Featured Books On Science
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Featured Books On Science |
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I will feature books in this section that deal with general science issues, with energy, and with so-called alternative science topics, as well. If you can suggest other items that have been useful to you, please use my comment page to send me your suggestions. The items described below are linked from the official Amazon.com site and the prices listed are the normal prices generated by their system. My relationship to them is that I get a small percentage of the sale price when you follow one of my links into their site to purchase an item. There is no additional markup for the Amazon.com items which I feature.
| Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves, by B. Blake Levitt, gives an overview of how proliferating electromagnetic fields in our environment effect human health. I have this book in my personal library and I consider it a great introduction to the subject of electromagnetism and human health. The book has 448 pages and the average customer review is five stars out of five. One reviewer had the following comments about the book,"B. Blake Levitt's extraordinary commitment of time and effort has resulted in a work that makes this complex subject easy to understand. Not only has she succeeded in explaining the untoward health effects of EMFs, but she also gives her readers a look into the complex political and commercial forces that have led to our current state of affairs." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| Power to the People : How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet, by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, is an introduction to the controversy surrounding the coming crisis of energy generation on our planet. Vaitheeswaran is a proponent of hydrogen fuel cell technology, but his exploration of the economic, technical, and environmental issues that surround any approachs to solutions for our energy crisis will be useful to all. The book has 358 pages and the average customer review is four and a half stars out of five. A portion of the Scientific American review states the following,"Written for the intelligent layperson, Vaitheeswaran's book is by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available. Its title, Power to the People, might strike some at first as too cute or too presumptuous. By the time I finished the book, though, I thought the title was apt, and in more ways than one. One must hope that knowledge translates to power in the political sense and that the knowledge to the people conveyed here will help lead to the political outcomes needed to bring the book's optimistic vision into being." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements, by John Emsley, is a reference book that systematically looks at the properties and uses of each element but does it in an interesting and entertaining way. The book has 538 pages and the average customer review is four and a half stars out of five. One reviewer had the following comments about the book, "An incredibly informative, fun, and easy to read guide to the elements. Highly recommended to anyone in the physical sciences or anyone interested in learning about the history and usefulness of the elements." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| An Introduction to Cosmochemistry, by Charles R. Cowley, is an upper level college text that gives a systematic overview of the frequency with which the various forms of matter are found in the universe and the processes by which the various elemental building blocks of matter originate. The book has 490 pages and the average customer review is five stars out of five. One reviewer had the following comments about the book,"This is a book written by an astronomer who developed an interest in geology. It explains all about how astronomy, physics, chemistry and geology interact and why there should be interdisciplinary action on these subjects. If you are an astronomer with only a rudimentary understanding of geology and want to know how data from meteorites etc affect your work - it's superb. Likewise, if you are a chemist or a geologist and want to know about the relevence of your work in space studies - take a look. It's also remarkably cheap for a science book - so buy it now." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics: Fundamentals and Applications by Tom Markvart (Editor), Luis Castaner (Editor), is a hardcover 512 page handbook on the manufacture of solar cells and their use in system designs. A portion of the official description of the book states the following,"The Handbook covers the principles of solar cell function, the raw materials, photovoltaic systems, standards, calibration, testing, economics and case studies. The editors have assembled a cast of internationally-respected contributors from industry and academia. The report is essential reading for: Physicists, electronic engineers, designers of systems, installers, architects, policy-makers relating to photovoltaics." The book was published in December, 2003, by Elsevier Science Ltd. You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all available information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, by Robert Becker and Gary Selden, is a pioneering work on the role that electricity plays in the human body and in healing techniques. The book has 368 pages and the average customer review is five stars out of five. One reviewer has the following comments about the book,""The Body Electric" is a ground-breaking dissertation on human health as it relates to small electrical fields. Being a scientist, I was suspicious of the book's initial hypothesis, but I was later convinced by the overwhelming clinical data provided in the book. Very well written, easy to read, and extremely valuable. I highly recommend this book." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| The Secret Life of Plants, by Peter Tompkins, is a book about clinical experiments that seem to indicate that plants react to the emotional and mental states of people with their own emotional responses. I have a copy of this book in my library and I consider it a classic and essential text that everyone should read. The book has 416 pages and the average customer review is four out of five stars. One reviewer has the following comments about the book, "This book succeeded in shocking me into an awareness of our abuse of plant and soil resources, albeit in a tedious, statistical manner. The research presented is incredibly interesting. But the presentation itself is unwieldy, with seemingly endless lists of names and specialized scientific data. The greater message it carries outweighs it's cumbersome nature. Whether you have a doctorate in mechanical engineering or not, read it - you won't regret it." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy, by Olof Alexandersson, is an introduction to the work of Viktor Schauberger with the living natural energy of water. The book has 162 pages and the average customer review is four and one half out of five stars. One reviewer has the following comments about the book, "This is a good introduction to the theories and life of Viktor Schauberger, an Austrian naturalist and inventor. Born in 1885, Schauberger started life as a forester who tried to understand and copy Nature. From watching mountain streams he developed unorthodox theories based on vortex movement about water and its use. He started out designing highly efficient log flumes that used water in vortex motion and at its densest temperature of 4 degrees Centigrade. He then proposed cleaning up the Rhine River by rebuilding the natural curves which stimulate vortex motion in the water. He said that this vortex motion in the Earth caused spring water to be more alive than plain water. He believed that plants grew better in this living water and developed laboratory sized egg-shaped water energizers to activate water." You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| The Fertile Earth: Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry (The Eco-Technology Series, Volume 3), by Viktor Schauberger and Callum Coats, deals with Schauberger's discoveries regarding the preservation and enhancement of living energy in soil. You can click the linked image at left to purchase this book from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the book in the Amazon.com site. | |
| Sacred Living Geometry: The Enlightened Environmental Theories of Viktor Schauberger (1995), is a video of Callum Coats describing the life and inventions of Austrian ecologist Viktor Schauberger. You can click the linked image at left to purchase this video from Amazon.com right now, or you can follow this link to see all reviews and information about the video in the Amazon.com site. |
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