Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Book Review-'The Butterfly Effect'

'The Butterfly Effect-How Your Life Matters' by Andy Andrews is a hard-backed gift book. It begins with an Author's Note of how he came to write this book. The concept of the book is quite intriguing: "In 1963, Edward Lorenz presented a hypothesis to the New York Academy of Science. His theory, stated simply, was that: A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of air-eventually capable of starting a hurricane on the other side of the planet.' Basically, everything you do matters. The story follows a string of people responsible for creating a super-seed that saved billions of people from starvation. Who among them saved all of these people? Was it the man who actually created the seed? Or was it the man who hired him to create the seed? And so on.... There is another example in the book taken from the Gettysburg war that is quite fascinating as well.

You can't go wrong with this book as an interesting, inspiring read for yourself, or as a gift for someone else. It has nice illustrations, a variety of fonts, and is easy to read in one sitting.

I was given this book free in exchange for my review by Thomas Nelson publishers.

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