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...surprisingly relevant) quotes from Shakespeare, and you've got a book that's both rigorous and comprehensible. Hard-core physics lovers will see it as a serious primer on most of the topics at the leading edge of modern physics and cosmology. But the rest of us can learn plenty about these seemingly daunting topics and have a lot of fun at the same time. --By Michael D. Lemonick
...television’s finest program. The book is no doubt part of that weird trend that has produced books like The Tao of Pooh, which attempts to show us how Taoism can be relevant to our own modern and western existence, and The Consolations of Philosophy, a primer on how thinkers like Montaigne and Seneca can be relevant to our everyday experiences...
...male fireflies if they're not suitable for mating)…The new Tennis Magazine cover story on Anna Kournikova is a wonderful history of a not-so-wonderful player. If you’re befuddled as to what all the fuss is about, get your Anna-tude primer ASAP…The single greatest procrastination site in the world–www.mediaunbound.com. Go and try the Audio-Insight demonstration. You put in your music tastes and they will process a 12-minute mix of all the songs they think you’ll like. It?...
...blind-dates-in-bondage series Chains of Love, you can expect to hear cries that TV has finally gone too far. (Again!) But reality-TV critics and fans alike fail to see that the shows are really tiny morality plays. Underneath the sleaze are sermons illustrating simple, school-primer virtues. You may watch for the bikinis and backstabbing, but everything you need to know about life you can learn from reality...
...Upside Down is only read by those who already look beyond the borders of their experiences, for Eduardo Galeano is trying to take the blinders from the eyes of a broader public, one whose wits have been addled by entertainment masquerading as news. Subtitled “a primer for the looking-glass world,” it is as redundant to the living-wage activist as The Stranger is to the inmate on death row; comforting, perhaps, but not terribly informative...