Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Climate Change

00 Remixed Review Lists, Complexity & Catastrophe, Environment (Problems), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Worth A Look

Climate Change

Review DVD: National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World

Review DVD: National Geographic–Human Footprint

Review DVD: The 11th Hour

Review: An Inconvenient Truth–The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)

Review: Catastrophe–An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Review: Eaarth–Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Review: Global Warming False Alarm–The Bad Science Behind the United Nations’ Assertion that Man-made CO2 Causes Global Warming

Review: Priority One–Together We Can Beat Global Warming

Review: The Next Catastrophe–Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

Review: The Real Global Warming Disaster

Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist–Measuring the Real State of the World

Review: The Weather Makers –How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (Hardcover)

Review: The Winds of Change–Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (Hardcover)

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on the War on Science

00 Remixed Review Lists, Science & Politics of Science, Worth A Look

War on Science

Review: The Republican War on Science

NOTE:  Included in the above review are three other books:

Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel Greenberg is the best over-all review, has a strong ethical component, and shows how the competition for money, rather than scientific progress, is diverting scarce resources and frustrating needed advances.

Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress by Daniel Sarewitz is a very useful antidote to the many books (Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near, comes to mind) that claim science will solve all problems and provide authoritative cost-effective solutions to century-old human problems.

Finally, Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works, edited by Lewis Bramscomb and James Keller, brings together a range of views crossing the environment within which scientific research takes place, evaluationg specific programs and policy tools, and making re

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Research & Development

00 Remixed Review Lists, Education (Universities), Worth A Look

Research & Development

Review: Normal Accidents–Living with High-Risk Technologies

Review: R & D Collaboration on Trial–The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation

Review: The Digital Economy–Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

Review: The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It

Review: The Politics of Information Management–Policy Guidelines

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Communications & Computing

00 Remixed Review Lists, Communications, Worth A Look

Communications & Computing

Review: Computer-Related Risks

Review: Cuckoo’s Egg

Review: CYBERPUNK–Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

Review: Cybershock–Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption

Review: Database Nation –The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (Paperback)

Review: Masters of Deception–The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

Review: Networks and Netwars–The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy

Review: Pearl Harbor Dot Com

Review: Stealing the Network–How to Own a Continent

Review: Terminal Compromise

Review: The Best of 2600–A Hacker Odyssey

Review: The Hacker Crackdown–Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier

NOTE:  Hackers as pioneers pushing the edge of the envelope, are represented in Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Innovation.

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Religion

00 Remixed Review Lists, Religion & Politics of Religion, Worth A Look

Religion

Review: American Fascists–The Christian Right and the War On America

Review: American Gospel–God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (Hardcover)

Review: Dogs of God–Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors (Hardcover)

Review: Fighting Identity–Sacred War and World Change (The Changing Face of War)

Review: God’s Politics–Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Hardcover)

Review: Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

Review: Palestine Inside Out–An Everyday Occupation

Review: Piety & Politics–The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom

Review: Religion Gone Bad–The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right

Review: Tempting Faith–An Inside Story of Political Seduction

Review: The End of Faith–Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)

Review: The Left Hand of God–Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right (Hardcover)

Review: The War After Armageddon

Review: While Europe Slept–How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)