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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
Column: In praise of science books by Phillip Manning
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman
What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel
Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs
A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, The Space Race Begins by Michael D'Antonio
The Third Domain:The Untold Story of Archea and the Future of Biotechnology by Tim Friend
Einstein:His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World by Phillip F. Schewe
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
Dreaming Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendental Software by Scott Rosenberg
Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, by Francis Collins
Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground, by Eric T. Freyfogle
Crick and Darwin Biographies, by Matt Ridley and David Quammen
Underwaterto Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea
by Trevor Norton
The WeatherMakers by Tim Flannery
Essay:Books make science popular
Black Bodiesand Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics byJennifer Ouellette
Endless FormsMost Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devoby Sean B. Carroll
The BestAmerican Science and Nature Writing 2005 by Jonathan Weiner,ed.
Our InnerApe: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Areby Frans de Waal
Stargazer:The Life and Times of the Telescope by Fred Watson
Shockwave:Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker
Out of Eden:An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick
The ProteusEffect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine by AnnB. Parson
Kindness ina Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism by Nigel Barber
Mendelin the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foodsby Nina Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown
Degrees Kelvin:A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy by David Lindley
The Ancestor'sTale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by RichardDawkins
Human Nature:ABlueprint for Managing the Earth -- by People, for Peopleby James Trefil
CountDown: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competitionby Steve Olson
Adam's Curse:A Future without Men by Brian Sykes
TheEnd of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World byPaul Roberts.
AShortcut Through Time: The Path To the Quantum Computerby George Johnson.
His Brother's Keeper: A Story from theEdge of Medicine by Jonathan Weiner
The Birthof the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexitiesof Human Thought by Gary Marcus.
Aristotle'sChildren: How Christians, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered AncientWisdom and Illuminated the Dark Agesby Richard E. Rubenstein.
The Fabricof the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
The ManWho Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth'sAntiquityby Jack Repcheck
Naturevia Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human
Pendulum: LeonFoucault and the Triumph of Scienceby Amir Aczel.
TheSeashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood andthe Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
The Party'sOver: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies byRichard Heinberg.
The Big Splator How Our Moon Came to Be byDana Mackenzie.
Prometheansin the Lab:Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World bySharon Bertsch McGrayne.
DNA: TheSecret of Life by James D. Watson(with Andrew Berry).
The Monkin the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, theFather of Genetics by Robin MarantzHenig.
Love at GoonPark: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affectionby Deborah Blum.
The BlankSlate: The Modern Denial of Human Natureby Steven Pinker.
The Lunar Men:Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World,by Jenny Uglow.
Tuxedo Park:A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changedthe Course of World War II by JennetConant.
Terrorsand Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Characterand Outcome of World War II by TomShachtman.
Project Orion:The True Story of the Atomic Spaceshipby George Dyson.
Seeingand Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds tothe Heavens by Richard Panek.
*The Northern Lights: The True Story of theMan Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis
* Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortageby Kenneth S. Deffeyes.
*The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage andthe Quest to Build the First Computer by Doron Swade
* Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhoodby Oliver Sacks
* The Spark of Life: Darwin and the PrimevalSoup by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada
* The Forgetting: Alzheimer's -- Portrait ofan Epidemic by David Shenk
* ENIAC:The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computerby Scott McCartney
* Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry fromParallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
* Decoding Darkness: The Search for the GeneticCauses of Alzheimer's Disease by Rudolph E. Tanzi andAnn B. Parson
* Stardust: Supernovae and Life -- The CosmicConnection by John Gribben with Mary Gribben
* A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Storyby William Souder
* The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The War BetweenAnimal Research and Animal Protection by Deborah Rudacille,Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* Genome:The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by MattRidley
* The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measuredthe Age of the Universe by John Gribbin
* The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor,and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age by Edmund BlairBolles
* Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Coldby Tom Shachtman
* The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Storyby Michael Lewis
* Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist andHis Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner
* Cradle of Life by J. William Schopf
* The Restless Sea by Robert Kunzig
* Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals'Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
* Life:A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of
Life on Earth by Richard Fortey
* Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina
* The Ascent of Science by Brian Silver
* Connected Knowledge: Science, Philosophy,and Education by Alan Cromer
* The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s)Report by Timothy Ferris
* Our Stolen Future by Theo Colburn,Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
* Darwin's Orchestra by Michael Sims
* And the Waters Turned to Blood byRodney Barker
* The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Streetand Main Street
Over California's Ancient Redwoods by David Harris
* The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals,Timeless Worlds by Diane Ackerman
* The Beak of the Finch: A Story ofEvolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
* And No Birds Sing: The Story of an EcologicalDisaster in a
Tropical Paradise by Mark Jaffe
Columns, Essays, Interviews
* "Eureka! -- Science for Everyone"
* "The Secrets of the Elements"
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