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starlagurl's "Science books"

Partial list from my science journalism class
1. Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
  
2. Genome
by Matt Ridley
  
3. Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
by Lynn Margulis
  
4. The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
by Timothy Ferris
  
5.
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 The Insect Societies (Harvard Paperbacks)
by Edward O. Wilson
  
6. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Steven Weinberg
  
7. In the Shadow of Man
by Jane Goodall
  
8. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  
9. The Hot Zone : A Terrifying True Story
by RICHARD PRESTON
  
10. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins
  
11. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
  
12. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
by Steven Pinker
  
13. Society of Mind
by Marvin Minsky
  
14. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
  
15. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
  
16. Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold
  
17. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
  
18. Naturalist
by Edward O. Wilson
  
19. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
by Horace Freeland Judson
  
20.
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 Science the Endless Frontier (Three Centuries of Science in America)
by Vannevar Bush
  
21.
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 The art of the soluble
by P. B Medawar
  
22. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics)
by Karl Popper
  
23. The Two Cultures (Canto)
by C. P. Snow
  
24. Science and Human Values
by Jacob Bronowski
  
25. Lives of a Cell, The
by Lewis Thomas
  
26. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
27. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set
by Richard P. Feynman
  
28. The Origin of Species, Revised Edition (Abridged)
by Charles Darwin
  
29. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein
  
30. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
31. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
  
32. The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
  
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Created by starlagurl on Mar 26, 2006.