Recommended Science Writing for AP English Language
by Lawrence Scanlon
Brewster High School
Brewster, New York
Books
Angier, Natalie, ed. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum in Francis Bacon: The Major Works. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Brockman, John, ed. The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Mariner Books, 2002.
Dawkins, Richard. A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
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Eiseley, Loren. The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature. New York: Vintage Books, 1959.
____________. The Night Country. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971.
Ferris, Timothy, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2001. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Fortey, Richard. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.
____________. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.
Gleick, James, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2000. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1992.
____________. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 1995.
____________. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1985.
____________. The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities. New York: Harmony Books, 2003.
Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Lester, James D. Of Bunsen Burners, Bones, and Belles Lettres: Classic Essays Across the Curriculum. New York: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1995.
Medawar, Peter. Pluto's Republic: Incorporating the Art of the Soluble and Induction Intuition in Scientific Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Otis, Laura, ed. Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Pinker, Steven, ed. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
____________. How The Mind Works. New York: Norton, 1999.
Quammen, David, ed. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Ridley, Matt, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2002. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
Sacks, Oliver, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2003. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
Sagan, Carl. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: Ballantine Books, 1978.
Sobel, Dava, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2004. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.
Snow, C.P. The Two Cultures and A Second Look: An Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964.
Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. New York: Penguin Books, 1978.
____________. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
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