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Old 10-16-2010, 08:37 PM   #6787
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I'm now just past halfway through Stephen Hawking's "The Theory of Everything". Not sure which one to read next. I still have two more Hawking books bought and loaded into my Kindle (plus one pbook). Although I may have to read something lighter inbetween. Perhaps a Jeremy Clarkson or two coming up next.
I've got that one in my To-Be-Read folder, but there are several ahead of it. Right now I'm reading What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) edited by Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg. At $46.36, it's the most expensive ebook I've ever bought. It's very technical, extremely dry, and consists of scientific papers detailing experiments into how emotions register as facial expressions, and quite frankly not at all what I was hoping for, but since I paid $46.36, I'm going to finish it if it kills me.

The other scientific book I'm currently reading is The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing compiled and edited by Richard Dawkins. This is much more enjoyable and contains essays and excerpts from people such as J.B.S. Haldrane, Fred Hoyle, Stephen Pinker, E.O. Wilson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Leakey, Stephen Jay Gould, Julian Huxley, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Erwin Schrödinger, Daniel Dennett, Martin Gardner, Alan Turing, Paul Davies, Brian Green, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, David Deutsch, and many others. The bad news is that this one isn't availiable as an ebook. I've hit the "Tell the Publisher" button on the Amazon page. Maybe if 10,000 other people do the same, Oxford Press will get the message.

Another book ahead of the latest from Hawking is The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin. Hopefully this will contain examples of the kind I had hoped to find in What the Face Reveals.
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