= Books Noted =

 * QE 514.D47  1988  '''Chemical Cycles in the Evolution of the Earth'''

 * QE 514.F75  2011  '''Frontiers in Geochemistry'''

 * QH 327.F548 2008  '''Fitness of the Cosmos For Life'''
 . This is about tuning of universal constants, for the chemistry of life.  Nothing significant about our particular planet, star, or solar system.

 * YA 510 PASK 2015 '''Great Calculations''' by Colin Pask
 . Amusing but time consuming.

 * 301.31 VAI 2013 '''Triumphs of Experience''' by George E. Vaillant
 . Mildly interesting - how Harvard graduates have faired in life, multiple lifetime study

 * 363.3251 MUE 2016 '''Chasing Ghosts''' by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart
 . The security state is far more costly, damaging, and distracting than terrorist damage

 * 153.4 HAR 2012 '''50 popular beliefs that people think are true''' by Guy P. Harrison
 . Dumb things people think when they don't think - #19 Television news is interesting, much of the rest is "television noise".  No "tough" questions involving character

 * 509.173 PRI 2011 '''A Professor, a President, and a Meteor''' The Birth of American Science,  by Cathryn J. Prince (CJP)
 . Benjamin Silliman investigates Weston Connecticut Meteor of 1807, promotes science (chemistry and geology) at Yale, launches "The American Journal of Science"
 . p63 CJP quotes chemist Jabir ibn Hayyan: "... conduct experiments ... mayest acquire knowledge"  see HouseOfWisdom
 . p195 CJP paraphrases Flight to Arras, 1942 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "you are the knot into which my soul is tied."
  . actual '''Flight to Arras''' quotes, 1942 Reynal and Hitchcock hardback, Beaverton Library 940.54 SAI: 
  . p105 chapter 12, paragraph 5: "... Man is a knot into which relationships are tied, ..."
  . p183 chapter 19, paragraph ~~ 25: "Man does not die. ... Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied."
  . I like Prince's paraphrase better

 * 946.02 MEN 2002 '''The Ornament of the World''' How Muslims,Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by María Rosa Menocal
 . some history, mostly art, little science  Umayyad Abd-al-Rahman 750 to destruction by fundamentalist Almoravid Berber mercenaries in 1009

 * 530.11 C877w 2009 '''Why does E=mc2''' by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.  Clearly explains special relativity, with just enough math to quantify results like the mass-energy equation.

 * 620 Madhavan 2015 [[ http://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=1 | Applied Minds]] - how engineers think, by Guru Madhavan. 

 * 005.7 H2829b 2016 '''Big Data''' - Does Size Matter? by Timandra Harkness.  Jokey journalism, no analysis, no economics.  My question going in - who pays (NSA? Sears?) for the apps we use, and what is it costing us (money, freedom, cognitive depth)?  No answers here.

 * QC168.V55 1975 '''Introduction to Physical Gas Dnamics''' by Walter Vincenti and Charles Kruger Jr. (Stanford) ... more physics and fundamentals, good for deep understanding but not quick approximations.