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This is the first-ever biography of the irresistible domestic goddess, Nigella Lawson. Born in 1960 into a family of privelege, this book covers her childhood, her early career at the Sunday Times and Spectator, her secret marriage to John Diamond, the loss of her sister and husband to cancer-both at early ages, and her tremendous success as the author of How to be a Domestic Goddess and host of Nigella Bites. This is a story of personal tragedy and public success, studded with a cast of celebrity friends and family. With her unashamed enjoyment for food and her curvy beauty, Nigella continues to fascinate and beguile.
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Too much: He said, She said.......2007-10-04
Beyond the odd cooking appearance I never really knew much about Nigella Lawson so I was intrigued when I heard about Gilly Smith's biography. Smith has sorted through video footage, food columns, fashion articles, cookbooks and reviews to organize information about the cooking diva and her life.
The biography is divided into seventeen chapters and includes background on where Nigella grew up, her boarding school experience, her posh parents, her marriage to John Diamond (an award-winning broadcast journalist) and their children. Her career is highlighted from her early journalist days to her television shows and books; as well as her slow decline in popularity in the UK and her sudden birth of popularity in the U.S. Ending around 2005.
This biography was difficult to get into initially because it is delivered from a UK perspective with a lot of name dropping that means nothing to anyone over here not in the journalist or food business. The constant referencing slows things down and is really quite boring. I enjoyed getting to know Nigella but most of what I read was quoted or said by someone else and I felt throughout like I was missing something. Even the black and white pictures seemed to be from old stock footage, nothing personal.
A very different picture is painted of the Nigella her fans know and love. Despite this, Nigella comes across as a woman inspired by the intricacies of food with a compelling need to share them with whoever will read, watch and listen. She's easy to fall in love with.
I was looking forward to this glimpse into Nigella's life but was disappointed by the author's interpretation through columns, articles, interviews, cookbooks and videos. I did learn a lot about Nigella. But I think Nigella, a journalist in her own right, could have done a better job. Reviewed by M. E. Wood.
A lot of words, but little substance.......2007-07-18
This book is just. . .hollow. It's clear that the writer either couldn't or didn't get any interview time with Nigella herself. It offers endless quotes pulled from articles about Nigella that have been published elsewhere, and lots of hearsay and opinions of people clearly outside her inner circle. And from a purely structural standpoint, it's just flat-out wordy as hell. I wish I could get paid as well as this author probably did for just cutting-and-pasting from other people's work!
Worthless and frustrating biography.......2006-07-26
I completely agree with the other review posted here. The book is mainly made up of quotes from Nigella's columns and other references with very little narrative. There's no real focus or direction, and most of the information is completely useless. Another frustrating element is the photo section. Why in the world do readers need to see three photos of Nigel Lawson and his second wife and children? The book hardly touches on them, and I would have rather seen some more photos of Nigella.
Definitely skip this book. Maybe someday something worthwhile will be written about this extraordinary woman.
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Renowned historian Daniel J. Boorstin completes the trilogy he began with The Discoverers and The Creators. The first volume covered explorers, scientists, and historians in their quest for raw knowledge, while the second book describes writers, painters, and composers in their pursuit of inspiring art; The Seekers describes people searching for an understanding of human existence--"Man is the asking animal," notes Boorstin. It's a big, bold theme, and although The Seekers is the shortest work in the trilogy, it's still vintage Boorstin: incredibly learned, richly anecdotal, and casually profound. It begins with the prophets of the Holy Land and the philosophers of ancient Greece, continues through the Renaissance, and concludes with the modern era of the social sciences. "In this long quest [for understanding], Western culture has turned from seeking the end or purpose to seeking causes--from the Why to the How," writes Boorstin. That's a neat summary of Western intellectual development over several thousand years. What other author could put it so succinctly? Boorstin is generally stronger with material that is more recent and more secular, but this is an accomplished book and a worthy capstone to an outstanding three-volume effort. --John J. Miller
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of
The Discoverers and
The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?"
Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning.
Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.
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Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here? The Seekers in history of our great Western heritage of ideas, told through the lives of the speakers who still speak to us: from Moses and Aristotle and Plato through Thucydides, Thomas Moore, Machiavelli, and Voltaire to Karl Marx, Carlyle, Emerson, and Einstein -- to mention only a few.
Daniel Boorstin once again shows that his ability to present challenging ideas, coupled with sharp portraits of great writers and thinkers, remains unparalleled.
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OH.......2007-06-01
The Seekers by Daniel J. Boorstin
`The story of Man's Counting Quest to Understand His World'
We all have this question, who am I? Where am I? What is the world? We use our eyes to see the world, we use our mind to observe the world, and try to find the meaning of life. Generation to generation, our ancient give us some ways to get closer the wisdom. This book `the seekers' is a story of civilization. Other than seriously academic research, Daniel introduces you an easy and funny story to approach the history of the world. The seekers on their days lead the world progress. They think deeply how to make the world better. The special part of `the seeker' is Daniel tell you lots of interesting episode about the seekers. The book just give you a brief introduce about the seekers and their books. That's not enough. I write down a booklist. I hope I understand them more advanced.
OH.......2007-06-01
The Seekers by Daniel J. Boorstin
`The story of Man's Counting Quest to Understand His World'
We all have this question, who am I? Where am I? What is the world? We use our eyes to see the world, we use our mind to observe the world, and try to find the meaning of life. Generation to generation, our ancient give us some ways to get closer the wisdom. This book `the seekers' is a story of civilization. Other than seriously academic research, Daniel introduces you an easy and funny story to approach the history of the world. The seekers on their days lead the world progress. They think deeply how to make the world better. The special part of `the seeker' is Daniel tell you lots of interesting episode about the seekers. The book just give you a brief introduce about the seekers and their books. That's not enough. I write down a booklist. I hope I understand them more advanced.
Not About seeking the meaning of life .......2006-09-22
I thought this book would lend insight into humanity's quest to understand the meaning of life but it doesn't do this. There are some tiny allusions to this but for the most part the book is about some of the larger figures in history (from Socrates to Kant)and how their search for meaning in their lives had an impact on the flow of civilization.
One interesting insight that is shown but never said is how each person was driven to his view of our world based on what situation the world was currently in and what he did to bring about change in the world. It gives a sense of malleability to what life is all about. It almost says that life is about whatever is going on right now. I was hoping for an insight into an underlying truth to it all but there was none and none of the figures portrayed in the book even hinted at trying to find one.
The Basic premise of the book is about the cultural changes we have made over the centuries from God Fearing, to self examination, to simple living, the growth of science as a belief system, and so on.
Overall an interesting read but it is a history through short bios of a variety of people and an interesting analysis of how general thought has changed over time. If you are a seeker yourself you will get little insight here.
Seeking the Elusive Makes A Grand Hunt.......2004-01-19
Boorstin's third book of his trilogy follows a chronological format on man's search for the reasons of life. "We are all seekers," he writes. "We all want to know why."
The book follows three grand epics of seeking. The first begins with Hebrew prophets and Greek philosophers. The former seeking from a higher authority, and the latter seeking from within. He moves on to the formation of communal experiences of the early church and the Reformation. The last epic is the age of the social sciences. Many stories of many exceptional men are told: their complexities, their understanding of past seekers, and their mistakes made mostly due to being ruled by history.
From the prophets and matchless Grecian trilogy seeking understanding of man's place; to Thomas Moore and Machiavelli pursuing the civil, liberal spirit; to Marx, Spengler, Emerson and Einstein who hone in on their own specialized areas of seeking, The Seekers captures the meaning of its namesake: the ever-elusive definition of life.
If the book has a short-coming, it would be Boorstin's inability to retrieve and contain the many more Seekers of modern thought. However, to include modern-day theorists, philosophers and other seekers would add chapters, getting us nowhere closer to our most coveted definition.
The journey is the reward.......2003-07-04
Boorstin is a master story teller. I felt like I was sitting with a friend by a comfortable fire, being challenged to think, but regularly regaled with irony, satire and laughter. The motto of the book might be "The road is always better than the end." Another theme is that seeking brings us together, that fulfills us. The people who think they have found the final answer are the menace to our humanity, because there is no answer to find. Of course, this is the puzzle. How can one maintain their interest in 'seeking' if they realize the danger of 'finding'? Boorstin doesn't provide simple answers.
Boorstin starts with the Biblical conversations with God recorded by the Jewish tradition. To summarize these discussion, Boorstin spends a fair amount of time with the story of Job and the omnipresent fact that bad things happen to innocent people. He concludes that the ancient Hebrews taught their children that no one knows what God knows, so the innocent must push on, must keep the faith.
With this said, he poses the same question (do you know what God knows?) to the Greek tradition, starting with Socrates. Socrates became famous for demonstrating much the same point, interviewing those who claim to know truth, then proving their knowledge was an illusion. Plato, Socrates admirer and evangelist, tried to answer Socrates with his utopian Republic. In Plato's view, no one but philosophers knew the 'truth.' Showing no respect for his elders, Aristotle, a student of Socrates and Plato, chose something of a middle road: scientists know a few things that are true. In this triad of forceful personalities, the rest of the book finds it's structure.
Following Gibbon's outline of history, Boorstin then builds a bridge (Part II) between the ancient and modern world, quickly reviewing 1000 years of dialog between empiricists (the scientists who know at least one thing) and fundamentalists (those that know what God knows). This bridge involves Greek, then Christian evangelists, scholars and reformers until about 1500, when Hobbes, St. Thomas More and Descartes renew the Socratic debate.
Boorstin makes a case for the pivotal role Descartes plays, bridging the intuition and empiricist in his famous 'I think therefore I [know I] exist'. Descartes is followed by the evangelists of this synthesis: Voltaire (the civilized know) and Rousseau (the uncivilized know). The section on Rousseau is hilarious and well worth the price of the book (The section on Kirkegaard is equally funny.)
Avoiding the temptation to side with any particular advocate, Part III describes a variety of utopian enthusiasts. For a while, I thought the title should have been the 'utopians'. In these utopias, the old question about "God allowing bad thing to happen to innocent people" is solved by banishing suffering. In Utopia, society is so perfected that nothing can upset the universal joy. The luminaries for this post 1800 era include Marx (historians know how to accomplish this), Kierkegaard (we will regret knowing), Lord Acton (joy through revolutionary discontinuities) and William James (knowledge is a river, impossible to divide). The last three personalities Boorstin mentions, Malraux, Bergson and Einstein seem to be Boorstin's personal favorites. They were all active during and after World War I & II and probably had an impact on his life. Only Voltaire gets similar approval.
Boorstin's favorable review of materialists like Voltaire, Marx and Malraux was a bit hard to swallow.. . He ignores the Scottish Enlightenment and Hume, where his hero Voltaire got the ideas which made him famous. Additionally, he tersely dismisses the contributions of Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and Confucian philosophers, all of whom greatly enriched Europe. It would have been better to ignore the subject. But, the story telling is wonderful. Maybe a logical 'whole' isn't all that important.
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Take it easy: that's Michio Kaku's motto. Given the extraordinary advances science has thrown up in time for the millennium, the only way you could possibly fit them into a single volume is by a correspondingly massive simplification.
Subtitled How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond, Visions assumes that, by and large, scientists get to do whatever they like, that all technologies are consumer technologies, and that consumers welcome anything and everything science throws at them. Kaku gets away with this frankly dodgy strategy by dint of sheer hard work. He has based his predictions on interviews with more than 150 renowned working scientists; he integrates these interviews with a huge body of original journalistic material; and, above all, he roots that mass of information on an entirely reasonable model of what the purpose of science will be in the third millennium. Up until now, science has expended its efforts on decoding most of the fundamental natural processes--"the dance," as Kaku puts it, of elementary particles deep inside stars and the rhythms of DNA molecules coiling and uncoiling within our bodies. Science's task now, Kaku believes, is to cross-pollinate advances thrown up by the study of matter, biology, and mind--modern science's three main theaters of endeavor. "We are now making the transition from amateur chess players to grand masters," he writes, "from observers to choreographers of nature." Then again, he also believes that "the Internet ... will eventually become a 'Magic Mirror' that appears in fairy tales, able to speak with the wisdom of the human race." Kaku, in short, deserves a good slapping--but he also deserves to be read. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk
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In Visions, physicist and author Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have dramatically reshaped the twentieth century--the quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence--and shows how they will change and alter science and the way we live.
The next century will witness more far-reaching scientific revolutions, as we make the transition from unraveling the secrets of nature to becoming masters of nature. We will no longer be passive bystanders to the dance of the universe, but will become creative choreographers of matter, life, and intelligence.
The first section of Visions presents a shocking look at a cyber-world infiltrated by millions of tiny intelligence systems. Part two illustrates how the decoding of DNA's genetic structure will allow humans the "godlike ability to manipulate life almost at will." Finally, VISIONS focuses on the future of quantum physics, in which physicists will perfect new ways to manipulate matter and harness the cosmic energy of the universe.
What makes Michio Kaku's vision of the science of the future so compelling--and so different from the mere forecasts of most thinkers--is that it is based on the groundbreaking research taking place in labs today, as well as the consensus of over 150 of Kaku's scientific colleagues. Science, for all its breathtaking change, evolves slowly; we can accurately predict, asserts Kaku, what the direction of science will be, based on the paths that are being forged today.
A thrilling, unique narrative that brings together the thinking of many of the world's most accomplished scientists to explore the world of the future, Visions is science writing at its best.
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A Letdown.......2007-06-20
After reading Hyperspace I wanted more from Michio Kaku, and this was not it. Yes, it was from Kaku, but it was nothing like Hyperspace. This book is mostly just a series of predictions about the future, most of which are wild speculation, even though the basic physics behind them is solid. If that's what you're looking fro, you've found it. However, don't expect to be overly impressed. Read one of Kaku's other books... they have SO MUCH more to offer.
A convincing extrapolation of science, technology and computers in the future.......2007-05-12
This was the first book I had read in this genre of "Scientific postulation or progressive hypothesis" (I choose to not call it prediction, a word which feels more akin to soothsayers fortelling seeing crystal ball or like Nostradamus). I was simply blown away with the wealth of material presented in this book that too in such a way that neither does the author spend too less time on a certain topic nor a great deal and thankfully he does not go into any equations. The technical jargon when used is explained. This is the perfect book for a layman who loves thinking about what would the future looks like. The books is divided into 3 revolutions. The computer, biomolecular and quantum revolution.
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Xray Lasers
Nanotechnology, self replicating nanobots
Fusion reactors for power generation
Interstellar travel - warp drives, Worm hole generators
Black holes
Hover cars
Type I,II and III advanced civiizations - What would they look like, how advanced would their technology be
Time travel
Travelling below the speed of light
Solar and Extrasolar colonization.
Terraforming mars.
Space colonies on asteriods. Colonizing other galaxies.
Superstring theorg - The unified theory which unifies the electromagnetic, gravitations, and the strong nuclear and the weak nuclear forces.
cancer cure
Gene therapy...
(For a good book on string theory read "Elegant universe" by Brian Greene)
...and many more.
(As per the author What is not possible with the known physics)
- Invisiblity, force fields, "Beam me up scotty" - Teleportation devices.
Pls note thought that some of the information in teh book is dated as it was written in 1998. So many of the predictions have already come true or many of the expected dates for scientific projects got postponed for eg the nasa shuttle launch dates, the International space station proposed dates. The author obviously did not know back then that The shutdown of the shuttleprogram will take place due to the discovery mishap or another one is a sentence attributing enron as a legit company as the author was not aware of what was to come. Glitches which possible annoy you with respect to the present but this is not a drawback since it was written before all these incidents.
The books is filled with such kernel ideas that hit you like shrapnel. This offcourse is not one man's writing. The author is simply assimilating the thoughts of various scientists (over 150 it seems as in the preface the author informs that he had the oppurtunity to have intervies with them). The author borrows from different books as is only natural in a book with such a grand scope in that all the sciences have to be covered. The bibliography shows what an extensive research was made. The bibliography shows sentences which have been used by the author to be attributed to certain scientific papers, journals, conversations with scienties, or books of other reputed popular science writers, scientists alike. I loved every page and it is one of those rare books which is totally non fiction and dealing with such a formidable scientific subject matter but is so beautifully explained for the layman that it reads as fast a paperback John Grisham novel. Books of this kind normally are difficult to sustain interest in a reader atleast in terms of being able to actually finish in a sitting or 2 like you would do would with say a Michael Connelly paperback. But this book does it. Infact its the kind of book that has so much going on it that a lot of enjoyment can be attained by doing multiple rereads. Infact a paper back book would not really be considered to be a reference book, but I would rather keep this book on my shelf to read and re-read certain sections or may be read the whole book again at a latter time. I would buy this book again if the author came out with a revised edition to correct out and bring the book up to date.
(Other 2 fantastic books by Michio Kaku)
- Parallel worlds - The Science of alternative universes and our future in the cosmos
- Hyperspace.
regards, Vikram
Good stuff!.......2007-05-04
Very good book for those who seek how will technology be within the next decades. The future is being created now in the laboratories of big corporations and universities. These creations are shaping the world of the future, life will become much easier and mankind will take benefit of advancements in computer science, medicine and material mechanics. We already see some of these new approaches coming in such as the new plastic chip to replace silicon, a composite material for aircrafts instead of using aluminium hulls, development of super drugs to struggle against cancer and AIDS, and the list goes on. Good stuff for those who love technology.
An intensely researched and knowledgeable yet uncritical set of predictions about the future .......2006-03-07
Kaku really does his work. He interviews not simply one or two but the major experts in all areas he considers. His predictions on a wide variety of subjects are detailed, and apparently 'sensible'.
He himself is a physicist of great reputation. The first section of the work covers the cyber future, in which he believes that millions of microprocessors will be everywhere in the environment. There will be new technologies when Moore's law collapses. DNA and quantum computers as well as artifical intelligences are part of the future he sees.
In the second section of the work he speaks of how the decoding of DNA will enable us to shape our medical and genetic futures.
He believes many diseases such as cancer will be eliminated, and new medicines emerge which will enable us to conquer aging.
In the third section he predicts that research in quantum physics will yield discoveries that will provide incredible sources of energy including those which will power us in great expeditions to the stars.
It is difficult for me to know how to evaluate the credibility of specific predictions though I am more than a little skeptical about those which seem to suggest a total control of environment and destiny.
The work's tone disturbs me in its largely uncritical acceptance of all future developments being worked on.
This very much connects with a sense that the human dimension and implication is not felt deeply enough.
Nonetheless again the book is a richly informed one filled with interesting ideas regarding what the human future might be.
Biological neurosynapic networks.......2005-12-29
Quantum Machine:
David Deutch (Qubit Field Theory)
Julian Brown (Minds, Machines and the Multiverse)
Seth Loyd (A Shortcut Through Time : The Path to the Quantum Computer)
Jeff Kimble (Quantum networks with atomic ensembles, Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics )
David Wineland (Quantum Computation and Shor's Factoring Algorithm, Quantum Physics and Computers)
Chris Monroe(Ion Trap in a Semiconductor Chip, Near-Perfect
Simultaneous Measurement of a Qubit Register, Implementation of Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm in a Scalable System, Precision Lifetime Measurement of a Single Trapped Ion with Ultrafast Laser Pulses)
Marvin Minsky (Why People Think Computers Can't, Matter, Mind and Models, Symbolic vs. Connectionist, Framework for Representing Knowledge, Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence)
Thinking Machines:
De Garis (CAM-Brain Machine will be able to update Computer Automata cells at a 100 of billons per second and change the state of the neural net within seconds.)
Stanford Ovshinsky (The Ovonic Cognitive Computer achieves the requirement of plasticity. Plasticity is encoded energy. Plasticity is the ability for a system to adapt in response to incoming energy signals. Ovshinsky has demonstrated that electrical and optical cognitive computing is possible. Ovonic optical and electrical phase change memories are devices composed of tellurium, germanium, and antimony and when exposed to optical or electrical energy change states from crystalline to amorphous or amorphous to crystalline.
Jolts of electricity switch chalcogenide patch between a orderly crystaline form and a more disordered, amorphous one. A lower energy warms the atoms of the amorphous state just enough so that they can rearrange themselves back into an orderly lattice. The amorphous state absorbs light and the crystalline state reflects and devices can distinquish between bits as 1s or 0s.
Ovonic devices within a network are adaptive and can be configured to function as weighting devices used to control the interconnection strength between the Ovonic devices. Thus, the Ovonic device is capable of synaptic function such as receiving and weighting multiple inputs that result in threshold activation. Activation is an operation mode that accumulates energy until a certain energy level is achieved and once reached the Ovonic device transforms from a high resistant state to a low resistant state mimicking the firing of a neuron. The Ovonic devices weighting can be controlled. The devices are small, operate at room temperature, possible of 2D and 3D device parallelism, and able to process and store information in a reconfigurational nonvolatile manner alleviating the need to separate memory and logic functions of a computer. Ovinshinsky suggests his networks are analogous to the quantum computer. Hard to believe since a quantum computer, if possible to build, is infinite solutions simulanteous. The biggest problem would be extraction from the solution set, since it is infinite.)
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physics for the layman.......2005-08-18
My introduction to Mickio Kaku came when he was a guest speaker at a conference I attended. My first thought was "a physicist? Yawn!" But what a speaker he is! I left feeling that I had a rudimentary understanding of string theory. In fact, not just understanding but excited about it. Quite an accomplishment for someone not versed in science at all. I would recommend his books for the layman. This is physics not only on an understandable level, but an entertaining one. His "vision" of what is coming within my lifetime is fascinating and opens up a world of possibilities.
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