Lake views

After "Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries", covering the period 1987-2000, this is the second compilation of Steven Weinberg's general essays, covering the period 2000-2008. From the Publisher: Just as Henry David Thoreau “traveled a great deal in Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In Lake Views Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words of New York…