segunda-feira, 8 de dezembro de 2008

QUATRO LIVROS DE CIÊNCIA DO ANO SEGUNDO O NYT

Eis os quatro livros de ciências incluídas na lista de 100 livros do ano do "New York Times". Só o livro de Friedman está traduzido em Portugal:

DESCARTES’ BONES: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason.
By Russell Shorto. (Doubleday, $26.) Shorto’s smart, elegant study turns the early separation of Descartes’s skull from the rest of his remains into an irresistible metaphor.

THE DRUNKARD’S WALK: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. By Leonard Mlodinow. (Pantheon, $24.95.) This breezy crash course intersperses probabilistic mind-benders with profiles of theorists.

HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America. By Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95.) The Times columnist turns his attention to possible business-friendly solutions to global warming.

THE SUPERORGANISM: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies. By Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson. (Norton, $55.) The central conceit of this astonishing study is that an insect colony is a single animal raised to a higher level.

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