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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
3.0
I thought the list of questions (new question every few pages) were excellent. The individual answers were by experts in that field. But you just can't "tweet" answers to these huge questions. Each of these topics deserves an entire book.
The questions were not arranged in a logical order in the book.
The 'answers' felt like someone who had written books on this topic was asked to summarize their assigned topic all on a piece of notebook paper during lunchtime.
I did not come close to finishing this. My recommendation is to use this book as a bibliography/primer, then go and find the real FULL book(s) on these complex topics and read them in their entirety.
The questions were not arranged in a logical order in the book.
The 'answers' felt like someone who had written books on this topic was asked to summarize their assigned topic all on a piece of notebook paper during lunchtime.
I did not come close to finishing this. My recommendation is to use this book as a bibliography/primer, then go and find the real FULL book(s) on these complex topics and read them in their entirety.