{"id":581,"date":"2006-09-08T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/08\/too-many-science-books\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T08:53:59","slug":"too-many-science-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/08\/too-many-science-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Science Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of this corporate blogging gig is that it&#8217;s put me on the radar of book publishers, who have started sending me free stuff. We like free stuff, here at Chateau Steelypips, and we like books, so that&#8217;s a Good Thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s becoming almost too much of a Good Thing, though&#8211; In the past week or so, I&#8217;ve received:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Not Even Wrong<\/cite> by Peter Woit (thank you, Peter), which I finished last night (review forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Republican War on Science<\/cite> by Chris Mooney, in the spiffy new paperback edition.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Revenge of Gaia<\/cite> by James Lovelock (thrown in with tRWoS by the publisher).<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Trouble With Physics<\/cite> by Lee Smolin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s more science books showing up in one week than I usually read in a year&#8230;  I also feel like I ought to go read some pro-string-theory book (recommendations for anything other than Susskind&#8217;s Landscape thing are welcome in the comments), just to maintain a little balance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of this corporate blogging gig is that it&#8217;s put me on the radar of book publishers, who have started sending me free stuff. We like free stuff, here at Chateau Steelypips, and we like books, so that&#8217;s a Good Thing. It&#8217;s becoming almost too much of a Good Thing, though&#8211; In&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/08\/too-many-science-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too Many Science Books?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-physics","category-science","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}