Recommended by various teachers on NSTA’s listserv; Compiled in part by Herbert Tsoi
Author(s) / Editor(s)
Abbey, Edward
Abbott, Edwin
Ackerman, Diane
Ackerman, Diane
Ackerman, Diane
Aczel, Amir
Adams, Douglas
Adams, Douglas
Adams , Douglas and
Mark Carwardine
Adler, Irving & De Witt,
Cornelius
Alder, Ken
Name of book
Desert Solitaire: A season in the wilderness
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
A natural history of the senses
The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures
Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales
The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals,
Timeless Worlds
Uranium Wars: the Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
Last Chance to See
The Wonders of Physics: An Introduction to the
Physical World
The Measure of All Things: The seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world
Page # Publisher, year of publication, ISBN Comments accompanying some of the original recommendations
352 1985
96 1992 The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions (Asimov). Thought provoking very short book.
352
249
208
Vintage Books, 1991.
First Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN 0-
679-74226-3
Vintage, 1997. ISBN 978-0679776239
256
208
256
256
165
448
224
1995
Golden Press, 1966. ASIN
B0007DVHGQ
Free Press, 2002.
1998
Traces the story of the discoveries around radioactivity, then describes the competition to develop the fission bomb and continues with the Hbomb and the cold war.
The story of the two astronomers/scientists commissioned to measure the length of the prime meridian through France in order to determine the length of the prime meridian and, thereby, the meter. Mechain fudges his data, Delambre makes calculation errors.
Alexander, Caroline
Alten, Steve
Alvarez, Walter
Alvord, Lori & Pelt,
Elizabeth Cohen Van
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic
Expedition
Meg: a novel of deep terror
T-Rex and the Crater of Doom
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo
Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and
Traditional Healing
Ambrose, Stephen
American Nuclear Society Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction: The First 50
Years
Andrews, Sarah
Andrews, Sarah
Undaunted Courage
Fault Line (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)
Killer Dust: A Mystery Featuring Forensic Geologist
Em Hansen
Angier, Natalie
Ardrey, Robert
The Canon: A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science
African Genesis: A personal investigation into the
288
216
204
528
193
336
320
304
384
2008
2008
2000. ISBN 0553378007
American Nuclear Society, 1992.
ISBN 0-89448-557-1
2003
2003
1977 A easy read.

Ariely, Dan
Asimov, Isaac
Asimov, Isaac
Atkins, Peter
Atkins, Peter
Baker, Rachel and
Copelman, Evelyn
Baker, Robert A.
Bakker, Bob
Ball, Phillip
Barry, John
Bartusiak, Marcia
Baxter, Stephen
Beckette, Simon
Beerling, David
Bekoff, marc
Belkin, Lisa
Bell, Madison Smartt
Benton, Michael J.
Berger, John
Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich
Berry, Adrian animal origins and nature of man
Predictably Irrational
Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery:
Updated and Illustrated
Understanding Physics: 3 Volumes in One: Motion,
Sound & Heat; Light, Magnetism & Electricity; The
Electron, Proton & Neutron (v. 1-3)
Galileo's Finger: The ten great ideas of science
The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements (Science Masters Series)
The First Woman Doctor
322
791
496
A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown:
Essays for a Scientific Age
Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the
Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in
Chemistry
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the
Sound of Space-Time
Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of
Deep Time
The Chemistry of Death
480
220
528
272
256
313
The Emerald Planet: how plants changed Earth's history
304
Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart 256
400
176
192
192
First, Do No Harm 368
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New
Science in an Age of Revolution
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass
Extinction of All Time
Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option: A Critical
Look At Our Energy Alternatives
The Geese of Beaver Bog
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Galileo and the Dolphins: Amazing But True Stories
From Science
214
336
384
240
400
288
HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. ISBN:
0062701134
Dorset Press, 1988. ISBN 978-
0880292511
Scholastic Paperbacks,
1987. ISBN 059044767X.
Prentice Hall, 1982. ISBN
0138526087
2001
1998
Berkley, 2003. ISBN 0-425-18620-2
2006
Bantam Books, 2006. ISBN 978-
0593055212
Geology kids will find fascinating because it is so graphic and gruesome
Oxford University Press, 2003,
0195163370
Ballantine Books, 1993, ISBN: 0-449-
22290-X.
W. W. Norton & Co, 2005. ISBN 0393-
05155-2
2005
An exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries.
Ramparts Press, 1976. ISBN 978-
0878670635
ASIN B000GG4FZE 2005
2009. ISBN 978-0061129070
1996

Biddle, Wayne
Biro, David
Bjornerud, Marcia
Blanding, Sharon L.
A Field Guide to Germs
One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from
Doctor to Patient.
240
304
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth 256
The Science of Sports: How Things in Sports Work 201
Blum, Deborah
Blum, Deborah
Bobick, James
Bodanis, David
Bodanis, David
Bohjalian, Chris A.
Bortz, Fred
Bortz, Fred
Bortz, Fred and Bortz,
Alfred
Bortz, Fred
Sex on the Brain
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of
Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Handy Biology Answer Book
E=MC2 : The Biography of the World's Most
Famous Equation
Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
Midwives
Library of Subatomic Particles
Beyond Jupiter – The Story of Planetary
Astronomer Heidi Hammel
Physics: Decade by Decade
384
128
263
144
352
319
565
337
384
Superstuff ! Materials That Have Changed Our
Lives
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and
Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth
A Most Damnable Invention : Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World
Mars and the Mind of Man
352
272
143
Bova, Ben
Bown, Stephen
Bradbury, Ray; Clarke,
Arthur C.; Murray, Bruce;
Sagan, Carl; Sullivan,
Walter
Bragg, Melvin
Brody, David Eliot and
Arnold R.
Brown, G.
Brox, Jane
Bryson, Bill
Bryson, Bill
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their
Discoveries – from Archimedes to DNA
Science Class You Wish You Has: The seven greatest scientific discoveries in history and the people who made them.
Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy - Count Rumford:
The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
386
400
182
368
A Walk in the Woods
A Short History of Nearly Everything
304
560
2002
Vintage. IBSN 0-375-70673-9
2006
Barnes & Noble, 2003. ISBN 978-
0760735015
2004. ISBN 978-1578591503
2007
Vintage Books, ISBN 0375706771
Rosen Publishing Group, 2004
2006
Facts On File, 2007. ISBN
9780816055326
Franklin Watts, 1990
Harper Collins, 2004. ISBN 0-380-
97519-X
Thomas Dunne Books, 2005. ISBN 0-
312-32913-X
Harper & Row, 1973. ISBN 978-
0060104436
Really well written story of geology
A great book for understanding a lot of basic chemistry and physics.
6 volumes. Each volume is about 64 pages
Wiley, 2000. ISBN 978-0471396840
Sutton Publishing, 2001. ISBN 978-
1422393239
The history of lighting is a microcosm of scientific and technological advances since the Stone Age.
The book provides students with the reasons of why the Scientific
Method evolved as a process and why even they can become scientists. They learn that Newton was a slightly crazy alchemist,

Bryson, Bill At Home: A short history of private life 592
Buchmann, Stephen L. &
Nabhan, Gary Paul
Buckingham, John
Burdick, Alan
Burke, James
Cairns-Smith, A.G
Callanan, Maggie &
Kelley, Patricia
Carnegie Library of
Pittsburg, Science and
Technology Department
Carr, Nicholas
The Forgotten Pollinators
Chasing the Molecule
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's
Telescope Changed The Truth and Other Events in
History That Dramatically Altered Our
Understanding of the World
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific
Detective Story
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness,
Needs, and Communications of the Dying
The Handy Science Answer Book
144
239
650
Carroll, Michael C.
Carroll, Sean B.
Carroll, Sean B.
The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's
Secret Germ Laboratory
Remarkable Creatures
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of
Evo Devo
276
352
352
368
Carroll, Sean B.
Carroll, Sean B.
Carson, Ben
Carson, Rachel
Cheney, Margaret
Chown, Marcus
Cindi Broaddus, Cindi &
Suiters, Kimberly Lohman
Cobb, Cathy, and
Fetterolf, Monty L.
Colinvaux, Paul A.
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate
Forensic Record of Evolution
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the
Search for the Origin of Species
Gifted Hands
A Silent Spring
Tesla: Man Out of Time
The matchbox that ate a Forty Ton Truck: what everyday things tell us about the universe
A Random Act: An Inspiring True Story of Fighting to Survive and Choosing to Forgive
The Joy of Chemistry
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's
Perspective
304
352
323
440
400
269
224
393
256
312
262
352
352
1997
2006
1995
Einstein had trouble with math and school, Darwin procrastinated on publishing his ideas, and so on.
Bryson reconstructs the fascinating history of the household, room by room. With waggish humor and a knack for unearthing the extraordinary stories behind the seemingly commonplace.
National Book Award finalist
1990
1997, ISBN 0553378767
Visible Ink Press, 2002.
ISBN 978-1578591404
New York: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN
006-001141-6
2006
Explores how the tools of the internet age are altering the way people find and use information.
The new science of "evo devo" (evolutionary developmental biology) examines the relationships between embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different time scales a fast-paced look at how DNA demonstrates the evolutionary process 2007
2009 an entertaining and readable book of the very real people and their true adventures in their search for answers in evolutionary biology
Zondervan, 1996. ISBN: 0310214696 Autobiography of an African American doctor
Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1970 American Geographical Society - Conservationist of the Year. 1963
2001 ISBN 978-0743215367
2006, ISBN 0060735155
2005 ISBN 1591022312
A cosmology writer puts basic physics principles in an everyday context.
Princeton University Press, 1978.
ISBN 0-691-08194-8

Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Cook, Robin
Corwin, Jeff
Cousins, Norman,
Coyne, Jerry
Credit, Larry P.,
Hartunian, Sharon G.,
Nowak, Margaret J.,
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crichton, Michael
Crick, Francis
Acceptable Risk
Chromosome 6
Coma
Contagion
Fatal Cure
Harmful Intent
Mutation
Outbreak
Terminal
Living on the Edge: Amazing Relationships in the
Natural World
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient:
Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
Why Evolution is True
Your Guide to Complementary Medicine
Airframe
Andromeda Strain
Congo
Disclosure
Jurassic Park
Next
Prey
Rising Sun
Sphere
State of Fear
The Lost World
Timeline
Travels
Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific
Discovery
544
672
393
512
440
272
351
286
348
512
399
418
528
461
208
406
460
386
496
464
368
338
340
445
320
192
304
224
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York, 1991
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York, 1989. ISBN 0-425-11965-3
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
The Berkeley Publishing Group, New
York
2004
Norton Publishing , ISBN 0393041905
2001
2010
Avery Publishing Group, 1998, ISBN:
0-89529-831-7.
Bt Bound; (May 2000) ISBN:
061321546X
1990 medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels medical suspense novels
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller
Techno-thriller

Crump, Thomas
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
Dawkins, Richard
Dawkins, Richard
Dawkins, Richard
A Brief History of Science as Seen Through the
Development of Scientific Instruments
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1831-1836)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to
Sex
The Voyage of the Beagle
Darwin, Charles;
Quammen, David (ed)
Davies, Paul
Davis, Sampson; Jenkins,
George; Hunt, Rameck;
Page, Lisa Frazier
Dawkins, Richard
Dawkins, Richard; Ward,
Lala
Dawkins, Richard
On the Origin of Species – illustrated edition
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The
Ultimate Fate Of The Universe
The Pact: Three Young Men make a Promise and
Fulfill a Dream
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies,
Science, and Love
Climbing Mount Improbable
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian view of Life
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of
Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the evidence of
Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
The Extended Phenotype
Dawkins, Richard
Dawkins, Richard
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for
Evolution
The Selfish Gene
Dawkins, Richard
De Kruif, Paul; Gonzalez-
Crussi, F.
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder
Microbe Hunters
425
520
430
216
386
176
272
406
472
384
352
372
272
352
192
688
496
Deffeyes, Kenneth S.
Dethier, Vincent
Diamond, Jared
Diamond, Jared
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage 232
To Know a Fly 120
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 592
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies
496
ISBN 0-841l9-235-X
Basic Books, 1997. ISBN 978-
0465038510
2003, ISBN 157322989X
Long, but classic.
A much more enjoyable read than other Darwin works. Short and a classic that any serious biology student should read
The illustrations are plentiful and marvelous and spaced throughout the book are letters and excerpts from Darwin's other writings.
Three men who make a pact to grove up to be doctors.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2003. ISBN
0-618-33540-4
New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
1996. ISBN 0-393-31682-3
New York: Basic Books. 1995. ISBN
0-465-06990-8
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004. ISBN
0-618-00583-8
New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
1986. ISBN 0-393-31570-3
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1982. ISBN 0-19-288051-9
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2006. ISBN
0-618-68000-4
Transworld. 2009. ISBN 0-593-06173-
X
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1976. ISBN 0-19-286092-5
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1998. ISBN
0-618-05673-4
Aventis Prize Finalist, 2005
L.A. Times Book Prize, 1987
Los Angeles Times Literary Prize
An interesting introduction to scientific thinking through the discoveries of Pasteur, Koch, and others. Be careful with this one some historic terms for people of different races may cause students and parents concern
A very slim book on scientific investigation. Easy and fun.
Aventis Prize Finalist, 2006
Pulitzer Prize, Aventis Prize, 1998

Dr. Seuss
Douglas, John and
Olshaker, Mark
Douglas, John and
Olshaker, Mark
Drye, William
Du Brul, Jack B.
Duane, Diane
Dubner, Stephen &
Leavitt, Steven
Dubner, Stephen &
Leavitt, Steven
Earle, Sylvia
Earle, Sylvia
Einstein, Albert
Eisner, Thomas
Diamond, Jared
Dillard, Annie
Dingus, Lowell & Lowe,
Timothy
Dixon, Dougal
Dolnick, Edward
Dolnick, Edward
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
432
304
Mistaken Extinction : Dinosaur Evolution and the
Origin of Birds
332
After Man: A zoology of the Future
The Clockwork Universe: Issac Newton, The Royal
Society, and the Birth of the Modern World.
124
400
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s
1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
400
The Lorax 72
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit 375
Obsession: The FBI’s Legendary Profiler Probes the
Psyches of Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers and their
Victims and Tells How to Fight Back
Storm of the Century, the Labor Day Hurricane of
1935
Vulcan’s Forge
Deep Wizardry
Freakonomics
379
326
348
384
320
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic
Substitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers should by
Life Insurance
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's are One
Relativity the Special and the General Theory: A clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand
For Love of Insects
320
361
320
92
464
Eisner, Thomas, Eisner,
Maria, and Siegler,
Melody
Emoto, Masaru
Emsley, John
Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders,
Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
384
The Hidden Messages in Water 159
Molecules of murder: criminal molecules and classic 276
1974, HarperCollins. ISBN 1-56849-
706-7
Aventis and L A Times Book Prize, 1992
Pulitzer Prize Non-fiction 1975
Elementary but usable even in high school. Message is conservation
Adventure fiction about an undersea volcano
Gramercy, 1988. ISBN 0517029618
Very interesting easy read if you like insects and spiders. Rather long, but the chapters stand alone so you can assign just part of the book.
Eisner provides simplified explanations of lots of different experiments he and his students have performed along with their meaning. My favorite is on the silk “writing” produced by some orb weaving spiders.
His ingenious simple test of a hypothesis is classic.
Atria, 2005. ISBN 978-0743289801
2008 Although fairly technical, this book is full of fascinating details and well

cases
Emsley, John
Emsley, John
Emsley, John
Epstein, Fred J.
Epstein, Lewis Carroll
Essig, Mark
Evans, Howard Ensign
Ewing, Rex
Farmer, Nancy
Ferris, Timothy
Ferris, Timothy
Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing
Materials in Everyday Life
Nature's Building Blocks: an A-Z of the elements
The 13th Element: the sordid tale of murder, fire, and phosphorus
Gifts of Time
272
560
327
253
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality 582
Edison and the Electric Chair: The Story of Light and Death
Life on a Little Known Planet
Hydrogen: Hot Stuff Cool Science: Discover the future of energy
The House of the Scorpion
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Seeing in the Dark: How amateur Astronomers are
Discovering the Wonders of the Universe
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten
Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
368
330
288
380
512
400
486 Feynman, Richard;
Feynman, Michelle;
Ferris, Timothy
Feynman, Richard
Feynman, Richard P.
Feynman, Richard P.
Feynman, Richard P.
Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces:
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant
Teacher
The Feynman Lectures on Physics including
Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and
Extended Edition
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-
Scientist
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Feynman, Richard Phillips Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Feynman, Richard Phillips What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Fiffer, Steve
Fink, Carolyn Parnall
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the
Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found
On Duty
384
1552
144
270
352
256
272
256
The Berkley Publishing Group, 1993,
ISBN: 0-425-14403-8.
Insight Press, 2009. ISBN 978-
0935218084
PixyJack Press, 2007. ISBN 978-
0977372416
Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 978-
0465023714
Perseus, 2001. ISBN 978-
0738206509
Addison Wesley, 2005. ISBN 978-
0805390452
Basic Books, 2005. ISBN 978-
0465023943
Basic Books, 2005. ISBN 978-
0465023950
1988 ISBN 9780553347845 Bantam
Books
W. H. Freeman, 2001. ISBN 978-
0716794622
ISBN 0-449-14965-X presented actual case studies (both old and modern). It makes some interesting points: 1) Murder by poison (and to get away with it) is virtually impossible given our current forensic abilities, 2) many
"natural" chemicals are among the most toxic 3) Most chemical have both beneficial and detrimental effects depending on dose.
All about phosphorus. Lots of bombs and boiling of urine. High school boys should like it
Explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way a science fiction novel about cloning and growing people to provide body parts to keep drug lords alive. amazing
True stories about patients as told by a nurse

Firlik, Katrina
Florman, Samuel C.
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon
Exposes Life on the Inside
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
271
224
Flatow, Ira
Foco, Zonya & Moss,
Stephen
Follett, Ken
Follett, Ken
Follett, Ken
Forbes, Peter
Forsyth, Adrian & Miyata,
Ken
Fortey, Richard
Fossey, Dian
Fourteen Friends.
Fraser, Alistair
Freese, Barbara
Friedman, Thomas L.
Frisch, Karl
Galanti, Geri Ann.
Gamow, George
Gamow, George
Gamow, George
Gamow, George;
Hookam, John
Gamow, George
Rainbows, Curveballs, and Other Wonders of the
Natural World Explained
Water With Lemon: An Inspiring Story of Diet-free,
Guilt-free Weight Loss!
A Dangerous Fortune
The Third Twin
Whiteout
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-Inspiration — Engineering
New Materials and Devices from Nature
Tropical Nature: The Life and Death in the Rain
Forests of Central and South America
Earth--An Intimate History
Gorillas in the Mist
The Fourteen Friends Guide to Eldercaring:
Practical Advice, Inspiration, Shared Experiences,
Space for your Thoughts,
Chasing the Monsoon
Coal: A Human History
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Century
Animal Architecture
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures,
240
256
533
480
480
292
272
448
400
224
273
320
672
306
144
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, and h
Mr Tompkins inside himself: Adventures in the new biology,
Mr. Tompkins learns the facts of life
Mr. Tompkins in Paperback
The New World of Mr. Tompkins
274
116
186
272
Gamow, George
Gardner, Martin; Ravielli,
Anthony
Gardner, Martin
Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of
Quantum Theory
Relativity for the Million
240
Science - Good, Bad, and Bogus: a skeptical look at extraordinary claims…
412
1993
1996
2004
2007, ISBN 0812973402
St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996. ISBN 978-
0312141042
1988 ISBN 0060972378
2007, ISBN 1890926108
Broadway Books, ISBN 0767906004. fiction fiction fiction
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006. ASIN
B000UEX0DU
ISBN: 0156075202
UPA Press, ISBN 0-8122-1608-3;
ISBN 0812220315
Macmillan Co., 1946
Viking Press, 1967
Cambridge University Press, 1953
Cambridge University Press, 1993,
ISBN 0-521-44771-2
Cambridge University Press, 2001
(revised and updated edition), ISBN 0-
521-63992-1
Dover Publications, 1985. ISBN 978-
0486248950
Harper & Brothers, 1962. ISBN 978-
0025425408
Prometheus Books, 1990. ISBN 978-
0879755737
Animal homes beyond elementary school
;

Garfield, Simon
Garrett, Laurie
Gaviola, Sandra
Gawande, Atwul
Gendersen, P. Erik
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That
Changed the World
The Coming Plague Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
My Pocket Mentor: A Health Care Professional’s
Guide to Success
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect
Science
The Handy Physics Answer Book
242
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gleick, James
Gold, Thomas K.; Dyson,
Freeman
Goldsmith, Barbara
Gonick, Larry
Gonick, Larry
Blink: The power of thinking without thinking
Outliers: The Story of Success
320
336
The Tipping Point: How Little Things can make 301
Difference
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman 531
Deep, Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels 264
Obsessive Genius: The inner world of Marie Curie 256
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry 256
The Cartoon Guide to Physics 224
768
256
269
450
Goodstein, David
Gornick, Vivian
Gottlieb, Lori
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay;
Purcell, Rosamond
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil 144
Women in Science: 100 Journeys into the Territory 172
Stick Figure
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and
Ideas
240
256
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural history 544
Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural
History
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in natural history
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Finders Keepers: Eight Collectors
159
496
480
288
192
Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to
Darwin
Hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox:
256
266
Discovery of analine dyes. More interesting than it sounds
2004. ISBN: 1401835082
Visible Ink Press, 1998. ISBN 978-
1578590582
Vintage, 1993.
Pulitzer, Polk and Peabody prize
Harper Perennial, 1991. ISBN 978-
0062731005
Touchstone Books, 1990. ISBN 978-
0671695927
Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0684863588
W. W. Norton, 1987. ISBN 0-393-
02492-X
W. W. Norton, 1991. ISBN 978-0-393-
02961-1 . 540 pp.
Arno Press, 2000. ISBN 0-405-12751-
0
About Marie Curie
New York: Harmony Books, ISBN 0-
517-70393-9
W. W. Norton, 1993. ISBN 0-393-
03416-X
W. W. Norton, 1977. ISBN 978-0-393-
06425-4
W. W. Norton, 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-
03054-9
Harmony Books, 1996. ISBN 0-517-
70394-7
Vintage, 2004. ISBN 978-0099440826

Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap
Between Science and the Humanities
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further reflections in natural history
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural
History
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of
Worms
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
416
432
432
520
Punctuated Equilibrium
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness
408
224
256 of Life
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in natural History 480
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
The Mismeasure of Man
384
448
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gould, Stephen Jay
The Panda’s Thumb: More reflections in natural history
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of geological time
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
352
1464
240
352
Gould, Stephen Jay (ed) The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the
Evolution of Life on Earth
Gray, Theodore The Elements: A visual exploration of every know atom in the universe
Green, Dan
Green, Dan; Basher,
Simon
Biology: Life as We Know It!
Physics: Why Matter Matters!
Greene, Brian
Greene, Brian
Greene, Brian
Greenfield, Susan
Greenlaw, Linda
Gribbin, John
Icarus at the Edge of Time
The Elegant Universe
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the
Texture of Reality
The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions,
Consciousness, and the Secret of the Self
256
240
128
128
34
464
592
258
The Hungry Ocean: a swordboat captain’s journey 288
Get a Grip on Physics 192
W. W. Norton, 1983. ISBN 978-0-393-
01716-8
W. W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-
01716-8
Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN
0-674-63940-5
Harvard University Press, 1977. ISBN
0-674-63940-5
2007. ISBN 0-393-02492-X
Harmony Books, 1997. ISBN 0-609-
60541-0
W. W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 978-0-393-
06425-4
W. W. Norton, 1985. ISBN 0-393-
02228-5
W. W. Norton, 2000. ISBN 0-393-
01380-4
W. W. Norton, 1981. ISBN 978-0-
393-31425-0
W. W. Norton, 1980. ISBN 0-393-
01380-4
2002. ISBN 978-0-393-31425-0
Harvard Univ. Press, 1987. ISBN 0-
674-89198-8 online preview
W. W. Norton, 1989. ISBN 0-393-
02705-8 . 347 pp.
W. W. Norton, 1993. ISBN 0-393-
05003-3
1981 National Book Award great pictures of the elements and some good general info
2008. ISBN 978-0-7534-6253-9
2008. ISBN 8-0753462140
Vintage, 2005. ISBN 978-0375727207 a great "picture book" that discusses Einstein's theory of relativity
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York,
2000. ISBN 0-471-18343-1
2000
Barnes & Noble, 2003. ISBN 978-

Groopman, Jerome
Haber, Louis
Hager, Thomas
Hakim, Joy
Hallman, Tom
Halpern, Paul
Hamer, Dean &
Copeland, Peter
Harold, Franklin M.
Hart, Matthew
Hawking, Stephen
Hawking, Stephen
Hawking, Stephen
Hawking, Stephen
Hawking, Stephen
Hawking, Stephen;
Hawking, Lucy; Gary
Parsons
Hawking, Stephen &
Hawking, Lucy
Hawking, Stephen &
Mlodinow, Leonard
Hazen, Robert M.
Heinrich, Bernd
Held, Lewis I. Jr.
Henig, Robin Maranz
Second Opinions
Women Pioneers of Science
The Alchemy of Air: a Jewish Genius, a doomed tycoon, and the scientific discovery that fed the world, but fueled the rise of Hitler
The Story of Science: Aristotle leads the way
256
171
336
0760737484
2001. ISBN: 0140298622
1979. ISBN 978-0152992026
The Haber-Bosch process, humanized
256
Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask
What's Science Ever Done for Us: What The
Simpsons Can Teach Us about Physics, Robots,
Life and the Universe
Living with Our Genes: Why they matter more than you think
240
272
368
The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the
Order of Life
320
Diamond: The History of Cold Blooded Love Affair 288
A Brief History of Time 224
A Briefer History of Time 176
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays 192
On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of
Physics and Astronomy
The Universe in a Nutshell
1280
224
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt 320
George's Secret Key to the Universe
The Grand Design
304
280
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
368
432
Quirks of Human Anatomy: An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body
272
The Monk in the Garden: The lost and found genius 304
2003. ISBN: 0425191745
Wiley, 2007. ASIN B001BRYZBQ
Random House, Inc. 1998. ISBN 0-
385-48584-0
2002
Bantam Press,1988. ISBN
055305340X
Bantam Books, 2005. ISBN
0553804367
Bantam Books, 1993. ISBN
0553374117
Running Press, 2002. ISBN
076241698X
Bantam Press, 2001. ISBN
055380202X
(Simon & Schuster, 2009) ISBN
9781416986713
(Random House, 2007) ISBN
9780385612708
Bantam Press, 2010. ISBN
0553805371
2007
2009
2001 is not only educational and informative, but also interesting. She is a remarkable story teller and each story is from the vantage of the scientists of that period and how their personal life intersected with the discoveries of the time. You can get a perspective of how science keeps building on past discoveries.
A survey of the advances in scientific understanding about the nature of life since Schrödinger's time.
Animal Behavior
An Evo-Devo look at the human body - and its many "poorly designed" features; a bit technical, but light-hearted

Heron, Echo
Herbert, Frank
Hickam, Homer
Highfield, Roger of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse.
Dune
Rocket Boys
The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey
The Same and Not the Same Hoffmann, Roald
Kaplan, Michael &
Kaplan, Ellen
Karukstis, Kerry K. &
Hecke, Gerald R. Van
Chances Are: Adventures in Probability
Chemistry Connections: The Chemical Basis of
Everyday Phenomena (2nd Ed)
294
Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hopwood, David Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The
Antibiotic Makers
832
272
Journey to the Ants: A story of scientific exploration 304 Holldobler, Bert & Wilson,
E.O.
Horner, Jack; Gorman,
James
Humes, Edward
How to build a Dinosaur: The new science of reverse evolution
Baby ER : The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who
Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
256
336
Huxley, Aldous
Impey, Chris & Hartmann,
William
Isaacson, Walter
Isdell, Wendy
Jaffee, Bernard
Janse, Allison & Gerba,
Charles
Johnson, B. K.
Johnson, Steven
Brave New World
The Universe Revealed
Einstein: his life and the universe
A Gebra Named Al
Crucibles, the Story of Chemistry from ancient alchemy to nuclear fission
The Germ Freak's Guide to Outwitting Colds and
Flu : Guerilla Tactics to Keep Yourself Healthy at
Home, at Work and in the World
Optics and Optical Instruments
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s most terrifying Epidemic
259
512
704
128
384
194
256
320
Judson, Horace Freel 686
Justice, Blair
Kakalios, James
Kaku, Michio
Kamkwambe, William
The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the revolution in Biology
Who Gets Sick – How Beliefs, Moods and Thoughts
Affect Your Health,
The Physics of Superheroes
Einstein's Cosmos
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
464
364
272
288
336
250
384
517
384
Mass Market Paperback, ISBN
0804102511.
1965
2000
Back Bay Books, 1999. ISBN 978-
0316366953
Columbia University Press, 1995. 0-
231-10138-4
Basic Books, 1999.
1998
Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN
0743264436
Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1999. ISBN
978-0534248932
2007
1993
1976
2005, ISBN: 0757303277
Touted as the best science fiction book ever written.
This collection of essays about the nature and practice of chemistry is as rich and diverse as the subject itself.
Written by an eighth grader
A history of the beginnings of atomic theory. one of my all time favorites - an easy read even for my more "average" students
Dover, 1960. ISBN 978-0486606422
2007 a meticulously researched book about the 1854 London cholera outbreak
1979
Park Printing; ISBN 0960537678
Gotham, 2009. ISBN 1592405088
Viking, 2006. ISBN 0670034878
2003 about a boy from Malawi who teaches himself and then builds a wind turbine to bring electricity and irrigation to his family and village

Kasper, Joseph E. &
Feller, Steven A.
Kean, Sam
Kehret, Peg
Keyes, Daniel
Kluger, Richard
Kozima, Hideo
Krakauer, Jon
Krauss, Lawrence M.
Krauss, Lawrence M.
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Kumar, Manjit
Kurlansky, Mark
Kurlansky, Mark
Kuzrweil, Ray
Lane, Nick
Lane, Nick
Lane, Nick
Larson, Erik & Cline,
Isaac Monroe
Le Couteur, Penny
Lederman, Leon with Dick
Teresi
Lederman, Leon
The Complete Book of Holograms: How They Work and How to Make Them
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of
Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Flowers for Algernon
224
416
224
286
811 Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette
War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed
Triumph of Philip Morris
The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomena: In
Search of the Physics and Chemistry behind
Complex Experimental Data Sets
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount
Everest Disaster
Fear of Physics
208
288
288
The Physics of Star Trek
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
280
226
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the nature of radioactivity.
448
Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world 294
Salt: A World History 498
How to Create a Mind: The secret of human thought revealed
317
Life Ascending: the ten great inventions of evolution 344
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world 384
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest
Hurricane in History
368
336
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed
History
384
The God Particle: If the Universe is the answer, what is the question?
From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery
410
242
Dover Publications, 2001. ISBN 978-
0486415802
Little, Brown & Co. 2010, ISBN 978-
0316-05164-4
2006, ISBN 0807574597
Bantam Books, New York 1966. ISBN
0-553-27450-3
First Vintage Books, 1997. ISBN 0-
394-57076-6
Elsevier Science, 2006. ISBN 978-
0080451107
Perseus Books, 1993. ISBN 0-465-
02367-3
Basic Books, 2007. ISBN 978-
0465002047
Books LLC, 2009. ISBN 978-
1443255448
It puts a face on all the people in your chemistry text.
2003
2012 ISBN 9780143124047 Penguin
Books
2006 Aventis Prize Finalist 2006
2000
ISBN 0618711686
1995
The author has retold history from the perspective of 17 groups of molecules and how important they were in the formation of civilization.
… start with the simple alloys (bronze) and gold and you can quickly appreciate the importance of some raw materials. It is when you add the influence of salt supplies, dyes, synthetic rubber, etc. that the stories become very interesting

Lederman, Leon
Lederman, Leon
Lee, Laura
Leighton, Ralph
Leopold, Aldo
Levi, Primo
Levy, David
Lewis, Arthur
Lightman, Alan
Lightman, Alan
Portraits of Great American Scientists
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe
100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life
Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s last journey
A Sand County Almanac: With essays on conservation
The Periodic Table
Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-
Levy 9
The Struggle Between Science and Superstition
Einstein's Dreams
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-
Century Science
Degrees Kelvin: A tale of genius, invention, and tradegy
Kill as Few Patients as Possible.
Lindley, David
London, Oscar
392
120
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad
Lorenz, Konrad with
Leyhausen, Paul
Lorenz, Konrad with
Martys, Michael & Tipler,
Angelika
Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of
Human Knowledge
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins
Evolution and Modification of Behaviour
King Solomon’s Ring
Man Meets Dog
On Aggression
The Foundations of Ethology
The Year of the Greylag Goose
Motivation of Human and Animal Behavior: An
Ethological View
Here Am I - Where Are You? - The Behavior of the
Greylag Goose
Louv, Richard The Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder
Louw, G.N. & Seely, M.K. Ecology of Desert Organisms
Lucas, Jerry
Macdonald, Anne
Macinnis, Peter
390
200
The Great Unsolved Mysteries of Science
Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors
224
540
Changed America
Poisons: From hemlock to botox to the killer bean of 256
261
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128
224
224
334
404
199
480
270
300
363
240
260
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241
304
198
144
592
2001
2008
ISBN 0-7679-1716-2
1991 ISBN 0-393-32069-3
Ballantine Books, 1990. ASIN
B001HZJCL0
2003
Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN 978-
1149555903
Random House, 1992. ISBN 0-446-
67011-1
ISBN-13: 978-0375421686
978-0309096188 Joseph Henry
Press
Ten Speed Press; 10th edition (May
1987) ISBN: 089815197X
1973
1974
1965
1949
1950
1966
1982
1979
D. Van Nostrand Co., 1973. ISBN 0-
442-24886-5
1988. ISBN 0151400563
About the author and his friend Richard Feynman's attempt to travel to
Tuva.
a classic often sited even today. presents some ideas about time that most students have not considered
2008
1982
1993 ISBN 1558702911
Random House, 1992. ISBN 0-345-
38314-1
2005
Long but provocative
A slim volume describing different strategies for surviving in the desert.
Good for kids who like reptiles.

Maddox, Brenda
Mann, Charles C.
Manning, Greg calabar
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus
Love, Greg and Lauren
416
541
352
Maples, William R. &
Browning Michael
March, Robert
Margulis, Lynn; Sagan,
Dorian
Masoff, Joy
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Physics for Poets
What is Life ?
Oh, Yuck--the Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
Mayr, Ernst and Diamond,
Jared
McCutchen, Marc
McGee, Harold
McGrayne, Sharon
McKibben, Bill
McKibben, Bill
McPhee, John
McPhee, John
Mehren, Elizabeth,
Michels, Dia & Levy,
Nathan
Michener, James
Miller, Jonathan & Loon,
Borin Van
Miller, Kenneth
What Evolution Is
The Compass in Your Nose and other Astonishing
Facts about Humans
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the
Kitchen
Prometheans in the Lab
The End of Nature
Hope, Human, and Wild: True stories of living lightly on the Earth
Annals of the Former World
The Pine Barrens
712
157
Born Too Soon 320
101 Things Everyone Should Know About Science 160
Alaska
Darwin for Beginners
226
192
896
224
224
232
896
176
368
Miller, Kenneth R.
Miller, Peter
Finding Darwin's God: A scientists search for common ground between God and evolution
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for
America's Soul
The Smart Swarm
256
336
Mitchinson, John
Mlodinow, Leonard
The Book of Animal Ignorance : Everything You
Think You Know Is Wrong
Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in
Physics and in Life
256
176
304
304
303
224
2006
Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd
Pap); Updated edition (August 13,
2002) ISBN: 055338189X
McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 978-
0072472172
2000
Workman Publishing Co., 2000. ISBN
07611-0771-1
Great for a unit on anatomy or forensic science.
National Medal of Science, 1999
Crafoord Prize, 1999
1989 ISBN 0874775442
978-0071407953 McGraw-Hill
2000
1978
1998 ISBN 1575663155.
Science, Naturally, 2009. ISBN 978-0-
9678020-5-3
2002
2003
2007
Vignettes from the history of chemistry.
Examines the damage that human civilization has done to the planet
Offers examples and hope for a sustainable future
A fictional book about Alaska starting with the wooly mammoth
2009
Warner Books, 2003. ISBN 0-446-
53045-X
Kenneth R. Miller is the co-author of a popular Biology text
Crown, 2008. ISBN 978-0307394934
The behavior of animal swarms, schools, and colonies hold lessons for technology and design
A great story about Feynman at Caltech

Mlodinow, Leonard
Monmonier, Mark
Montross, Christine
Moon, Elizabeth
Morowitz, Harold
Morowitz, Harold
Morris, Richard
Morton, Alexandra
Muir, John
Muir, John
Muller, Richard A.
Murray, Raymond Leroy
& Menke, Kristin L.
Nagami, Pamela
Noble, Iris
Packham, Chris
Parker, Steve
Parsons, Paul (ed)
Peat, F. David
Pellegrino, Charles
Petroski, Henry
Petroski, Henry
Pickover, Clifford A.
Pigliucci, Massimo
Pink, Daniel
Pinker, Stephen
Plait, Philip C.
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our
Lives
Air Apparent: How meteorologists learned to map, predict, and dramatize weather
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the
Human Anatomy Lab
The Speed of Dark
Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life: Thoughts of
Minds and Molecules
Thermodynamics of Pizza
The Edges of Science: Crossing the Boundary from
Physics to Metaphysics
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught
Us
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
Travels in Alaska
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind
The Headlines
Understanding Radioactive Waste
272
324
320
369
244
247
320
272
172
384
256
The Woman with a Worm in her Head: and other
True Stories of infectious diseases
Contemporary Women Scientists of America
The Practical Naturalist
The Human Body Book
30-Second Theories: The 50 most thoughtprovoking theories in science, each explained in half a minute
Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into the Native
American Universe
325
The Last Train from Hiroshima 367
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering 304
To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in
Successful Design
272
Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives Of
Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
352
Nonsense on Stilts : How to Tell Science from Bunk 336
A Whole New Mind
Blank Slate: The modern denial of human nature
Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses
275
528
288
288
158
256
256
Vintage, 2009. ISBN 978-0307275172
2000
2007, ISBN 1594201250
Del Rey 2002
1991
Science Fiction; using surgery to cure autism and what is means
1992
Prentice Hall,1992. ISBN 978-
0671767464
Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN 978-
0345442888
2007
2011
W. W. Norton & Co., 2009. ISBN 978-
0393337112
Battelle Press, 2003. ISBN 978-
1574771350
2002. ISBN: 0312306016
Messner, 1979. ISBN 0671329200
978-0756658991 DK Publishing 2010
Dorling Kindersley, 2007. ISBN
9781405316255
Sterling Publishing, 2009. ISBN
9781435109568
2005. ISBN 1-57863-371-0 really amazing story! can be used as a text book but is very readable
Vintage, 2005. ISBN 978-1400032945
First hand accounts of the atomic bomb drop in Hiroshima
Vintage, 1992. ISBN 978-0679734161
HarperCollins, 1999. ISBN 0-688-
16894-9
U Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN 978-
0226667867
2003
2002 about all the strange scientists who came up with some extraordinary ideas, definitely begs the question If they had been medicated, would they have made their discoveries? (Likely not!) includes frequent references to intelligent design and climate change critics
Pulitzer and Aventis Prize Finalist 2003

Pollan, Michael
Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing
"Hoax"
In Defense of Food 244
Pollan, Michael
Pollan, Michael
Porter, Winton
Postman, Neil
Preston, Diana
The Botany of Desire: A Plants Eye View of the
World
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Just Passin’ Thru
271
411
248
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to
Technology
240
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima 416
Preston, Richard
Preston, Richard
The Cobra Event
The Demon in the Freezer
Preston, Richard The Hot Zone
Price, George MaCready Q.E.D. or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
Prothero, Donald R.
Quammen, David; Bilger,
Burkhard
Quammen, David
422
304
330
144
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters 408
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
(ed.)
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the
Jungles of History and the Mind
320
528
Quammen, David 352
Quammen, David
Quammen, David
Quammen, David
Quammen, David
Quammen, David
Quammen, David
Quammen, David
Raymo, Chet
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and
Nature
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the
Beholder;
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of
Science and Nature
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of
Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of
Evolution (Great Discoveries)
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an
Age of Extinctions
The Soul of Viktor Tronko
The Zolta Configuration
Wild Thoughts From Wild Places
Walking Zero : Discovering Cosmic Space and
Time Along the PRIME MERIDIAN
288
320
304
704
350
352
304
208
Reed, Evelyn
Reeves, Richard
Revees-Stevens,
Garfield; Reyees-
Sexism and Science
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest
Rutherford (Great Discoveries)
Icefire
223
208
736
2002
ISBN 9780143038580
Vintage, 1993. ISBN 978-0679745402 a great study of the Western diseases (Type II Diabetes, heart disease, etc.) and their causes. Warning: This book will make you change how you look at food, but in a good way. the evolution of plants with human help. The chapter on apples alone is worth the price of the book.
Walker & Co., 2005. ISBN
9780802714459
ISBN 0679457143
Qontro, 2010. ASIN: B003YJES84
2007
2000
W.W. Norton and Co., 2003. ISBN 0-
393-32609-8
Avon Books reprint 1996. ISBN 0-380-
71738-7
Scribner, 2001. ISBN 0-7432-0032-2 has a classic essay on the importance of mosquitoes in preserving wild places, entitled "Sympathy for the Devil."
Scribner, 1988. ISBN 0-684-83626-2
2006, W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-
05981-2
An interesting account of Darwin’s personal life and struggles to finish
Origin of the Species.
Scribner, 1996 (reprinted 1997). ISBN
0-684-82712-3
1987.
1983.
Scribner, 1999. ISBN 0-684-85208-X
2006 Science history along the Prime Meridian
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1999 Fiction about a tidal wave set off by a nuclear blast

Stevens, Judith
Reynolds, Albert B.
Ridley, Matt
Ridley, Matt
Riesman, Michael
Roach, Mary
Roach, Mary
Rosenblum, Bruce
Royston, Robert
Russell, Franklin
Rutherford, F. James
Rybczynski, Witold
Sabbagh, Karl
Sachs, Jessica Snyder
Sacks, Oliver
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl & Agel,
Jerome
Sagan, Carl & Druyan,
Ann
Sagan, Carl & Druyan,
Ann
Sagan, Carl & Druyan,
Bluebells and Nuclear Energy
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23
Chapters
The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature
Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper
302
352
416
320
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Live in the Void
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters
Consciousness
Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science
Watchers at the Pond
Science For All Americans: Project 2061
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the
Screwdriver and the Screw
336
304
304
288
264
272
176
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
Good Germs, Bad Germs: health and Survival in a
296
304
Bacterial World
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood 352
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of
Science
416
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Contact
Cosmos
428
448
324
Other Worlds: Is there life out there?
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in
Space
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the
Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Connection: An
Extraterrestrial Perspective
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Comet, Revised
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288
334
320
432
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who 528
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2003
Dutton Children’s Books, 2008. ISBN
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W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. ISBN 978-
0393068474
OUP, 2008. ISBN 978-0195342505
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Ballantine Books, 1979, ISBN 0-345-
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MIT Press, 1973
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Random House New Edition, 2002.
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Bantam Books, 1975
Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-679-
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Ballantine Books, March 1996, ISBN
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Ballantine Books, 1978, ISBN 0-345-
34629-7
Anchor Press, 1973, ISBN 0-521-
78303-8
Ballantine Books, 1997, ISBN 0-345-
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Ballantine Books, 1985, ISBN 0-345-
41222-2
Ballantine Books, October 1993, ISBN
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Fiction
About cadavers

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Sagan, Carl & Shklovskii,
I.S.
Sagan, Carl & Turco,
Richard
Sagan, Carl et al
We Are
Intelligent Life in the Universe 509
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race
499
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record 273
Sagan, Carl et al
Sagan, Carl; Druyan, Ann
(ed)
Salisbury, Gay; Salisbury,
Laney
Sayre, Anne
Scherer, Stewart
The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear
War
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal
View of the Search for God - 1985 Gifford lectures
The Cruelest Miles: The heroic story of dogs and men in the race against an epidemic
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Short Guide to the Human Genome
Schlager, Neil
Schmidt-Nielson, Knut
Schneider, Andrew &
McCumber, David
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304
320
240
173
Science of Everyday Things : Real Life Biology 448
The Camel’s Nose: Memoirs of a Curious Scientist 349
An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of
Libby, Montana Uncovered a National Scandal
434
Schneider, Norman Hugh Induction Coils: How to Make, Use, and Repair
Them
Schrodinger, Erwin
Schwarcz, Joe
What is Life? Mind and Matter
An Apple A Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and
Truths About the Foods We Eat
Schwarcz, Joe
Schwarcz, Joe
Schwarcz, Joe
Schwarcz, Joe
Brain Fuel: 199 Mind-Expanding Inquiries into the
Science of Everyday Life
Hungary: where salami is a vegetable."
Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life
Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible
Schwarcz, Joe
Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of
Everyday Life
The Right Chemistry: 108 Enlightening, Nutritious,
Health-Conscious and Occasionally Bizarre
Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life.
Schwarcz, Joe
Schwarcz, Joe
Schwarcz, Joe
Science, Sense & Nonsense
That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New
Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of
Everyday Life
The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating
Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life
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Random House, 1990, ISBN 0-394-
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Ballantine Books, 1979. ISBN 978-
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Penguin Press HC, 2006, ISBN 1-
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W. W. Norton & Co., 2005, ISBN
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,
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Gale, 2002. ISBN 978-0787656348
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004.
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Fascinating story. Compelling characters (good guys and bad guys).
True and horrible. I read it with a freshman college non-majors biology class and they loved it
Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN 978-
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2007, ISBN 978-0-00-200764-1
Nobel Prize Winner, 1933
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Doubleday Canada, 2012,
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2009, ISBN 978-0385666046
2004, ISBN 1-55022-520-0
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Schwartz, Joseph &
McGuinness, Michael
Selinger, Ben
Sell, Colleen
Shames, Laurence &
Barton, Peter
Shermer, Michael
Shubin, Neil
Silverstein, Ken
Singer, Nicky
Singh, Simon
Singh, Simon
Skloot, Rebecca
Smith, Walter Fox
Sobel, Dava
Sobel, Dava
Solomon, Susan
Standage, Tom
Standiford, Les
Stegner, Wallace
Stephens, Trent
Stewart, Ian
Walker, Gabrielle
Strathern, Paul
Suzuki, David
The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
Einstein for Beginners
320
176
Chemistry in the Marketplace
A Cup of Comfort for Nurses: Stories of Caring And
Compassion
Not Fade Away: A short life well lived
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience,
Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year
History of the Human Body
The Radioactive Boy Scout
Gem X
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from
Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
256
209
311
432
560
608
336
224
384
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Waves and Oscillations : A Prelude to Quantum
Mechanics
Galileo's Daughter: A historical memoir of Science,
Faith, and Love
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who
Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Coldest March: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic
Expedition
The Neptune Files: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the spectacular rise and fall of the railroad that crossed an ocean
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley
Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Dark Remedy: The impact of thalidomide and its revival as a vital medicine
Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into...
Snowball Earth: The Story of a maverick scientist and his theory of a global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it.
Mendeleev's Dream: the quest for elements
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our place in
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2009
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2011
OUP, 2010. ISBN 978-0195393491
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2007
2002
Berkley Trade Books, 2001. ISBN
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2003 all about how easily people can be fooled and includes arguments made against evolution and the holocaust and how they are similar a great study of the origins of our body parts. Great for those students that want to argue evolution. This puts evolution in a whole new light.
The PBS movie of this was outstanding.
Penguin Books, 1954. ISBN 01-401-
5994-0
2001
1992
2004
2007 Member of the Order of Canada

Swartz, Evan
Syed, Matthew
Sykes, Bryan
Thomas, Lewis
Thomas, Lewis
Thorpe, T.E.
Timbrell, John nature
The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Beckam and the science of success
Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that reveals our genetic ancestry
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a biology watcher
The Medusa and the Snail: more notes from a biology watcher
Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher
The Poison Paradox: Chemicals as Friends and
Foes
The Secret Life of Plants
352
312
320
153
192
262
368
Tompkins, Peter & Bird,
Christopher
Trefil, James
Tucker, Tommy N.
Tucker, William
Tyson, Neil Degrasse
101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No
One Else Does Either
Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite
Hoax
Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy
Odyssey
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s
Favorite Planet
416
368
297
420
194
Underhill, Paco
Verghese, Abraham
Verma, Surendra
Verma, Surendra
Verma, Surendra
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
My Own Country. A Doctor's Story
The Cause of Mosquitoes’ Sorrow: Beginnings,
Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science
The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories, &
Things
Why Aren't They Here? The Question of Life on
Other Worlds
320
432
256
224
240
Von Baeyer, Hans
Christian
Verne, Jules
Waltar, Alan E.
Passes: The History of Heat Warmth Disperses and
Time
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Voter, Thomas (illustrator) Everybody's Encyclopedia of Popular Science: 861
Questions – 4000 Facts Simply told - graphically shown
Walker, Pam & Wood,
Elaine
Waltar, Alan E.
Crime Scene Investigations: Real-Life Science
Activities for the Elementary Grades
America the Powerless: Facing Our Nuclear Energy
Dilemma
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247
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235
Radiation and Modern Life: Fulfilling Marie Curie’s 336
The story of Philo Farnsworth, the inventory of the television.
2002
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1995
2010
Harper & Row Publishers, New York,
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1997 very interesting, a little slow Perseus Books, 2003. ISBN 1-
891620-70-3
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2009
2008
Vintage. ISBN 0-679-75292-7.
Icon, 2007. ISBN 9781840468311
Sterling, 2006. ISBN 978-1402738708
Totem Books, 2008. ISBN 978-
1840468656
Popular Science Publishing Company,
1947. covers the controversy of the placement of pluto where it belongs with the other icy objects.
1999
Medical Physics Publishing
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Prometheus Books, 2004. ISBN 978-

Watson, James
Dream
The Double Helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
The Diversity of life
The Future of Life
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the
Great California Earthquake of 1906
256
Weinberg, Samantha
Weiner, Jonathan
Weisman, Alan
Wells, Spencer
White, Ryan &
Cunningham, Ann Marie
Widmaier, Eric P.
A fish caught in time: the search for the coelacanth 220
The Beak of the Finch: a story of evolution in our 332 time
The World Without Us
The Journey of Man: A genetic odyssey
Ryan White: My Own Story
Weisman, Alan
Williams, Donna
Williams, Donna
Willis, Christopher
Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do): How
Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our
Everyday Lives
Wiese, Jim Detective Science: 40 Crime-Solving, Case-
Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for Kids
Wiese, Jim & Shems, Ed Spy Science : 40 Secret-Sleuthing, Code-
Cracking,Spy-Catching Activities for Kids
The World Without us
Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic.
Somebody Somewhere
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: the coevolution of
People and Plagues
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224
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128
432
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240
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Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Edward O.
Winchester, Simon
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440
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512
Winchester, Simon
Winchester, Simon
Wolke, Robert
Wright, Ronald
Wynn, Charles M. &
Wiggins, Arthur W.
Zewail, Ahmed
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27,
1883
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the birth of modern geology
What Einstein Told his Cook
A Short History of Progress
The Five Biggest Ideas in Science
464
368
323
224
200
344
Zimmer, Carl
Zimmer, Carl
Zimmer, Carl
Zimmer, Carl
Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel
Prize
At the Water's Edge: Macroeveolution and the
Transformation of Life
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Parasite Rex
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Atheneum Publishers, New York,
1969, ISBN 0-451-62594-3
2001
1995
2008
2004
Signet, ISBN 0451173228
W. H. Freeman, 1999. ISBN 978-
0716736493
1996
1996
2008
Avon Books. ISBN 0380722178.
1998. ISBN 0-679-76867-X
2010
2003
2006
2005
2009
2005
Wiley, 1996. ISBN 978-0471138129
Nobel Prize winner, 1962
On evolution, adventure
Pulitzer Prize 1995, L A Times Book Prize, 1994. Can be a bit deep from time to time but interesting
Students love, but do not find it quite as readable
Kind of deep, but good for advanced students.
1991, Crafoord Prize, 1990
Double Pulitzer Prize Winner 1979,
Kitchen science explained with recipes
L.A.Times Book Prize Finalist, 2008

Zimmerman, Barry &
Zimmerman, David
Zimmerman, Barry &
Zimmerman, David
Zukav, Gary
Killer Germs
Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light…
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An overview of the new physics
272
286
416
1993 ISBN 9780809238217
Contemporary Books
William Morrow, 1979. ISBN 0-688-
03402-0 a great conceptual look at quantum physics, where it came from and where it is going, amazing book