Author |
Title |
Nomination |
| Edwin A. Abbott |
Flatland: A Romance of Many
Dimensions |
Lee Grodzins |
Diane Ackerman
|
An Alchemy of the Mind |
Staff |
Thomas J. Allen, Jim P. Brock, Jeffrey Glassberg
|
Caterpillars in the Field and Garden |
Jocelyn Hubbell |
| Richard B. Alley |
The Two-Mile Time Machine:
Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future |
Phi Beta Kappa 2001 |
| Philip Ball |
Stories of the Invisible:
A Guided Tour of Molecules |
Staff, Booklist, SB&F 2002 |
Robert D. Ballard with
Will Hively |
The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep Sea Exploration |
Staff |
| David Baron |
The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
| John D. Barrow |
The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas
About the Origins of the Universe |
Staff |
| Marcia Bartusiak |
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony |
AIPSci.- Journalist 2001 |
Yvonne Baskin |
The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us |
Walter Rosen |
Chris Beard |
The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey:
Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans |
History of Science Society Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science |
| Michael Benson |
Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes |
Booklist 2004, Staff |
| David Berlinski |
The Advent of the Algorithm:
The Idea That Rules the World |
Staff |
Kai Bird
and Martin J. Sherwin
|
American Prometheus:
The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer |
Booklist 2005 Top of the List winner |
| Ira B. Black |
The Dying of Enoch Wallace:
Life, Death, and the Changing Brain
|
Staff |
David Bodanis |
Electric Universe:
The Shocking True Story of Electricity |
Linda Oliver, CML Reference Librarian,
Aventis Prize for General Science 2006
|
| David Bodanis |
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation |
Staff |
David Bodanis |
The Secret Family: Twenty-four
Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies |
Linda Oliver, CML Reference Librarian |
Daniel B. Botkin
|
Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West
from Lewis and Clark to Today |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2004 |
| Andrew Brown |
In the Beginning was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life
in a Tiny Hermaphrodite |
Staff |
Edward B. Burger &
Michael Starbird |
Coincidences,
Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas |
Staff,
Library Journal's Best Science & Technology Books 2005 |
Edited by David Burnie & Don E. Wilson |
Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife |
School Library Journal 11/2001, Amazon Best Books 2001 |
Chandler Burr |
The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and
the Last Mystery of the Senses |
Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science&
Technology 2004,
Patron |
William H. Calvin |
A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate
Change |
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science 2002 |
Sean B. Carroll |
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2004 |
Sean B. Carroll |
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic
Record of Evolution |
Linda Oliver |
Brian Cathcart
|
The Fly in
the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the
International Race to Split the Atom |
ALA Best Books 2006 |
Richard Corfield |
The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of the HMS Challenger |
LJ Sept. 2003 |
Penny Le Couteur &
Jay Burreson |
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
| Deborah Cramer |
Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage |
Staff |
| Antonio R. Damasio |
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making
of Consciousness |
NY Times Best Booklist 1999 |
Richard Dawkins |
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution |
Staff |
| Richard Dawkins |
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals
a Universe Without Design |
Staff |
| Richard Dawkins |
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science,
and Love |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
| Richard Dawkins |
The Selfish Gene |
Staff |
John Derbyshire |
Prime Obsession |
John Smith |
| Marq De Villiers |
Water: The Fate of our Most Precious Resource |
Staff |
| Jared Diamond |
Guns,
Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
Aventis Prize for General Science 1998 |
| Ronald W. Doerfler |
Dead Reckoning:
Calculating Without Instruments |
Staff |
| Rene Dubos |
So Human an Animal |
Staff |
| Paul Ehrlich & Anne Ehrlich |
One With Nineveh:
Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future |
Library Journal Best Books 2004, ALA Notable Non-Fiction
Book 2005 |
Albert Einstein,
translation by Robert W. Lawson |
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory:
A Popular Exposition |
Staff |
| Thomas Eisner |
For Love of Insects |
Booklist 2003, Patrons |
| Richard Ellis |
Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss |
Staff |
Richard Ellis
|
The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
Douglas H. Erwin
|
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years
Ago |
American Scientist |
| Nina Fedoroff |
Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically
Modified Foods |
Staff |
| Timothy Ferris |
Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers are Probing
Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril |
NY Times Best Booklist 2002 |
| Kitty Ferguson |
Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever
Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens |
LA Times Best Booklist 2003, Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
2003 |
| Richard P. Feynman |
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics, Explained by its
Most Brilliant Teacher |
Staff |
| Len Fisher |
How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life |
American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award - Scientist
2004. |
| Tim Flannery |
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America
and its Peoples |
Staff |
| James Rodger Fleming |
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
|
Staff |
| Tim Folger |
The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2007
|
Nat Wheelwright |
| Richard Fortey |
Earth: An Intimate History |
Library Journal 7/2004 |
| Richard Fortey |
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years
of Life on Earth |
NY Times Best Booklist 1998 |
| Peter Galison |
Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré'sMaps:
Empire of Time |
Booklist Editors' Choice 2003 & Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
2003 |
| George Gamow |
Mr. Tompkins in Paperback |
Staff |
| Ross Gelbspan |
The Heat is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the Prescription |
Walter Rosen |
| Simon Garfield |
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World |
Staff |
| Martin Gardner |
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science |
Staff |
| Jane Goodall |
Africa in My Blood:
An Autobiography in Letters:
The Early Years |
Staff |
| Jane Goodall |
Beyond Innocence:
An Autobiography in Letters:
The Later Years |
Staff |
| Michael D. Gordin |
A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow Of
The Periodic Table |
Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Books 2004 |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Ever Since Darwin:
Reflections in Natural History |
Staff |
| Brian Greene |
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture
of Reality
Audio CD available too |
Booklist, LJ |
James Halfpenny |
A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
|
Staff |
James C. Halfpenny and Roy Douglas Ozanne |
Winter: An Ecological Handbook
|
Staff |
Stephen S. Hall |
Merchants of
Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
|
Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science &
Technology 2004 |
| Richard Hamblyn |
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged
the Language of the Skies |
LA Times Book Prize for Science and Technology 2002 |
| Garrett Hardin |
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population
Taboos |
Staff |
| Stephen Hawking |
The Universe in a Nutshell
Audio CD available too |
Aventis 2002 |
| Robert M. Hazen |
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin |
LJ, Staff |
Robin Marantz Henig |
Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the
Reproductive Revolution |
ALA, 2004 Notable Books for Adults - Non-fiction |
| Gregg Herken |
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties
of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller |
Staff |
| Homer H. Hickam, Jr. |
Rocket Boys: A Memoir |
Staff |
| Paul Hoffman |
The Man
Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search
for Mathematical Truth |
Aventis 1999 |
Paul Hoffman |
Wings of Madness: Alberto
Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight |
Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science &
Technology 2004 |
| Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
The Ants |
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction |
| Phillip Hoose |
The Race to
Save the Lord God Bird |
Staff |
| John L. Howland |
The
Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life |
Barry Logan |
| Scott Huler |
Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a Nineteenth-Century
Admiral Turned Science into Poetry |
Staff |
Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar
|
From Lucy to Language |
AAAS 1/2007, Staff |
Michio Kaku |
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions,
and the Future of the Cosmos |
Booklist Editors Choice List 2004 |
| Ross King |
Brunelleschi's Dome:
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture |
Staff |
| Matthew Klingle |
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle |
Staff |
| Elizabeth Kolbert |
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate
Change |
Staff |
Alan M. Kraut |
Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader |
History of Science Society Awards: Watson Davis and Helen
Miles Davis Prize 2005 |
| Lawrence Maxwell Krauss |
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and
Beyond |
AIPSci.- Scientist 2002 |
| Thomas S. Kuhn |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
Staff |
| Robert Kunzig |
Mapping the Deep |
Aventis Prize for general science 2001 |
| Edward J. Larson |
Evolution:
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory |
Staff |
| Michael Lemonick |
Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe |
AIPSci. - Journalist 1999 |
Alan Lightman, editor |
The Best American Science Writing, 2005 |
Staff |
Alan Lightman |
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science,
Including the Original Papers |
Staff |
Alan Lightman |
Great Ideas
In Physics |
Staff |
Alan Lightman,
Daniel Sarewitz & Cristina Desser, Editors
|
Living With the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest
for Human Mastery |
Staff |
| Dana Mackenzie |
The Big Splat; or, How Our Moon Came to Be |
Booklist Editors' Choice 2003 & Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
2003 |
| Brenda Maddox |
Rosalind
Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA |
LA Times Book Prize for Science and Technology 2002 |
João Magueijo |
Faster Than the Speed of Light:
The Story of a Scientific Speculation |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
| Maryn McKenna |
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with Disease
Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service |
SB&F 7-8/2005
Young Adult selection |
| Bill McKibben |
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age |
Booklist Editors' Choice 2003 |
| Chris McManus |
Right Hand, Left Hand:
The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures |
Aventis Prize for general science 2003 |
| John McPhee |
The Curve of Binding Energy |
Staff |
| Donella Meadows |
Limits to Growth:
The 30-Year Update |
Linda Oliver, CML Reference Librarian |
Forrest L. Mitchell and
James L. Lasswell |
A Dazzle of Dragonflies |
Staff |
Sy Montgomery |
Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in
Southeast Asia |
Staff |
J. Madeleine Nash |
El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets
of the Master Weather-Maker |
American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award - Journalist
2004 |
| John Naughton |
A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet
Years in a Lifetime
|
Staff |
William R. Newman
&
Lawrence M. Principe
|
Alchemy Tried in the Fire:
Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry |
History of Science Society Awards: Pfizer Award 2005 |
| Claire Nouvian |
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
|
Staff, Richard Ellis review |
David E. Nye |
Technology
Matters: Questions to Live With
|
Staff |
| Steve Olson |
Mapping Human History:
Discovering the Past Through Our Genes
|
Staff |
| Andrew Parker |
In the Blink of an Eye |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
| Katy Payne |
Silent
Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants |
Morrison Review |
| Steve Olson |
Mapping Human History:
Discovering the Past Through Our Genes
|
Staff |
| Sidney Perkowitz |
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science & the End of the
World
|
Staff |
Henry Petroski |
Small Things Considered:
Why There Is No Perfect Design |
Staff, Scientific American, SB&F 2003 |
| Steven Pinker, editor |
The Best American Science and Nature Writing |
Staff |
| Sandra Postel |
Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? |
Staff |
| Compiled by The President's Council on Bioethics |
Being Human: Readings From the President's Council on Bioethics |
Walter Rosen |
| David Quammen |
Monster of God: The Man-eating Predator in the Jungles of
History and the Mind |
Booklist Editors' Choice 2003 & Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
2003 |
V.S. Ramachandran &
Sandra Blakeslee |
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing Mysteries of the Human Mind |
Staff |
Lisa Randall
|
Warped Passages
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions |
Lee Grodzins |
| Martin Rees |
Our Final Hour - A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error,
and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in
this Century - On Earth and Beyond |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
Richard Rhodes |
John James Audubon:
The Making of an American |
Booklist Editors' Choice List 2004 |
| Jeremy Rifkin |
The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and remaking the
World |
Staff |
| John S. Rigden |
Einstein 1905:
The Standard of Greatness |
Staff
NOTE: this book is our extended read this Fall |
| Karl Sabbagh |
The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in
Mathematics |
John Smith |
| Karl Sabbagh |
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud |
Staff |
| Oliver Sacks |
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood |
NY Times Editor's Choice, Booklist 2001 |
| Carl Sagan |
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space |
Staff |
| J. William Schopf |
Cradle of Life: The discovery of the Earth's Earliest Fossils |
Phi Beta Kappa 2000 |
| Erwin Schrodinger |
What is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell |
Staff |
| Charles Seife |
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea |
Staff |
Kai Bird
and Martin J. Sherwin
|
American Prometheus:
The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer |
Booklist 2005 Top of the List winner |
| Pat Shipman |
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight |
Phi Beta Kappa 1998 |
John Rennie Short |
The World
Through Maps:
A History of Cartography |
Janet Fullerton, Head of Information Services, CML |
| David Allen Sibley |
The Sibley Guide to
Birds |
Staff |
| Tom Siegfried |
Strange Matters:
Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time |
SB&F 2003 |
| Dava Sobel, editor |
The Best American Science Writing 2004 |
Staff |
Dava Sobel |
The Planets |
Lee Grodzins |
Alan Tennant |
On the Wing: To the Edge of
the Earth with a Peregrin Falcon |
Booklist Editors' Choice List 2004 |
| Edward Tenner |
Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
On Growth and Form |
Staff |
| Kim Todd |
Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America |
Booklist Top 10 Sci/Tech books 2001 |
| Colin Tudge |
The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the
Creatures That Have Ever Lived |
Staff |
Neil Grasse Tyson,
Charles Liu, & Robert Irion |
One Universe At Home in the Cosmos |
AIPSci.. - Scientist 2001 |
| Jenny Uglow |
The Lunar Men:
Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World |
Staff |
Nicholas Wade |
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors |
American Scientist |
Alan Walker &
Pat Shipman |
The Wisdom of the Bones:
In Search of Human Origins |
Aventis 1997 |
| Peter D. Ward |
Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophie
in Earth's History |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2004 |
James D. Watson,
with Andrew Berry |
DNA: The Secret
of Life |
Booklist Editors' Choice 2003 & Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
2003 |
| Spencer R. Weart |
The Discovery of Global Warming |
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books of 2003 |
Scott Weidensaul |
Return to Wild
America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul |
Staff,
Library Journal's Best Science & Technology Books 2005 |
| Samantha Weinberg |
A Fish Caught in Time |
Staff |
| Steven Weinberg |
Dreams of a Final Theory |
Staff |
Jonathan Weiner, editor
|
The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005 |
Staff |
| Victor F. Weisskopf |
The Privilege of Being a Physicist |
Lee Grodzins |
John Archibald Wheeler &
Kenneth Ford |
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics |
AIPSci. - Scientist 1999 |
| David S. Wilcove |
No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal
Migrations
|
Rick Speer, Staff |
| John Noble Wilford |
The Riddle of the Dinosaur |
Staff |
Kathleen Broome Williams |
Improbable Warriors:
Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II |
History of Science Society Awards: Margaret W. Rossiter
History of Women in Science Prize 2005 |
| Edward O. Wilson |
The Insect Societies |
Staff |
| Simon Winchester |
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
(Available in CD and cassette tape) |
Booklist Editors' Choice 2003 & Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
2003 |
| Stephen Wolfram |
A New Kind of Science |
Staff |
