Since I'm a card-carrying Barnes & Noble member, I get the emails about special sales and whatnot. Usually it's about a whole lot of nothing I don't really care about; what I look out for are the coupons 
So this month I got a coupon for 15% off one item. It was going to expire after Sunday, so I dragged my dad with me off on a jaunt down to the bookstore (had to gas up the car anyway, so that was a good excuse).
I've been in the mood to grab something from the science/astronomy/philosophy section, so that's exactly what I did. Got two beauties:
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - by Brian Greene
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past?
From Newton's unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein's fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics' entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
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Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement - edited by John Brockman
Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin's theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of living things, but highlights the importance of a scientific understanding in our culture and in our lives.
Recently the movement known as Intelligent Design has attracted the attention of journalists, educators, and legislators. The scientific community is puzzled and saddened by this trend- not only because it distorts modern biology, but also because it diverts people from the truly fascinating ideas emerging from the real science of evolution. Here, join sixteen of our preeminent thinkers whose clear, accessible, and passionate essays reveal the fact and power of Darwin's theory, and the beauty of the scientific quest to understand our world.
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So yeah, I'm a science geek, as well as a scifi geek I love reading stuff like this. It's a good opportunity to learn more and keep my mind open.
Now the question is, which one to read first? Heh.
