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Title: Briefly Disappointing
Review: In the age of the paper-guzzling 600-page door-stop, Prof. Goodstein is to be congratulated for writing a brief book. However, he may have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.The heart of the book is a discussion of thermodynamics -- but Prof. Goodstein does not tie it well to the problem of increasing demand for energy exceeding the global capacity to supply oil. His analysis of possible future energy sources seems generally correct, but his discussion is too brief to convey much information. Then there is the usual lazy political correctness that has become such an unfortunate feature of so much of the writing of US academics.The concept for this book was great, but it was disappointingly executed -- a real missed opportunity.
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