'take a trip to the hawaii of your mind'...
this calender is essential for the home bar owner - especially the tiki bar lovers, although they might not find quite enough 'tiki' paraphenalia. Hang one in the office and make your friends yearn for a 'tropical itch'.
Commercial bar operators need one of these behind the bar; the glossy photos make the mouth water.
best drink name - suffering bastard
best month - september (mai tai)
amazon, why dont you load up some photos from this calender?

Buy one for yourself, and one for your dad.

This book is a well explained introduction to recent speculation in the field of astronomy and physics, more particularly superstrings and supersymmetry. Here lays his hope to find a 'Theory of the Universe'.
Most of the book tells us the story of 20th century physics (special and general relativity, quantum mechanics).
I missed the swinging style of a John Gribbin for instance. For the content, I prefer the books of John Barrow 'Theories of everything', Martin Rees 'Before the beginning' and Brian Green 'The elegant universe'.
I must say that the book 'Visions' by the same author is of another calibre.

While I take a profound, almost religious, satisfaction in physics, especially the more exotic concepts of relativity and quantum theory, I have not the math-physics type of mind that my friend Steve Smith has--lucky fellow. I found this book readable enough, though, because it doesn't belabor the math side of physics, nor is it one long list of arcane physics formulae. It is still a little more advanced in places than I was fully able to appreciate, but I do enjoy the mental exercise that this kind of a challenge provides. I had heard of the Superstring theory when it first arose, but I did not take the time then to find out much about it. It took Steve's intervention to bring it again to my attention, and this book seemed a good place to start. As a person with an interest in history, especially the history of science, I found the background data on the individual physicists responsible for the various components of the Big Bang Theory and of the Superstring theory of especial interest. It certainly made the acheivements of these people more human to me and therefore more wonderful. It also helped me put together, at least at my rudimentary level of understanding, the thought processes that went into making each advance, much as the works of Australian physicist Paul Davis' books do. Both have a facility for taking the average person through the processes in constructing and testing a theory of the universe. With each step forward presented by the author, the theory made a little more sense. I thoroughly enjoyed the learning expereince and plan on reading some of the other books by the same author.

I bought this book looking for an introduction to the superstring theory and got a heck of a lot more than that! I was surprised to learn more about the rest of physics than I did about superstrings! The book does not throw a bunch of meaningless equations at us that the layperson has no chance of understanding. Instead, we are given a breif, concise history of atomic physics and shown how string theory fits into that as a logical next step. While I was a little dissappointed that there wasn't more information on superstrings, I found this to be an excellent read and a very quotable book. The chapter about the higher six dimensions will blow your mind! Try it sometime!