I’ve had these book review links in my queue for weeks and finally posting them. I’m reading several books for review myself and will try to say something about them soon.
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Anatoly Zak, who runs the RussianSpaceWeb.com website, has a book out on the Russian space program and industry and its getting good reviews:
- Book Review: Russia in Space – The Past Explained, The Future Explored – Coalition for Space Exploration
- Review: Russia in Space – The Space Review
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Jeff Foust writes about a new autobiography of Stephen Hawking : Review: My Brief History – The Space Review
My Brief History is not just a play on words, but an accurate description: it is a short (less than 150 pages, with pictures) autobiography by Hawking, describing his life from his modest childhood through his academic pursuits and personal challenges. His decision to study cosmology, he writes, was rooted in a childhood interest in model trains and complex board games: “an urge to know how systems worked and how to control him,” something he says his studies of the universe now satisfy. “If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.”