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Kareem Mohamed kareemrisksaleh — The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1985, is a solid, thoroughly researched and well documented series of 82 essays on the history of human discovery. Some of these discoveries are physical, such as the New World or the trade route around Africa. Some of the discoveries are scientific such as the Calculus, the atom, or Evolution. For me, the book has two aspects that set it well above similar works on scientific history. That is, an exploration of how we discovered things that one might not normally think of as a discovery, such as the measurement of Time, or how did the idea of divisions in pre-history into Stone, Bronze and Iton ages develop. How did we start to measure Time? This is a fascinating subject and one in which Boorstin indulges enough space to make a decent foray into the subject. The other novel aspect of the book is the occasional discussion of "why not them?". Why didn't the Chinese or Islam invent the movable printing press? They had better and more advanced technologies in printing and in paper production long before the west, but it took Gutenberg to invent it. "Why not them" is at least as interesting (if not more) a subject than why Gutenberg did invent it. Even though 25 years has passed since its publication, the work does not seem to show its age as Boorstin's positions his text in a manner to transcend our current period. Many of these essays will be just as interesting to readers 50 or 100 years from now.

Charley Charles charleycharles — Not worth the trouble. At first glance this book seemed interesting however pretty soon into it you realize that the whole purpose seemed to be that the author (a drug addict and con who modeled the main character after himself) just wanted a place to rant about how "pure" junkies are and corrupt the police are. Yes it seems to be a look from the inside and has a fresh voice however it isn't well written, nor is it particularly engaging. I was given this book to read by a friend and after reading it had to look at her and ask, "why?" The plot is predictable and the characters are black-and-white with very simple dialogue. All in all it was a waste of time. Enough said.