Lists of Bests: starlagurl's "Science books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2132 Partial list from my science journalism class Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:26:26 GMT en-us 0 50 32 0 0 Chaos: Making a New Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2584 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2584"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140092501.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Gleick</div> Genome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1346 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1346"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060932902.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704983 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704983"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0716730278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynn Margulis</div> The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91542 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91542"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684838613.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465559_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Ferris</div> The Insect Societies (Harvard Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388284 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705010 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465024378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122544058_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Weinberg</div> In the Shadow of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430471 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618056769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Goodall</div> Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465026567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> The Hot Zone : A Terrifying True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10273 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10273"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385479565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by RICHARD PRESTON</div> The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18758 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973337X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Weiner</div> The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1468 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060958332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Society of Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17934 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17934"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671657135.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marvin Minsky</div> Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10888 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10888"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393316041.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> The Making of the Atomic Bomb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684813785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div> Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56500 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56500"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345345053.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldo Leopold</div> Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10807 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10807"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393308189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> Naturalist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13268 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13268"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446671991.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705058 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705058"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879694785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503951_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace Freeland Judson</div> Science the Endless Frontier (Three Centuries of Science in America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705101 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vannevar Bush</div> The art of the soluble http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/642311 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. B Medawar</div> The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11746 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11746"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415278449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Popper</div> The Two Cultures (Canto) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68270 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68270"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521457300.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. P. Snow</div> Science and Human Values http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/208997 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/208997"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060972815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob Bronowski</div> Lives of a Cell, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74959 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553275801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Thomas</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4732 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4732"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0201500647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> The Origin of Species, Revised Edition (Abridged) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287627 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074321630X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> The Selfish Gene http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2360725 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2360725"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0199291144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65742954_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div>