Title: Turing (A Novel about Computation)
Author: Christos H. Papadimitriou
Paperback: 283 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (April 1, 2005)
ISBN: 0262661918

I saw this book on a table at a Borders and I wanted a book to take traveling, so I decided to try it. I’m glad I did!
This is a very nice novel. It weaves mathematics, [...]

Title: What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
Author: Kenneth R. Feinberg
Hardcover: 213 pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs (May 13, 2005)
ISBN: 1586483234

This is a must read book! I had two books left on my vacation, and decided to grab this one for the flight home. I read it in about three [...]

Title: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (April, 1998)
ISBN: 0465024114

This book was disappointing. There was a lot of raw information about flow (that state where you loose sense of time and become completely focused on achieving some goal), and especially how often most [...]