Lists of Bests: Fish Creek Library Calgary Public Library's "Science and Nature" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/28520 A list of books relating to science. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:34:46 GMT en-us 0 50 19 0 0 The Medici Giraffe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1698582 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1698582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316525650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42288293_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marina Belozerskaya</div> King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1803633 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1803633"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802714994.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Siobhan Roberts</div> The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/570156 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/570156"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618551050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lee Smolin</div> Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2309954 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2309954"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300112637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hugh Trevor-Roper</div> Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639033 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639033"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385509936.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet A. Washington</div> Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World's Poorest Patients http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2264050 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2264050"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565849124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sonia Shah</div> Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763953 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763953"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385511043.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara J. King</div> Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668537 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151011087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Todd</div> Sailing With Noah: Stories from the World of Zoos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763978 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0826216374.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey P. Bonner</div> Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/873352 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/873352"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060845538.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Cadbury</div> Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons In the Lives of Migratory Birds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763980 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763980"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802715184.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45110181_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miyoko Chu</div> Noise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2648682 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bart Kosko</div> Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2553287 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2553287"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033861.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Seth Lloyd</div> The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1699265 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1699265"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345496094.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sy Montgomery</div> Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation ofAppalachia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742036 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594482365.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44212327_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Reece</div> Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772178 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805083189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45129171_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Safina</div> The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811832 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811832"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400050367.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Tudge</div> The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/381716 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/381716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590172167.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46475795_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Freeman Dyson</div> Einstein: His Life and Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964451 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964451"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743264738.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43351767_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Isaacson</div>