[techtalk] Layman's Guides to Computer Security

[minae]

> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Brian Sweeney wrote:
>
> > I read a really good book a while back called "Physics for the Rest of
> > Us"(HIGHLY recommended for those curious about modern physics) Good way
to
> > say newbie without saying "dummie", I thought.
> >
>
> One of the books I like to recommend when it comes to describing physics
to a
> layman is "The Dancing Wu Li Masters."  Spectacular description of
particle
> physics...and done in a way that most everybody can grok it.
>
> "The Elegant Universe" is another really good one...that's about
super-string
> theory.

I'll jump in and recommend _Hyperspace_ by Michio Kaku as another readable
layman's theoretical physics book.

-min