taking hold.
With everyone around her descending
into madness and barbarism, Eliška must find a way to stop the colonel and save
the village before it’s too late.
