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| 1. |  | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $10.78 Customer Review:  This anthology, edited by Jerome Groopman, is exactly what one would hope for - a wide-ranging collection of well-written, fascinating articles which will expand the reader's horizons and are fun to read. Groopman's anthology benefits from his having cast a very broad net, as well as from the depth... |
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| 2. |  | The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $23.07 Customer Review: Excellent selections! This collection includes some of my favorites and many others that should be. This book serves as an encouragement to read much more. Thanks to RD for the choices. One odd note: Doug H is referred to as "one-off among scientists". |
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| 3. |  | Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries from W. W. Norton Price: $10.85 Customer Review: This book is a collection of magazine articles concerning astronomy and astrophysics, but the association with science should not put one off as the book is written in plane language, without any recourse to mathematics. While it is made from a collection of science articles, it has a coherent... |
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| 4. |  | Falling for Science: Objects in Mind from The MIT Press Price: $16.47 | |
| 5. |  | The Best American Science Writing 2008 from Harper Perennial Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I agree with some of the other reviewers. The topics included in this "best of" volume are far too narrow. After reading three stories about doctors getting paid by big pharma, I gave up and jumped ahead - only to find more biomedical stories. While these may have been the most prominent in the... |
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| 6. |  | What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Library Edition) from Blackstone Audiobooks Price: $29.95 Customer Review: Not quite as funny as "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman", but just as touching. A pleasure to read. This books makes us like not only the man, but it also inspires us to join his quest for scientific knowledge and rational thinking. |
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| 7. |  | Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences from Bedford/St. Martin's Customer Review: When you have to get a text book, amazon is an economical way to get one instead of the university book store. This arrived in 2 days and in good shape. I will look for books here every semester |
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| 8. |  | Ideas and Opinions from Bonanza Books Price: $5.99 Customer Review: "Ideas & Opinions" is one of those books that makes you kinda laugh to yourself at reading some of the passages and hit yourself and think, "well, that makes sense!" It's an interesting look at the issues and thought processes which shaped the way Albert Einstein would live his life and lead his... |
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| 9. |  | What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything from Harper Perennial Price: $10.19 | |
| 10. |  | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series (TM)) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $10.92 Customer Review: Very good collection. I subscribe to many of the magazines these articles come from and I still love this series. Very often reading about science can be laborious. This is a great collection of wide-ranging topics that give you a taste of many different areas. |
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| 11. |  | A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love from Mariner Books Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  In this book, in vivid and virile prose, and many passages of stunning beauty, Richard Dawkins has created an illusion of certainty on one of the most critical issues of contemporary society: What does it mean to be a human being. The book is a collection of articles written over several years, with... |
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| 12. |  | Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character from W. W. Norton Price: $19.77 Customer Review: what all the other reviewers stated. This work sat around the house for several months b/4 I picked it up. Why? B/cause I did not think I was in mood to have my aging brain challenged w/things I had to suffer to understand. NOT & WRONG! This genius writes like your favorite... |
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| 13. |  | Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) from W W Norton & Co Inc Customer Review: I have not read the 2nd or 3rd editions of this book. But based on the table of contents that I have seen they are even better. Appleman does a great job of organizing the material. I've often thought that the amount of religious material was a little bit overwhelming. I will probably try to pick up... |
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| 14. |  | Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $11.20 Customer Review: This is another book which at some point will enter our cultural canon, much like Orwell's essays or Gary Zukav's _The Dancing Wu-Li Masters_. True, as a few critics have pointed out, for some reason an essay or two drags; it's a style thing, or perhaps a scientific term here or there. But... |
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| 15. |  | What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better from Harper Perennial Price: $10.92 Customer Review: This is an excellent text: brief statements by a variety of top flight scientists, giving me much more to be optimistic about! |
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| 16. |  | The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books) from New York Review Books Price: $12.21 Customer Review: Freeman Dyson is a scientist. He is also a very competent and thoughtful essayist. I first came across his writings in The New York Review of Books, which are what led me to read this book. I see that several long reviews have already been posted on the subject, so I will not rehash the contents of... |
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| 17. |  | The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule from Holt Paperbacks Price: $11.56 Customer Review: It's like a unique approach to morality from the psychology (?) perspective as compared with e.g., philosopher Susan Neiman's "Moral Clarity". I agree with other reviewers that it's rather a philosophic analysis of good and evil although Shermer used 8 some changing grey points between pure good and... |
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| 18. |  | What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty from Harper Perennial Price: $11.86 Customer Review:  Cool book, fast read. For some reason I had an expectation that there would be more 'Sagan-esque where science and spirit meet' (a la Contact) type answers and instead it seemed like a book edited by Madelyn O'Hair...but I really found it very interesting. Lots of the answers were so close though... |
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| 19. |  | When Science Goes Wrong from Plume Price: $10.20 Customer Review: If you're like me and two of your greatest loves are books about science and reading about natural disasters and calamities... seek help. Seriously. It's just not right to have that particular set of amusements. But while you are in one of those old-fashioned "Girl: Interrupted" style mental wards,... |
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| 20. |  | The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $11.53 Customer Review: This is the book that reminds us why Stephen Jay Gould was the Great One. He was perhaps the greatest naturalist of his generation, as measured by being able to get across complex scientific ideas for the common man in an interesting manner. Additionally, he was a great scientist in his own right.... |
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