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The Science of Disorder: Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World
Book by Hokikian, Jack
320 pages, Hardcover
First published May 15, 2002
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January 1, 2012
The first few chapters of this book describe the origin and content of the first and second laws of thermodynamics in an interesting way. After that, the author starts to try to apply the second law to just about everything else in the modern world. The book is quite scattered and not very interesting when it tries to do that.
February 12, 2019
The author makes analogies in each chapter between entropy and that chapter's topic. That's fine, but in each case it is presented not as analogy, but as a true example of entropy itself. I found this disingenuous; noting the similarities would have been sufficient.
More broadly, the book is relatively simplistic. I would say it suits a reader who is not fluent in science. As a reader with a science degree, I was disappointed to find very few ideas within which were new to me.
More broadly, the book is relatively simplistic. I would say it suits a reader who is not fluent in science. As a reader with a science degree, I was disappointed to find very few ideas within which were new to me.
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