Engineer’s Bookshelf
Book Review: Empower Your Inner Manager by Ian Mackintosh
Clive Maxfield
9/21/2012 3:43 PM EDT
if you want to be a manager – or if you are already a manager – I would really appreciate it if you would read this book.
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"The Man Who Loved China" by Simon Winchester
Aubrey Kagan
5/23/2012 2:54 PM EDT
Joseph Needham credited the Chinese for inventing far more than just paper, ice cream and gunpowder.
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I’m going to walk across America!
Clive Maxfield
5/21/2012 4:51 PM EDT
I’ve decided to walk from Central Park in New York to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco (metaphorically speaking).
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Earl54
There should be a huge (umm, pun partly intended) market for this, but I'm afraid after a short time ...
It looks unappealing and it smells appalling, but…
Clive Maxfield
5/18/2012 2:13 PM EDT
I note that people seem to be giving my office a wide berth as they pass by my door.
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David Ashton
I should have figured that one out. You remind me of the older George Bush: "I do not like ...
Book Review: "The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes
Aubrey Kagan
5/16/2012 2:47 PM EDT
"How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science"
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Max the Magnificent
Hi Aubrey -- thanks for a great review -- you beat me to it -- I read this book last yea rbut never ...
Book Review: Shakespeare – The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Clive Maxfield
5/16/2012 2:43 PM EDT
This is an interesting and informative book that had me rolling on the floor laughing…
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Bellhop
It's the one biography of Shakespeare to read if you're reading only one! I like the way that he ...
Book Review: "Degrees Kelvin" by David Lindley
Aubrey Kagan
5/8/2012 3:37 PM EDT
Before reading this book, I had not realised what an affect Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) had had on my world today as an electrical engineer.
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antedeluvian
The link to Max's column is wrong. It should ...
Book Review: In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart
Clive Maxfield
5/2/2012 3:06 PM EDT
I just finished "Pursuit of the Unknown – 17 Equations That Changed the World," and I have to say that this was a jolly good read.
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Bellhop
RE: 12 note musical scale. You can indeed play in any key and have it sound the same because we use ...
Book Review: "The Flyers (In Search Of Wilbur & Orville Wright)" by Noah Adams
Aubrey Kagan
4/30/2012 2:33 PM EDT
I've been fascinated by flight since age seven when I saw a statue of the Wright brothers in the main concourse at Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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antedeluvian
I also remember when Douglas Bader came to lecture at our school.
Book Review: The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Clive Maxfield
4/25/2012 10:11 AM EDT
This is like no other Zombie book I ever read.The ending was completely unexpected and left me gasping.
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Max the Magnificent
I just looked Zone One up on Amazon -- talk about mixed reviews -- but it does sound interesting so ...