The document summarizes Richard Dawkins' book "The Magic of Reality" in 3 sentences. It explains that Dawkins explores the universe without a creator or deity, considers why bad things happen to good people and people's beliefs in past lives and alien abductions. Dawkins jumps into his main subject to consider the universe in all its glory, magical without creator or deity in the sky.

2. The Elements: A Visual
Exploration of Every Known
Atom
in the Universe
by Theodore Gray
 “The book begins with an introduction to the arrangement
of the periodic table. The first 100 of the elements are each
profiled on a two-page spread.
 The left-hand side of the spread features a large color image
of the element in its true form, when possible.
 The right-hand side includes various images of ways the
element appears in the world and explanations of some of
the compounds in which it can be found. Ostergard, Maren.
"The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the
Universe." Booklist 1 Feb. 2011: 84. General OneFile. Web. 5 July
2012.

4.  Dmitri Mendeleev's creation of the first
version of the periodic table ("one of
the great intellectual achievements of
humankind") ranks alongside
achievements by Darwin and Einstein.
 Kean presents the history of science
beginning with Plato, who used the
Greek word for element for the first
time in the belief that elements are
fundamental and unchanging. "Kean,
Sam: THE DISAPPEARING SPOON." Kirkus
Reviews 15 Apr. 2010. General OneFile. Web. 5 July
2012

6.  Of greatest interest are Appel's descriptions of
the early years of the team--their first park, the
great stars of Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig and
company), the building--and later remodeling--of
the original Yankee Stadium and its emotional
razing eight decades later.
 The author also offers the odd detail (Yogi Berra
used a woman's falsie to pad his catcher's mitt),
close looks at the great and not-so-great Yankee
managers (Huggins, Stengel, Houk and Torre
among the former) and the bizarre hire-and-fire-
and-rehire history of Billy Martin and the
irascible George Steinbrenner. Appel, Marty:
PINSTRIPE EMPIRE." Kirkus Reviews 1 Mar. 2012. General
OneFile. Web. 5 July 2012

8.  The author has developed the idea of
vertical farming, which would move
agriculture into high-tech greenhouses
stacked up in specially constructed city
buildings.
 Horizontal farming requires 70 percent of
available freshwater, uses 20 percent of
fossil fuels yearly and produces runoff that
is a major source of water pollution.
 Vertical farms would rely on soil-free
technologies: hydroponics and aeroponics,
which grows plants in a nutrient-laden mist.
 The only thing lacking, he writes, is the
political will and the hundreds of millions
of dollars needed to build a prototype.
Despommier, Dickson: THE VERTICAL FARM." Kirkus
Reviews 1 July 2010. General OneFile. Web. 5 July 2012.

10.  “You rarely pull a gun to start a
conversation, but when I recently told an
in-law that I was writing about Glock
pistols, he improvised a research project.
Reaching beneath his jacket, he quickly
unholstered, unloaded and handed me his
Glock 9 millimeter .
 The Glock is everywhere, in innumerable
TV shows and movies, strapped to most
law enforcement personnel, name-
dropped in hip-hop songs.
 The Glock is ''the Google of modern
civilian handguns,” writes Barrett. The
Glock achieved such market penetration
and cultural cachet as much because of
timing and marketing as any native
characteristic of the gun.

11.  Troubled by some of the gun's innovative features --the
Glock lacks an external safety mechanism; its ''trigger
safety'' is released by merely pulling the trigger-Congress
convened hearings on the Glock.
 Gun manufacturers like Glock found the assault
weapons ban of the 1990s ''laughably easy to evade,'' and
Glock, according to the author, created shell companies
to shield revenue from the I.R.S. Meanwhile, the
company's marketing team used the Glock's infamy and
aggressive appearance to inaugurate the pistol's
Hollywood career. Washburn, Michael. "The Business End." The
New York Times Book Review 29 Jan. 2012: 22(L). General OneFile. Web. 5
July 2012.

13.  As someone who admits that he "had a reputation
as a party animal; no one had ever accused me of
being a connoisseur," he brings plenty of
knowledge and experience with wine to the beat.
 "Is any of this relevant to the average wine lover, as
opposed to the wealthy collector?" he writes at one
point. "I think it is, in several ways. Just as
developments in Formula One race cars eventually
inform the engineering of the cars the rest of us
drive every day, just as haute couture trickles down
into the wardrobes of those who have never
attended a fashion show"--and so on. "McInerney, Jay:
THE JUICE." Kirkus Reviews 1 Apr. 2012. General OneFile. Web. 7
July 2012.

15.  “We the people of America are "living in an
official state of garbage denial," Humes, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author (Eco
Barons, 2009) . . . We, over the course of a
lifetime, will generate 102 tons of trash.
 Humes takes us on a garbage tour, which begins
in a hoarders' home. He swings into a fascinating
history of trash, from ancient Athens and the first
municipal dump to the "legendary filth" of
nineteenth-century New York City.”
 The plague of plastic bags and bottles and
mindless, credit-card-fueled consumerism has
many dire consequences, the worst of which is
the trashing of the oceans, which have become
poisonous "plastic chowder."

17. Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality: How
We Know What’s Really
True
 Dawkins jumps into his main
subject—to consider the universe
in all its glory, magical without
creator or deity in the sky.
 He considers why bad things
happen to good people (call it
randomness-and, Dawkins
stresses, the real question is, "Why
does anything happen?"), the
belief of some people in past lives,
alien abductions and original sin.
Dawkins, Richard: THE MAGIC OF
REALITY. Kirkus Reviews 15 Aug. 2011.
General OneFile. Web. 5 July 2012

18.  Dawkins, eminent Oxford scholar, defender of
evolution and spokesman for science delivers
ten chapters arguing the non-existence of god,
along with documentation of the atrocities
religions have wrought.
 This is exceptional reading--even funny at
times. (A footnote declaims that in the promise
of 72 virgins to Muslim martyrs, "virgins" is a
mistranslation of "white raisins of crystal
clarity.")
 Accordingly, Dawkins focuses heavily on the
monotheistic religions with quotations from
the Bible and Koran that sanction genocide,
rape and the killing of unbelievers. "Dawkins,
Richard: The God Delusion." Kirkus Reviews 1 Aug. 2006: 764.
General OneFile. Web. 5 July 2012.