Reading List
“Suggested Readings for Gifted Students Interested in Science”
"Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System" by Ivars Peterson (Freeman
Press, 1993)
“Secrets of Victory,” by Michael S. Sweeney, UNC Press, 2001.
Vectors, Matrixes, and Tensors
http://www.ohio.edu/people/mohlenka/research/trv/
“Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the
Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip” by Kirk Johnson
“Written in Stone: evolution, the fossil record and our place in nature” Brian
Switek
“The Emerald Planet” David Beerling
“Genome” Matt Ridley
“The agile gene” Matt Ridley
“The selfish gene” Richard Dawkins
“The dynamic genome” Nina Federoff (member of the National Academy of
Sciences)
“Mendel in the Kitchen” Nina Federoff (about GMOs)
“Life Ascending: 10 great inventions of evolution” Nick Lane
Ignorance: how it drives science” Stuart Fresten
“Imagine” Jonah Lehrer
“Thinking in systems” Donella Meadowns
Statistics as Principled Argument” Robert Abelson
“Zero” Charles Seife
“Here be Dragons” Koernen & Levay
“Chaos” James Cleick
“The botany of desire” Michael Pollan
“Hybrid: history and science of plant breeding” Noel Kingsbury
“Outliers” Malcolm Gladwell
“Demons in Eden: the paradox of plant diversity” Jonathan Silvertown
“Eating the sun: how plants power the planet” Oliver Morton
“Biology: Scientific process and social issues” Allen and Baker
“Seeing what others don’t” Gary Klein