Zoom : How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees

from Ma_Washigeri

Plus 3/4 star for amount of work this must have been - and less 1/4 star for presentation. It is very interesting but a bit haphazard. I actually enjoyed the notes in some ways best of all. And the mix of Km and Miles seemed a bit annoying and artificial but he does explain that it is an american...

from Ma_Washigeri

Plus 3/4 star for amount of work this must have been - and less 1/4 star for presentation. It is very interesting but a bit haphazard. I actually enjoyed the notes in some ways best of all. And the mix of Km and Miles seemed a bit annoying and artificial but he does explain that it is an american...

from MartinBodek

Supremely fun, and wildly educational book that feels like it teaches you, on average, a new fact per paragraph. The reading is swift (a perfect irony), the writer is filled with good humor, and the book covers everything, from universe-big to quark-small with verve and passion. It was so engross...

from VGAHarris

You can zoom through this quite quickly. It has a number of entertaining stories about natural phenomena, couched in terms that make them intelligible and pertinent to our daily lives.

from TeaTimeCoder

Like Bill Bryson but more American. Tries hard to write witty asides but quips about teenagers not wanting to do house chores and wives not understand nor being interested in science are about as funny as as the author's tenuous grip on science - not very and instead really disappointing.