The official release date for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is exactly four weeks from today. So here’s a dramatic reading of Chapter 3 to mark the occasion: I’ve put this up before, but I edited it to remove the URL, which was apparently a deal-breaker for booksellers. And yes, I will post… Continue reading Book Countdown: T Minus 4 Weeks
Category: Physics Books
Judging a Book’s Cover
The pictures I posted last night aren’t really the greatest for seeing the cover of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, so here’s a shot of the book jacket spread out on my desk: This isn’t the greatest, either, but it does give you a sense of the key features of the jacket design,… Continue reading Judging a Book’s Cover
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is a Real Book!
Look! How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is a real book: Emmy says, very seriously, “You will buy a copy, won’t you?” Of course, like everything else in this house, SteelyKid had to grab a copy:
I Can Haz Books!
It’s not often that I regret having a cell phone that is just a phone, but this is one of those occasions– I stopped by my publisher today to talk about marketing and publicity, and record a video for the web, and got a stack of finished copies of the book, hot off the presses.… Continue reading I Can Haz Books!
DonorsChoose Payoff: Duality and Self-Promotion
We’re six days into the DonorsChoose challenge, and at the time of this writing, ten people have contributed just over $1,700 to the Uncertain Principles challenge entry. That’s an impressive average, and I thank you all for your generosity. I also offered a number of incentives, and Lauren Uroff is claiming one: I’d like to… Continue reading DonorsChoose Payoff: Duality and Self-Promotion
Publishers Weekly on How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
In this week’s issue of Publishers Weekly there’s a short review (scroll down) of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (which will be released December 22): How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Chad Orzel. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7228-2 What do dog treats and chasing squirrels have to do with quantum mechanics? Much… Continue reading Publishers Weekly on How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
There has been a fair amount of discussion of Graham Farmelo’s The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom— Peter Woit reviewed it on his blog, the New York Times reviewed it a couple of Sundays ago, Barnes and Noble’s online review did a piece on it, etc.. Nearly all… Continue reading The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
Early Review of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
One of the photo caption contest winners, Nick O’Neill, has finished his galley proof, and posted an early review of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Casual physics intro books are quite possibly the hardest subgenre of physics books to write. Textbooks and further upper-level reading have expectations both of what you already know… Continue reading Early Review of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
Book Report: Blurb-tastic
A cosmologist, a science writer, three best-selling science fiction authors, a best-selling mystery novelist, and a Nobel laureate walk into a bar– Oh, wait, that’s not the opening to a joke. That’s the list of people who have provided blurbs for my book… Kind of an eclectic bunch, but I’m pretty psyched. I’m not quite… Continue reading Book Report: Blurb-tastic
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Poetry Contest
There once was a dog from Niskayuna… The previous post announced a photo caption contest for a chance to win an advance proof copy of my book, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, six(-ish) months before it’s available for purchase. I thought I should include something for the less visually inclined, though, and I… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Poetry Contest