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Abram, David. Becoming animal: an earthly cosmology. New York, Pantheon Books, c2010. 313 p. Bryson, Bill. A short history of nearly everything. New York, Broadway Books, 2003. 544 p. Commoner, Barry. The closing circle; nature, man, and technology. New York, Knopf, 1971.
326 p. Frank, Lone. My beautiful genome: exposing our genetic future, one quirk at a time. Oxford, England, Oneworld, 2011. 313 p. Gleick, James. The information: a history, a theory, a flood. New York, Pantheon Books, c2011. 526 p. Gould, Stephen Jay. Hen’s teeth and horse’s toes. New York, Norton, c1983. 413 p. Greene, B. (Brian). The hidden reality: parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 370 p. Hohn, Donovan. Moby-duck: the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them. New York, Viking, 2011. 402 p. Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer. New York, Scribner, 2010. 573 p. Panek, Richard. The 4 percent universe: dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. 297 p. Pinker, Steven. Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined. New York, Viking, 2011. 802 p. Pretor-Pinney, Gavin. The wavewatcher’s companion: from ocean waves to light waves via shock waves, stadium waves, and all the rest of life’s undulations. New York, Bloomsbury, 2010. 336 p. Richter, Burton. Beyond smoke and mirrors: climate change and energy in the 21st century. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010. 226 p. Shubin, Neil. Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body. New York, Pantheon Books, c2008. 229 p. Warner, William. Beautiful swimmers: watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay. Boston, Little, Brown, c1976. Wolfe, Nathan. The viral storm: the dawn of a new pandemic age. New York, Times Books, 2011. 304 p. Books Written by Speakers in the LC Science, Technology & Business Division Lecture SeriesCutler, Alan. The seashell on the mountaintop: a story of science, sainthood and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth. London, Heinemann, 2003. 228 p. Goodall, Jane, and others. Hope for animals and their world: how endangered species are being rescued from the brink. New York, Grand Central Pub., 2009. 392 p. Herbert, Sandra. Charles Darwin, geologist. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2005. 485 p. Kakalios, James. The physics of superheroes. Spectacular 2nd ed. New York, Gotham Books, c2009. 424 p. Nestle, Marion. What to eat. New York, North Point Press, 2006. 611 p. Restak, Richard M. The new brain: how the modern age is rewiring your mind. Emmaus, Pa., Rodale, c2003. 228 p. Vertosick, Frank T., Jr. The genius within: discovering the intelligence of every living thing. New York, Harcourt, c2002. 354 p. A Few Other Suggestions from the PastBodanis, David. The secret house: the extraordinary science of an ordinary day. New York, Berkeley Books, 2003. Gribbin, John. The scientists: a history of science told through the lives of its greatest inventors. New York, Random House, c2003. 646 p. Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.). A brief history of time. Updated and expanded tenth anniversary ed. New York, Bantam Books, 1998. 212 p. Kandel, Eric. R. In search of memory: the emergence of a new science of mind. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, c2006. 510 p. Pretor-Pinney, Gavin. The cloudspotter’s guide: the science, history, and culture of clouds. New York, Perigee Books, c2006. 320 p. Thomas, Lewis. The lives of a cell: notes of a biology watcher. New York, Viking Press, 1974. 153 p. Watson, James D. The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. New York, Atheneum, 1968. 226 p. Weiner, Jonathan. Time, love, memory: a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior. New York, Knopf, 1999. 300 p. Wilson, Edward O. Naturalist. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, c1994. 380p. |
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