How do you prepare for a highly effective scientific career beyond formal graduate education? A PhD is not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science is a short book written by career physicist Peter Feibelman providing analysis of real scientific careers that flourished or floundered. Advice ranges from selecting a thesis adviser to preparing a …
Who knows what gods walk among us today? American Gods is a standalone science fiction novel, set in modern day with influences from an ancient time. Old meets new and the war is waged for the soul of America. Synopsis Old gods fight for survival, new gods seek to snuff them out. Join Shadow, a reticent …
This book provides a much needed discussion into an area much overlooked for its painfulness: shame. Brené Brown is a researcher at the University of Houston with an emphasis on social and psychological implications of vulnerability. I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t) is one of her many books describing her findings in …
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Want to learn some candle tricks to impress your family over the holiday tables? The Chemical History of a Candle is a transcript (depending on the edition, heavily modified by colleagues and chemists to purvey the phenomena to the best of written word's ability) is a collection of six lectures given by Michael Faraday over holiday …
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Disclaimer: I'm a sucker for Norse mythology. Synopsis Norse Mythology is a collection of short myths retold by Neil Gaiman. With many of Gaiman's books heavily influenced by the Norse mythology he read and re-read in his childhood, he took it upon himself to collect a sampling of the stories into a cohesive sequence. Read …
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The Dragon's Den 