Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Science Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58625 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:29:24 GMT en-us 0 50 90 50 0 The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18758 <div id="position">1</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> An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18985 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679756973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2210670 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim and Kluger Jeffrey Lovell</div> The Genius and the Goddess http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2060107 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Genie: a Scientific Tragedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1224 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1224"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060924659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414479_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russ Rymer</div> The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7825 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7825"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345409469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> Sleep Thieves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256951 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256951"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684831848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465516_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Coren</div> Return to Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3906805 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Buzz Aldrin</div> Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980424 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980424"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226729540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Rothstein</div> The Beauty of the Beastly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/441910 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/441910"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395791472.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natalie Angier</div> The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19337 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19337"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684827123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083196792_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Quammen</div> Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18906 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18906"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679747567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Tenner</div> Virus of the Mind:: The New Science of the Meme http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28386 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28386"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0963600125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brodie</div> Cosmic Collisions Scientific American http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5350729 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dana Desonie</div> Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/878433 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/878433"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039332947X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Bryant Logan</div> A Tour of the Calculus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18908 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18908"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679747885.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Berlinski</div> The Minds of Birds (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/571839 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/571839"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0890966710.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander F. Skutch</div> Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2827018 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph B McCormick</div> The Enchanted World of Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/775226 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/775226"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300074360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peretz Lavie</div> Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19042 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Weschler</div> Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7689 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7689"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345376595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1667316 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Shepard</div> On the Track of Unknown Animals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5530161 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Heuvelmans</div> The Last Panda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2142202 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2142202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226736296.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George B. Schaller</div> War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1948558 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1948558"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195119126.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence H. Keeley</div> The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19037 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19037"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464997_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Wright</div> Inside The Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317829 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317829"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0836232895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kotulak</div> In Search of Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388286 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388286"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/155963216X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51323 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51323"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316116106.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Burke</div> Climbing Mount Improbable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10894 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10894"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393316823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5566253 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5566253"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418YGWS2SNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geerat Vermeij</div> Book of the Spider http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5603517 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5603517"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PPWF1NXVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Hillyard</div> Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/582741 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/582741"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520203542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wolfgang Schivelbusch</div> Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081007 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380730782.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald S. Johnson</div> Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2506904 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2506904"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080271529X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45112808_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> Technology In the Ancient World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148270 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Hodges</div> Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4280698 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4280698"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SGS5DBE7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tijs Goldschmidt</div> Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2457548 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2457548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0870816713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056502307_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony F. Aveni</div> On Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388285 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388285"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674016386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345346297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59535 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich</div> At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4431 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195111303.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Kauffman</div> First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/104929 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/104929"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812991850.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Preston</div> The Language of Tears http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2963497 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2963497"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01TMYD9QD7L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey A. Kottler</div> Tyranny of the Normal: Essays on Bioethics, Theology & Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017234 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567920039.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Fiedler</div> Asteroid: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1577565 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1577565"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/073820885X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Barnes-Svarney</div> Ablaze!: The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2540451 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2540451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871317893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056502404_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry E. Arnold</div> Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27418 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27418"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0887308856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David D. Friedman</div> Rats, Lice and History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5454702 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5454702"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41g8m1fLirL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans Zinsser</div> The Case for Mars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19385 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19385"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684835509.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Zubrin</div>