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Airport fiction blows. A look at books other engineers are reading and why you should read them, too. Recommend and write a review yourself. Email Naomi Price.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I just looked Zone One up on Amazon -- talk about mixed reviews -- but it does sound interesting so ...

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