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			A Drop of Water - A Book of Science and WonderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A book that combines art and science, with beautiful and stunning photographs of water in its many states: ice, steam, frost, rainbow, and dew. Concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and surfac... author: Walter Wick


			A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. "A brilliant and convincing book" Science 83 author: Evelyn Fox Keller


			A Sand County AlmanacClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A natural history classic by the great naturalist, Aldo Leopold, documenting his observations at his weekend refuge, a Wisconsin farm. author: Aldo Leopold


			A Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ... author: Bill Bryson


			An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Sacks reveals through seven anecdotes the lives of seven extraordinary people with neurological disorders. Through these stories he illlustrates how the brain works to define our individual worlds an... author: Oliver Sacks


			An Owl in the House - A Naturalist's DiaryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich stumbled upon a young Great Horned Owl in the Vermont woods and decided to care for it and eventually help it return to the wild. He kept a diary of the owlet's growth and ... author: Bernd Heinrich



			Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An adaptation of "Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists" by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer. Tells the story of cosmology, its history, the new discoveries, and the questions and contr... author: Alan Lightman


			Annals of the Former WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. In the late 1970's, John McPhee began a series of journeys back and forth across the United States, traveling with prominent geologists and attempting to describe a cross-section of the continent at a... author: John McPhee


			Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Sacks reveals through seven anecdotes the lives of seven extraordinary people with neurological disorders. Through these stories he illlustrates how the brain works to define our individual worlds an... author: Oliver Sacks


			AntsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Discusses the importance of ants, their classification and origins, colony life cycle, behavior, and communication. Includes both black & white and color photographs. author: Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson


			Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A celebration of the Arctic, its land, wildlife, people, and light. Also a story of discovery and exploration, a history of the people who ventured there and why, and of present-day scientists who stu... author: Barry Lopez



			Artificial Life: The Quest for New CreationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An account of the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, the resulting impact across the sciences, and the power of the computer. Includes discussion of software, robots, smart mole... author: Steven Levy


			Assembling CaliforniaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Over a span of 15 years, John McPhee made many geological field trips with tectonicist Eldridge Moores, and this book is the result. A cross-section in human and geologic time, this fourth volume in ... author: John McPhee


			Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809 - 1882Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The complete and unexpurgated autobiography edited by Darwin's granddaughter provides a look into Darwin's mind, character, a personal account of his education, explorations of the natural world, his ... author: Charles Darwin, edited by Nora Barlow


			Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Darwin's classic autobiography, written in simple, straightforward language. Covers a range of issues not known to those who have only read his Origin of Species. Appendix containing letters adds muc... author: Charles Darwin


			Beak of the FinchClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Weiner introduces us to the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists who have spent the last 20 years on an island in the Galapagos studying the finches there. Because the islands ar... author: Jonathan Weiner



			Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A chronicle of the history, science, and lives behind the development of the atomic bomb, including scientists, world leaders and citizens, from Marie Curie's 1898 discovery of radium to the bombing... author: Diana Preston


			Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous LegacyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Reveals the science of the cosmos through the scientists that study it, the thrilling scientific discoveries, historical account and personal insight. author: Kip S. Thorne


			Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A fascinating historical account of the medical use of human blood and its worldwide commerce; from the first documented transfusion in mid 17th century France to the AIDS epidemic. author: Douglas Starr


			Blue WhaleClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An historical account of the ignorance and indifference that led to the slaughter and almost extinction of the Blue Whale. A classic case study of the exploitation of natural resources. author: George L. Small


			Bugs, Insects, Spiders, Centipedes, Millipedes, and Other Closely Related ArthropodsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A visual introduction to insects and other arthropods. Large glossy photos with brief facts on each page. Although its large size and numerous pictures might lead one to think it's a children?s book... author: Frank Lowenstein & Sheryl Lechner



			Bumblebee EconomicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A highly readable and rewarding look into the ecology of the bumblebee; its economy of energy through physiology, behavior, and ecological interaction. Includes full color guide to field ID. author: Bernd Heinrich


			Chaos: Making a New ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays that trace the birth and development of the chaos theory. Includes color and black & white photos and illustrations. Essay Titles: The Butterfly Effect; revolution; Life's Ups a... author: James Gleick


			Civilized Man's Eight Deadly SinsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Through nine essays Lorenz explores the dehumanization of society through the contributing factors of overpopulation, environmental degredation, genetic decay, increasing vulnerability to indoctrinati... author: Konrad Lorenz


			Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum CryptographyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The vivd telling of the history of codes from the ancient Greeks to modern computer science, and the story of treasures, treasure hunters, and the power of codes, or their breaking, to alter history. author: Simon Singh


			Creepy Crawlies: Ladybugs, Lobsters & Other Amazing ArthropodsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Discusses the evolution of arthropods, their characteristics, their adaptability to many habitats and environments, and their relationship to humans. author: British Museum (Natural History)



			Crystal & GemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes the seven basic shapes of crystals and how they form in nature, how crystals are studied and identified, how crystals are grown artificially and used in industry, and other aspects of crysta... author: Dr. R. F. Symes, Dr. R. R. Harding


			Dancing Wu Li Masters - An Overview of the New PhysicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A book for those curious about the new discoveries in advanced physics but who have no scientific background. Written in clear language with no mathematical equations, it explores quantum mechanics, ... author: Gary Zukav


			Deadly Feasts - Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A somber exploration of the emergence of deadly ?stealth? maladies known as prion diseases (mad cow disease being one). Rhodes shows how this mysterious group of human and animal diseases is spreadin... author: Richard Rhodes


			Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs - An Expedition to MadagascarClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The story of paleontologist Cathy Forster and her expedition to Madagascar in search of bird fossils to further show their close relationship with dinosaurs. Experience the hardships of camp life, t... author: Nic Bishop


			Diversity of LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Pulitzer Prize-winning author E.O. Wilson?s account of how the living world became diverse and how humans are destroying that diversity. Wilson recounts the five enormous natural blows to the planet ... author: Edward O. Wilson



			Double Helix - A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. James Watson's account of the events leading to the solution of the structure of DNA in the early 1950's. More than just a recounting of the scientific discoveries involved, it is a story of human in... author: James D. Watson


			Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An overview of the evolution of human intelligence from prehistoric to the present with an explanation how the brain developed and functions. Also discusses the future evolution of the human brain and... author: Carl Sagan


			Drop of Water - A Book of Science and WonderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A book that combines art and science, with beautiful and stunning photographs of water in its many states: ice, steam, frost, rainbow, and dew. Concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and surfac... author: Walter Wick


			Dying of the Trees: The Pandemic in America's ForestsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Through exploration of America's forests and discussions with scientists, foresters, citizens, and government officials, Little recounts the history of the demise of America's forests and the efforts ... author: Charles E. Little


			Edge of the SeaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Considered a classic, Rachel Carson's look at the life within the intertidal zone, one of the most harsh ocean environments, the rocky shores, sandy beaches and tide pools. Black and white illustratio... author: Rachel Carson



			Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A contemplative and personal collection of essays, a series that began with Gould's "This View of Life" in Natural History magazine, that look at the connectedness of all life. author: Stephen Jay Gould


			Einstein's Dreams: A NovelClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An adventure into the mind of young Albert Einstein through imaginings of his dreams about time when he was working as a patent clerk by day and developing his five world-changing theories of 1905: Qu... author: Alan Lightman


			Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An inviting explanation for the lay person interested in string theory, the first theory that successfully unites general relativity and quantum mechanics. author: NOVA


			Experiencing Science: Profiles in DiscoveryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Two faces of physics: Kepler, harmony of the world. Rabi, the modern age.--Three faces of biology: Lysenko, enemies of the people. A sorrow and a pity, Rosalind Franklin and The double helix. Lewis Th... author: Jeremy Bernstein


			Family MathClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A book for parents and children working together, learning to like math, and doing activities that make math fun for children from five to 18 years old. It covers important mathematics topics like wo... author: Jean Kerr Stenmark, Virginia Thompson, Ruth Cossey



			Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. "A brilliant and convincing book" Science 83 author: Evelyn Fox Keller


			Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathamatical ProblemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The amazing story of the Holy Grail of Mathematics and the 356 years of struggle to find the proof, and of Andrew Wiles, the man who did. author: Simon Singh


			Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes I - IIIClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Three volumes based upon a course of introductory physics taught by Richard Feynman at Caltech in the early 1960's. Volume I focuses on mechanics, radiation and heat; Volume II on electromagnetism and... author: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sa


			First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Chronicle of the "first contact" experience of Australian explorer Michael Leahy who, in 1930, went looking for gold in Papua New Guinea and found a civilization of almost 1 million people who had ha... author: Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson


			Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused ItClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A dramatic account and globe trotting adventure that relates the mystery surrounding the cause of the flu epidemic of 1918 and the current (1998)race to recover a live sample of the pathogen. Includes... author: Gina Kolata



			Forgotten PollinatorsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A beautiful story of the relationship between plants and their pollinators and a reminder of the interconnectedness of all life. author: Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan


			Fragile SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays about medicine, microbes, language, and humans among others, that all point to the conclusion that cooperation and communication are key to our survival. author: Lewis Thomas


			Future of LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a book that is both a loving description of our biosphere and all its diversity, and a call for quick, decisive action to save it. With our plane... author: Edward O. Wilson


			Fuzzy Logic - The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology - and How it is Changing Our WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An introduction to fuzzy logic, a concept invented in 1964 by Lotfi Zadeh. Unlike conventional logic, which divides the world into yes and no, black and white, fuzzy logic deals in shades of gray an... author: Daniel McNeill, Paul Freiberger


			Galileo's Daughter - A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Using the surviving letters of Galileo's eldest daughter, a cloistered nun, the author has created a compelling biography of one of history's most influential scientists. A great comfort to Galileo ... author: Dava Sobel



			Genius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Biography of Richard Feynman, the renown physicist's physicist by award-winning author James Gleick. Chapter headings: Far Rockaway; MIT; Princeton; Los Alamos; Cornell; Caltech. Includes black & whit... author: James Gleick


			Genome - The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Ridley wrote this in 1999, just before the 2000 publication of the first draft of the human genome. He picks one newly discovered gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and tells its st... author: Matt Ridley


			Gorillas in the MistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The personal adventure and scientific work of Dian Fossey's thirteen years studying the mountain gorillas of the African rain forests. Includes black & white and color photographs. author: Dian Fossey


			Great Ideas in Physics: the conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, and quantum mechanicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An exploration of the four foundations of modern physics and their impact on the world, not only through science, but also the arts, social sciences, philosophy, and politics. author: Alan Lightman


			Great Influenza - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. History of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the scientists who worked to find a cure, and how the practice of medicine was revolutionized. Also the story of how the war against the epidemic was imposed u... author: John M. Barry



			Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a comprehensive treatise that brings together ecology, botany, anthropology, medicine and evolution. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, 1998. Also availab... author: Jared Diamond


			Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes: Further Reflections in Natural HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of natural history essays. Topic Headings: Sensible Oddities; Personalities; Adaptation & Development; Teilhard & Piltdown; Science & Politics; Extinction; A Zebra Trilogy. Includes black... author: Stephen Jay Gould


			How to Lie With MapsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. First introducing basic principles of mapmaking such as scale, projections, symbols and generalization, Monmonier then moves on to how maps are - sometimes deliberately, sometimes not - distorted and ... author: Mark Monmonier


			Illustrated LongitudeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This illustrated version contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, accompanied by 178 images, from portraits of key figures, to maps, diagrams and photographs of scientific instruments invo... author: Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes


			Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. From the author's website: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells - taken without her knowledge in 1951 - became one of the mos... author: Rebecca Skloot



			In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Eric R. Kandel, the Austrian-born Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist is the author of In Search of Memory, the winner of the 2007 LA Times Science and Technology Prize and a finalist for the Royal Soc... author: Eric R. Kandel


			In Search of NatureClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays published between 1975 and 1993, addressing both nature and human nature and how they are closely interwoven. Wilson argues that the only way to fully understand both is to stu... author: Edward O. Wilson


			In Suspect TerrainClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This book is the second in a series of five that together make up Annals of the Former World. In this volume, McPhee travels with and profiles the work of geologist Anita G. Harris as they cover the ... author: John McPhee


			Invention that Changed the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. How a small group of British and American radar pioneers won the second world war and launched a technological revolution. author: Robert Buderi


			Isaac NewtonClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An intimate look at the life and work of Isaac Newton by award-winning author James Gleick. Includes black & white illustrations. author: James Gleick



			King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal WaysClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A classic by one of the world's leading naturalists, Konrad Lorenz, teaches the reader to not just look at animals, but to observe them with affection and hard reasoning, so that their behavior can be... author: Konrad Z. Lorenz


			Knowledge and Wonder - The Natural World as Man Knows ItClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A classic, clear presentation of usually difficult topics, Weisskopf's book summarizes many areas of modern science for the non-physics trained mind. Technical terms clearly explained. Diagrams and ... author: Victor F. Weisskopf


			Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth SymphonyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays including thoughts about the nuclear age, altruism, dementia, humanities and science, and the artificial heart. author: Lewis Thomas


			Life: The Unfinished ExperimentClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Presents the basic facts of genetics and cellular biology while stessing their relationship to the development and evolution of organisms. Discusses the implication of this knowledge for medicine, psy... author: S. E. Luria


			Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology WatcherClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This collection of essays won the National Book Award in 1975 and continues to find meaning today. Includes discussion of computers, probability and possibility, the technology of medicine, the Earth... author: Lewis Thomas



			Lobsters: Gangsters of the SeaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes the physical aspects, habits, and life cycle of the American "Maine" lobster as well as the activities of New England lobstermen. Includes bibliography for adults and young readers. Excellen... author: Mary M. Cerullo


			Longitude - The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A saga of science and invention, and an historical account of John Harrison's struggle with the technical and political problems of longitude. His tenacity and genius led to the invention of an accura... author: Dava Sobel


			Lucy: The Beginnings of HumankindClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The dramatic discovery of our oldest human ancestor - and the controversial change it makes in our view of human origins. author: Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey


			Marie Curie - A LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Biography of Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and one of only a few people to receive a second. Quinn used family documents as well as Curie's journal, unavailable to researcher... author: Susan Quinn


			Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology WatcherClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Pultizer Prize winning collection of essays which includes thoughts about committees, natural death, the health-care system, premedical curriculum, and embryology. author: Lewis Thomas



			Mismeasure of ManClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A history of man's urge to classify and determine the intelligence of his fellow man, from craniometry to IQ tests, and the consequences of such pigeonholing. Includes black & white illustrations. author: Stephen Jay Gould


			NaturalistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Wilson recounts his early childhood along the Gulf Coast of Florida and Alabama, his fascination with nature, and how that led to a lifelong study of evolutionary biology. Within the narrative, the r... author: Edward O. Wilson


			New Way Things WorkClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A thorough and engaging book which introduces and explains the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. This updated and expanded edition describes 12 new machines and includes mor... author: David Macaulay


			No Small Matter: Science on the NanoscaleClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A stunning coffee table-style book that explores the realities and possibilities of nanoscience. Frankel's photographs beautifully illustrate Whiteside's essays on the science and technology of small ... author: Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides


			Nobel Prize Women in ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Profiles of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a project that did. Looks at the disparity in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to women (only ten out o... author: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne



			On the Origin of Species - The Illustrated EditionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This illustrated edition marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of On the Origin of Species. Using hundreds of excerpts and historical images from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, Th... author: Charles Darwin; David Quammen, general editor


			Origin of SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The landmark work that set forth Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. Based largely on the observations from his five year voyage on the HMS Beagle, the book challenged the beliefs of ... author: Charles Darwin


			Owl in the House - A Naturalist's DiaryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich stumbled upon a young Great Horned Owl in the Vermont woods and decided to care for it and eventually help it return to the wild. He kept a diary of the owlet's growth and ... author: Bernd Heinrich


			Painters of the CavesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings. Discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times. Many co... author: Patricia Lauber


			Peacemaking Among PrimatesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An examination of how four simian species cope with aggression and how they make peace after fights. De Waal's thesis that forgiveness and peacemaking are widespread among non-human primates offers t... author: Frans De Waal



			Periodic TableClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An unusual story that interweaves the life experience of Italian chemist Primo Levy with twenty-one elements of the periodic table. author: Primo Levi


			Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays: The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -... author: Richard P. Feynman with forward by Freeman Dyson


			Plows, Plagues & PetroleumClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Provides an historical account of the human impact on climate change since the dawn of agriculture, some 8,000 years ago, and a look into the future. author: William F. Ruddiman


			Powers of Ten - The Relative Size of Things in the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A visual journey from the farthest dimensions of the universe to the interior of a single atom, this book contains 42 photos, each a power of ten closer than the one before it (meters in10 to the 25th... author: Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, C. & R. Eames


			Reading the Forested Landscape - A Natural History of New EnglandClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from pre-colonial days to the present. Each chapter addresses a form of forest disturbance common in New England (fire, logging, blight), ... author: Tom Wessels



			Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient EgyptClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics. author: James Cross Giblin


			Rising From the PlainsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. McPhee profiles David Love, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and their travels together across Wyoming studying the rock in roadcuts of the interstate and the geologies these roadcuts repr... author: John McPhee


			Sand County AlmanacClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A natural history classic by the great naturalist, Aldo Leopold, documenting his observations at his weekend refuge, a Wisconsin farm. author: Aldo Leopold


			Science: Good, Bad and Bogus: A Skeptical Look at Extraordinary ClaimsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays addressing science fact, fraud, crackpots and quacks. author: Martin Gardner


			Sea Around UsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A naturalist's account of the beginnings of the sea and its life zones, to the tides, and the scientific undersea exploration of the oceans that was first ignited by WWII. Includes black & white pho... author: Rachel L. Carson



			Seeing Earth From SpaceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A chance to see the earth from space as the astronauts do! Vividly illustrated with satellite images of various locations across the earth. The text explores different features visible from space, h... author: Patricia Lauber


			Sense of WonderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A beautiful combination of text and photographs that was inspired by Carson?s grandnephew, whom she raised from an infant. Originally published in a magazine under the title ?Help Your Child to Wonde... author: Rachel Carson


			Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ... author: Bill Bryson


			Silent SpringClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The landmark book that spurred revolutionary changes in government policy toward the environment and exposed the dangers of pesticides. The publication of this book launched the environmental movemen... author: Rachel Carson


			Slime Molds and FungiClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Part of the "Nature Close-Up" series, this book explores the many different types of fungi and their roles in the cycle of life. Hands-on natural science projects throughout the book help the reader ... author: Elaine Pascoe



			Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters along the World's Coasts and Beneath the SeasClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An epic personal narrative of a global journey to discover the condition of the ocean... and of mankind. author: Carl Safina


			Soul of a New MachineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative story of the inner workings of Data General Corporation's research team of young computer wizards who were slated with the task of creating the fastest computer in... author: Tracy Kidder


			Stumbling on HappinessClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A witty, wry and amusing book "that describes what science has to tell us about how and how well the human brain can imagine its own future, and about how and how well it can predict which of those fu... author: Daniel Gilbert


			Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious CharacterClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of stories, compiled over seven years, that provide a glimpse into the mind and methods of Richard Feynman. author: Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton


			Tangled Wing: Biological Constaints on the Human SpiritClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Discussion of the biological basis of human behavior and emotions, and a call for further work to understand the "raw materials of life" and how they impact human behavior so that society may shape i... author: Melvin Konner



			Tenth Dimension - An Informal History of High Energy PhysicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Written so that those with no specialized scientific knowledge can understand it, this book describes in outline both the history and science of the fields of elementary particle physics and cosmology... author: Jeremy Bernstein


			The AntsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Discusses the importance of ants, their classification and origins, colony life cycle, behavior, and communication. Includes both black & white and color photographs. author: Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson


			The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809 - 1882Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The complete and unexpurgated autobiography edited by Darwin's granddaughter provides a look into Darwin's mind, character, a personal account of his education, explorations of the natural world, his ... author: Charles Darwin, edited by Nora Barlow


			The Beak of the FinchClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Weiner introduces us to the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists who have spent the last 20 years on an island in the Galapagos studying the finches there. Because the islands ar... author: Jonathan Weiner


			The Blue WhaleClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An historical account of the ignorance and indifference that led to the slaughter and almost extinction of the Blue Whale. A classic case study of the exploitation of natural resources. author: George L. Small



			The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum CryptographyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The vivd telling of the history of codes from the ancient Greeks to modern computer science, and the story of treasures, treasure hunters, and the power of codes, or their breaking, to alter history. author: Simon Singh


			The Dancing Wu Li Masters - An Overview of the New PhysicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A book for those curious about the new discoveries in advanced physics but who have no scientific background. Written in clear language with no mathematical equations, it explores quantum mechanics, ... author: Gary Zukav


			The Diversity of LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Pulitzer Prize-winning author E.O. Wilson?s account of how the living world became diverse and how humans are destroying that diversity. Wilson recounts the five enormous natural blows to the planet ... author: Edward O. Wilson


			The Double Helix - A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. James Watson's account of the events leading to the solution of the structure of DNA in the early 1950's. More than just a recounting of the scientific discoveries involved, it is a story of human in... author: James D. Watson


			The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An overview of the evolution of human intelligence from prehistoric to the present with an explanation how the brain developed and functions. Also discusses the future evolution of the human brain and... author: Carl Sagan



			The Dying of the Trees: The Pandemic in America's ForestsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Through exploration of America's forests and discussions with scientists, foresters, citizens, and government officials, Little recounts the history of the demise of America's forests and the efforts ... author: Charles E. Little


			The Edge of the SeaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Considered a classic, Rachel Carson's look at the life within the intertidal zone, one of the most harsh ocean environments, the rocky shores, sandy beaches and tide pools. Black and white illustratio... author: Rachel Carson


			The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An inviting explanation for the lay person interested in string theory, the first theory that successfully unites general relativity and quantum mechanics. author: NOVA


			The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes I - IIIClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Three volumes based upon a course of introductory physics taught by Richard Feynman at Caltech in the early 1960's. Volume I focuses on mechanics, radiation and heat; Volume II on electromagnetism and... author: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sa


			The Forgotten PollinatorsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A beautiful story of the relationship between plants and their pollinators and a reminder of the interconnectedness of all life. author: Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan



			The Fragile SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays about medicine, microbes, language, and humans among others, that all point to the conclusion that cooperation and communication are key to our survival. author: Lewis Thomas


			The Future of LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a book that is both a loving description of our biosphere and all its diversity, and a call for quick, decisive action to save it. With our plane... author: Edward O. Wilson


			The Great Influenza - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. History of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the scientists who worked to find a cure, and how the practice of medicine was revolutionized. Also the story of how the war against the epidemic was imposed u... author: John M. Barry


			The Illustrated LongitudeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This illustrated version contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, accompanied by 178 images, from portraits of key figures, to maps, diagrams and photographs of scientific instruments invo... author: Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes


			The Invention that Changed the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. How a small group of British and American radar pioneers won the second world war and launched a technological revolution. author: Robert Buderi



			The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology WatcherClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This collection of essays won the National Book Award in 1975 and continues to find meaning today. Includes discussion of computers, probability and possibility, the technology of medicine, the Earth... author: Lewis Thomas


			The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology WatcherClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Pultizer Prize winning collection of essays which includes thoughts about committees, natural death, the health-care system, premedical curriculum, and embryology. author: Lewis Thomas


			The Mismeasure of ManClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A history of man's urge to classify and determine the intelligence of his fellow man, from craniometry to IQ tests, and the consequences of such pigeonholing. Includes black & white illustrations. author: Stephen Jay Gould


			The New Way Things WorkClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A thorough and engaging book which introduces and explains the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. This updated and expanded edition describes 12 new machines and includes mor... author: David Macaulay


			The Origin of SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The landmark work that set forth Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. Based largely on the observations from his five year voyage on the HMS Beagle, the book challenged the beliefs of ... author: Charles Darwin



			The Periodic TableClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An unusual story that interweaves the life experience of Italian chemist Primo Levy with twenty-one elements of the periodic table. author: Primo Levi


			The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays: The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -... author: Richard P. Feynman with forward by Freeman Dyson


			The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient EgyptClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics. author: James Cross Giblin


			The Sea Around UsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A naturalist's account of the beginnings of the sea and its life zones, to the tides, and the scientific undersea exploration of the oceans that was first ignited by WWII. Includes black & white pho... author: Rachel L. Carson


			The Sense of WonderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A beautiful combination of text and photographs that was inspired by Carson?s grandnephew, whom she raised from an infant. Originally published in a magazine under the title ?Help Your Child to Wonde... author: Rachel Carson



			The Soul of a New MachineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative story of the inner workings of Data General Corporation's research team of young computer wizards who were slated with the task of creating the fastest computer in... author: Tracy Kidder


			The Tangled Wing: Biological Constaints on the Human SpiritClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Discussion of the biological basis of human behavior and emotions, and a call for further work to understand the "raw materials of life" and how they impact human behavior so that society may shape i... author: Melvin Konner


			The Tenth Dimension - An Informal History of High Energy PhysicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Written so that those with no specialized scientific knowledge can understand it, this book describes in outline both the history and science of the fields of elementary particle physics and cosmology... author: Jeremy Bernstein


			The Whale and the Supercomputer - On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Climate change has altered the way of life for Native people of the Arctic who live off the land and sea. It has also lured scientists north to study and try and understand the process of global warm... author: Charles Wohlforth


			The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-WatcherClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays about the nature of the field of medicine and our future. author: Lewis Thomas



			Time, Love, Memory - A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of BehaviorClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Profiles biologist Seymour Benzer, whose early work on the gene helped transform biological research. Breeding mutant fruit flies to study the link between genes and behavior, Benzer has shown that ... author: Jonathan Weiner


			Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean MotionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A seafaring adventure that follows the work of oceanographer, Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, as he tracks trash floating the world's oceans, a project turned career, inspired by his inquisitive mother, that i... author: Loree Griffin Burns


			Whale and the Supercomputer - On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Climate change has altered the way of life for Native people of the Arctic who live off the land and sea. It has also lured scientists north to study and try and understand the process of global warm... author: Charles Wohlforth


			What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious CharacterClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Picks up where "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" left off in providing the reader with glimpses into the mind and thought process of Richard Feynman. The second half of the book is Feynman's behind... author: Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton


			Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of ArchitectureClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This is the story of the functional structure of architecture - the science behind the art of building design - through a biography of the world's most significant architecture, from pyramids to brid... author: Mario Salvadori



			Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-WatcherClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays about the nature of the field of medicine and our future. author: Lewis Thomas

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