Reviews for Calgary, Alberta

The average rating for Calgary, Alberta based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-17 00:00:00 Antonio Chavry i picked this book up on a lunch break at a local bookstore about 10 years ago, never seen it since at any other location, but it's genuine and fantastic and fun to have around. from a typical cursory read, it covers most theories and philosophical notions in a OED fashion, carefully compresses ideas into a simplistic chapter or three and allows you to understand a concept like objectivism, free markets or keynesian theory, or embourgeoisement, gravitons, insulin, maoism and many worlds theory, to name one of hundreds of topics in 930+ pages. as a dictionary, it's kind of useless. as a way to explain a topic or get an accurate refresher on a topic, it's fantastic as a crib book on science or philosophy, which can often delve into topics that require concentrated time spent with objective perspectives, like kant, wittgenstein, etc. unfortunately, it doesn't cover those topics well, but it covers science, economics and Modern ideas at a high school level. nowadays, wikipedia can relay the same information about similar topics, in a faster, broader and more referenced fashion, which can be useful when you need to cover more immediate questions or research topics, but having the book around for those times when you're speculative or stuck, is enjoyable. In some ways, it's like a michael crichton book without a plotline or characters, just lots of science and philosophy tied together with large paragraphs, a non-descript cover and a thick binding. the DoMT covers a broad breadth and depth of ideas and famous thinkers, movements, and ideas from the 20th century quite well, and while it's already dated in some topics, it covers things in quite an almanac fashion. every page is brilliant though, that you can open it up anywhere and read two or three entries and keep reading for pages and pages, looking for what's next, a portable encyclopaedia just for modern ideas. if the pair (Bullock and Trombley) write a new edition for 21st century topics, or cover more philosophy topics or areas of medicine, science, economics or history, i think it would be quite popular with students of all ages.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-09-09 00:00:00 Thomas Christenson *note to self. Copy from A.