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			Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird FlightClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A story of scientific discovery, debate, and drama. Explores the evolution of bird flight from the finding of First Bird in 1861 through to modern scientific theories and debate. Includes black & whit... author: Pat Shipman


			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


			Tarantula ScientistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An in-depth look at the world's largest and hairiest spiders, the tarantulas. Follows spider scientist, Sam Marshall, through the rainforest of French Guiana and into the largest comparative spider la... author: Sy Montgomery


			Technology Matters: Questions to Live WithClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. David E. Nye explores the cultural and social impacts of technology and our relationship to it by asking ten central questions, each with a devoted chapter. Notes, bibliography, index. author: David E. Nye


			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 Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The story of the search for and discovery of the algorithm... the language that drives computers. author: David Berlinski



			The Adventures of Sojourner: The Mission to Mars that Thrilled the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Tells the story of the mission that placed the Sojourner remote-control rover on Mars on July 4, 1997. author: Susi Trautmann Wunsch


			The Amateur NaturalistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's 1982 classic, this new edition makes nature accessible to everyone. Bishop begins with the fundamentals of nature study: basic skills, equipment, and rules of co... author: Nick Baker


			The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of EvolutionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A novel presentation of a comprehensive look at evolution. The reader is invited to journey back through time, four billion years, with forty stops along the way at which the reader meets a common anc... author: Richard Dawkins


			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 Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and NatureClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Explores the inceasing interactions between mountain lions and people along the urban interface in Boulder, Colorado. author: David Baron


			The Beginning - Voyages Through TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Starting with the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, this book traces the origins and history of the universe, our sun, the earth and life upon it through time. Each chapter is devoted to different geolo... author: Peter Ackroyd


			The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an... author: Brian Greene, editor


			The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard... author: Richard Preston, editor



			The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists. author: Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor


			The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Twenty-one articles from a wide assortment of scientific fields, chosen by editor Elizabeth Kolbert and series editor Tim Folger. author: Elizabeth Kolbert, editor


			The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2004Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2004 edition of an annual collection of essays by American science and nature writers. Topics include neuroscience, cloning, genetics, bird food myths and bird watching, and the qualities of intr... author: Steven Pinker, editor Tim Folger series editor


			The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker. author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor


			The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2010Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of twenty-eight articles arranged under six headings: Visions of Space, Neurology Displacing Molecular Biology, Natural Beauty, The Environment: Gloom and Doom, The Environment: Small Ble... author: Freeman Dyson, editor & Tim Folger, series ed.



			The Best American Science Writing 2004Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2004 edition, edited by Dava Sobel, of this annual compliation of essays by the best of American science writers. Topics include space flight, physics, medicine and organ transplants, dark matter,... author: Dava Sobel, editor & Jesse Cohen series editor


			The Best American Science Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Jesse Cohen and editor Atul Gawande bring together 21 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists. Topics of interest to and accessib... author: Atul Gawande, editor


			The Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl... author: Gina Kolata, editor


			The Best American Science Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 2008 edition of this annual series. Nineteen articles on diverse scientific topics, chosen by edicot Sylvia Nasar and series editor Jesse Cohen. author: Sylvia Nasar, editor; Jesse Cohen, series editor


			The Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc... author: Jesse Cohen, series editor



			The Best American Science Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Twenty-six essays from notable authors selected by Alan Lightman, author, physicist, and MIT professor of humanities, as his best picks of 2005. Authors include Diane Ackerman, Natalie Angier, K.C. Co... author: Alan Lightman, editor


			The Best American Science Writing, 2010Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of twenty-two articles spanning topic areas of astronomy, botany, environmental health, evolution, health & wellness, and psychology. Contributing authors include Pam Belluck, Cornelia De... author: Jerome Groopman, editor / Jesse Cohen, series ed.


			The Best of Beakman's World (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Journey in time to the erupting volcanoes that created Earth's crust, to the depths of the ocean that housed the first complex creatures, through devastating ice ages, and finally to the future, when ... author: Paul Zaloom


			The Big Book of Brain Games - 1000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A revised and updated version of Moscovich's earlier compilation of challenges, puzzles, riddles, and illusions. Full-color illustration for each entry. Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patte... author: Ivan Moscovich


			The Big Splat; or, How Our Moon Came to BeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An historical and scientific account about how the Moon came to be. Includes black & white phots and illustrations. author: Dana Mackenzie



			The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without DesignClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Considered by scientists and non-scientists as a classic read about evolution, it is very accessible, intriguing, and written in clear language. Illustrations and diagrams in black & white. author: Richard Dawkins


			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 Bone Detectives - How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the DeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Fascinating book about forensic anthropologists and what they can learn from bones about how the person died, whether it was a male or female, how old the person was, and even height and weight. Poli... author: Donna M. Jackson


			The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Barrow explores the latest theories about the origin of the universe. (year. published, 2000) author: John D. Barrow


			The Botany of Desire - A Plant's-Eye View of the World [DVD]Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. This PBS documentary, narrated by Frances McDormand and featuring author Michael Pollan, is based on the best-selling book of the same title. It explores the human relationship with the plant world, f... author: PBS



			The Bumper Book of Nature - A User's Guide to the Great OutdoorsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Concerned about the lack of connection to the natural world for many of today's children, Moss has written a fun, user-friendly guide to enjoying the out-of-doors. Divided into sections for each of th... author: Stephen Moss


			The Cartoon Guide to ChemistryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Using clear, funny illustrations/cartoons and text, the history and basics of such topics as chemistry, atomic theory, combustion, solubility, the mole, entropy, and more are explained. Gonick has al... author: Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle


			The Chimpanzees I Love - Saving Their World and OursClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. In this compelling personal narrative, Jane Goodall writes about her childhood dreams of living with animals in Africa, and her 40 years of studying the chimpanzees of Gombe. Covers her ground-breaki... author: Jane Goodall


			The ClockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Part of the "Turning Point Inventions" series that focuses on the important inventions we often take for granted and how they have affected our lives. This book focuses on the history of time measure... author: Trent Duffy


			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 Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. TaylorClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Biography of theoretical physicist, Theodore B. Taylor, his work with the development of the atomic bomb, nuclear energy, and nuclear security. author: John McPhee


			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 Deep - The Extraordinary Creatures of the AbyssClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Over 200 color photos of deep-sea creatures give this book a stunning realism. Text by some of the most respected researchers examines the biology of deep-sea organisms, the ecology of deep-sea habit... author: Claire Nouvian, editor


			The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science, Including the Original PapersClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The 20th century saw breakthroughs in every field of science that profoundly changed the way we understand the world and our place in it. Lightman chooses 22 of these discoveries and profiles the sci... author: Alan Lightman


			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 Down-to-Earth Guide to Global WarmingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A comprehensive resource for explaining why global warming happens, how it affects us now and how it will in the future, and what we can do about it. With bold illustrations and pictures, different s... author: Laurie David, Cambria Gordon


			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 Enoch Wallace: Life, Death, and the Changing BrainClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A fascinating history of modern neuroscience with accounts of discovery. Delves into the mysteries of the brain, how it is shaped by both genetics and experience; ever-changing and complex. author: Ira B. Black, MD


			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 Echidna - Australia's EnigmaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A wealth of information about the echidna, a creature native to Australia and New Guinea that has a combination of mammalian and reptilian traits and about which much is still being discovered. Over ... author: Dr. Peggy Rismiller


			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 Elements - A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A color photo of every element in the universe, along with the story of its discovery, applications, and essential scientific data including atomic weight, atomic radius, a crystal structure diagram, ... author: Theodore Gray


			The Elements - What You Really Want to KnowClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Discusses the history of the periodic table of the elements, includes biographies of major figures in the field of chemistry, and provides information on each element. Answers questions such as how e... author: Ron Miller



			The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the SensesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The engrossing and entertaining story of Luca Turin's quest to solve the mystery of how sense of smell works. author: Chandler Burr


			The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An historical account of the lives, demise , and in some cases the conservation and re-population, of the fishes, turtles, pelagic birds, marine mammals and coral reefs of the oceans. A natural histor... author: Richard Ellis


			The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep Sea ExplorationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Ballard's own account of his exploration of the ocean depths and discovery of ancient treasures. Includes color and black & white photographs. author: Robert D. Ballard with Will Hively


			The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its PeoplesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An insightful and compelling mix of the history and science of North America, from its birth as a continent to today. Includes the natural history of elephants, giant pigs and other amazing animals th... author: Tim Flannery


			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 Films of Charles and Ray Eames (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Volume 1 - Powers of Ten: An adventure in magnitudes, from without and within. Journey from a picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the universe and back again. Also included is the original 1968 ... author: Charles Eames, Ray Eames


			The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the AtomClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Written for the non-scientist by London author, former reporter and self-acclaimed non-scientist Brian Cathcart, "The Fly in the Cathedral" is an accessible account of the lives and work of the scient... author: Brian Cathcart


			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 Frog ScientistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A profile of Dr. Tyrone Hayes and his work studying the effect of pesticides on frogs and, by extension, on humans and our environment. Heavily illustrated with photos of Hayes and his student researc... author: Pamela S. Turner



			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 Brain Book - An Inside Look At the Inside of Your HeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Explores the history of brain science and how it has grown and changed. The different parts of the brain and their functions are explained, as well as how you learn and remember, how you can train yo... author: HP Newquist


			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 Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of CivilizationsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. From the Inuit to the Norse, the Polynesians to the Western Europeans, the Mayans and people of Chaco Canyon, they have all felt the impacts of climate change - here illuminated by anthropologist and ... author: Brian Fagan


			The Heat is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the Prescription (The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A passionate and candid account of the science and politics of the global warming debate. author: Ross Gelbspan



			The Hive Detectives - Chronicle of a Honey Bee CatastropheClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A fascinating, close-up look at honey bees, as well as the scientists and beekeepers trying to understand colony collapse disorder (CCD). See the inner workings of the colony and learn about the steps... author: Loree Griffin Burns


			The Human Story - Our Evolution From Prehistoric Ancestors to TodayClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Covering the six million years since our earliest ancestors (the first apes that walked upright) emerged, paleobiologist Christopher Sloan takes the reader on a scientific trek through human prehistor... author: Christopher Sloan


			The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and HumansClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A journey back 45 million years into our evolutionary roots and a reconstruction of humans' extended family tree. author: Chris Beard


			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 Incredible Journey of the Butterflies (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. NOVA flies along with the monarchs on their incredible 2000-mile journey across North America, documenting the dangers they face along the way. Interviews with scientists studying this amazing feat of... author: NOVA



			The Insect SocietiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects ? ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. As Wilson writes in the introduction, ?Why do we stud... author: Edward O. Wilson


			The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The story of Luke Howard, an amateur English meteorologist who named the clouds in 1802 (cumulus, cirrus, stratus) and gained international fame. Combines the history of science with an entertaining ... author: Richard Hamblyn


			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 Joy of Science (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Professor Robert M. Hazen, an advocate of science education for non-scientists, gives 60 engaging thirty-minute lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all the physical and... author: The Teaching Company


			The Least of These: Wild Baby Bird Rescue StoriesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Each chapter is an inspiring short story about someone who took action to help a young bird. Accompanied by stunning illustrations by the author and natural history information. Includes: Sharp-shinne... author: Joan Harris



			The Life of Birds (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Originally released in 1998 as a television series of ten episodes. David Attenborough journeys across seven continents filming thousands of species of birds, revealing their patterns of behavior. author: David Attenborough


			The Life of Mammals (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on this planet. From the smallest to the largest, from the slowest to the fastest, from the least attractive to the most irresistible. L... author: David Attenborough


			The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year UpdateClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. In 1972 the original Limits to Growth was published, to worldwide notice and acclaim. Using a computer model, the authors looked toward the future and sounded an alarm about the consequences of unche... author: Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows


			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 Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A look inside the world of the scientists, artists and inventors who ushered in the Industrial Revolution. author: Jenny Uglow



			The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of EvolutionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes how scientists are using DNA as a living record of evolution and their surprising findings. author: Sean B. Carroll


			The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were MadeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Chronicles the life of A.C. Gilbert, a man who never lost his boy-at-heart, and was the inventor of the Erector Sets, as well as an Olympic pole-vaulter, magician, doctor, marketing genius, and radio ... author: Bruce Watson


			The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical TruthClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An engaging biography of the eccentric , homeless, and brilliant mathematician Paul Erdös, who travelled the world in pursuit of his love of numbers. author: Paul Hoffman


			The Man Who Made Time TravelClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Describes the need for 18th century sailors to be able to determine their position at sea, and the British government's creation of the Longitude Prize for anyone who could create an accurate and reli... author: Kathryn Lasky


			The Man-Eating Tigers of SundarbansClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The Sundarbans Reserve along the Bay of Bengal is home to more tigers than anywhere else on earth - close to 500. Nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people, yet here in the Sundarbans Rese... author: Sy Montgomery



			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 Mysteries of Beethoven's HairClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Tracks a lock of Beethoven's hair from the time of his death, through three generations as a family's keepsake, into Nazi-occupied Denmark, to a London auction house and forensic testing in the 1990?s... author: Russell Martin, Lydia Nibley


			The Mysterious Universe - Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black HolesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Follow scientist Alex Filippenko as he uses two of the most powerful telescopes in the world to search the heavens, hoping to unlock some of the most spectacular secrets of the universe. Learn about ... author: Ellen Jackson


			The Mystery of MarsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A detailed overview of what we know about Mars, how we learned it, and what is to come in future explorations (note: this book was published in 1999, and so is not up-to-date). Contains photos and o... author: Sally Ride & Tam O'Shaughnessy



			The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of MonogamyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An exploration of the complex courtship, mating rituals, and parenting behavior of wild birds. Includes species accounts from around the world and Heinrich's New England home. Through the description ... author: Bernd Heinrich


			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 North Pole Was Here - Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin accompanies a team of scientists studying global warming to the North Pole, and this amazing book chronicles his adventures as well as their work. Includes accou... author: Andrew C. Revkin


			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 PlanetsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. In a series of short essay-style chapters, Sobel intertwines her long-standing interest (from the age of eight) and love of the planets with science, geology, mineralogy, history, mythology, astrology... author: Dava Sobel


			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 Privilege of Being a PhysicistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A collection of essays by the elder statesman of physics, Victor Weisskopf. Includes his thoughts on teaching science, art and science, science and society, science and culture, the frontiers and limi... author: Victor F. Weisskopf


			The Race to Save the Lord God BirdClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A story sweeping 200 years of history including artists, specimen collectors, lumber barons, plume hunters, pioneering biologists, and the parts they all played in the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's presum... author: Phillip Hoose


			The Riddle of the DinosaurClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Updated theories about dinosaurs based on new evidence. Also a history of paleontologists search to unearth the natural history of the dinosaurs.Includes 34 black & white illustrations and 7 full-colo... author: John Noble Wilford



			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 Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The story of the search for the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, for which the Clay Institute put up a $1 million prize in 2001, and of the mathematicians who have worked to solve it. Also a rare inti... author: Karl Sabbagh


			The Salmon Bears - Giants of the Great Bear RainforestClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The Great Bear Rainforest on British Columbia's central coast is home to one of the world's last significant populations of wild bears: grizzlies, black bears and spirit bears. Illustrated with stunn... author: Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read


			The Sandwalk AdventuresClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. In this graphic novel story, Darwin engages in conversations with the follicle mites that live in his left eyebrow. The mites have been raised on many myths, one of which being that Darwin is a god. ... author: Jay Hosler


			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 Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and BodiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Amazing photos and illuminating text describe the inner workings and micro-visitors of a family on a typical day. author: David Bodanis


			The Selfish GeneClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A beautifully written account of genetics. Clear, concise, rewarding to both the scientist and non-scientist. author: Richard Dawkins


			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 Sibley Guide to BirdsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Beautifully illustrated guide to the birds of North America. A National Audubon Society book. author: David Allen Sibley


			The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of the HMS ChallengerClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A captivating account of the 1872 voyage of the HMS Challenger to map the ocean floor. Filled with adventure, mishap, and pioneering discoveries. author: Richard Corfield



			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 Story of Science - Einstein Adds a New DimensionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Though it sometimes seems like scientific knowledge just comes fully formed, Hakim?s book explores that hard-won knowledge ? how anyone ever figured it out, and even why anyone was wondering about it ... author: Joy Hakim


			The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & PictogramsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Examines the major writing systems of the world and the interconnection between sound, symbol and script. Includes over 350 illustrations, 50 in color. author: Andrew Robinson


			The Strongest Boy in the World - How Genetic Information is Reshaping Our LivesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Reilly, a physician, geneticist and lawyer, presents twenty fascinating stories in his book that explore the possible impacts of genetics on the longevity and fitness of humans, the treatment of disea... author: Philip R. Reilly


			The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A fascinating account of the discovery of the bacteria-evolved extemophiles, archaea. author: John L. Howland



			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 Tarantula ScientistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An in-depth look at the world's largest and hairiest spiders, the tarantulas. Follows spider scientist, Sam Marshall, through the rainforest of French Guiana and into the largest comparative spider la... author: Sy Montgomery


			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 Universe in a NutshellClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An accessible, thought -provoking, and wonderfully illustrated sequel to A Brief History of Time. A continuation of that journey, with Hawking's as guide, to unlock the secrets of the universe. Inclu... author: Stephen Hawking


			The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever LivedClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An illustrated introduction to the classification of organisms. author: Colin Tudge



			The View from Lazy PointClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. From the author's website: In this intertwined story , Carl Safina shows us that nature and human dignity require each other. The View from Lazy Point follows the arc of the seasons from Carl Safina?s... author: Carl Safina


			The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the OceanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A gripping account of the largest ocean waves ever documented and the scientists and extreme surfers who chase them. An SOS by a British research vessel trapped in the North Atlantic by gigantic waves... author: Susan Casey


			The Weather SkyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A study of weather patterns and clouds that occur in the Earth's temperate climates. Full-color photos of the sky and clouds, arranged by season, are supplemented by black and white illustrations sho... author: Bruce McMillan


			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 Wind at Work: An Activity Guide to WindmillsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. An introduction to windmills and their advantages as renewable energy providers, with activities for understanding some of the principles of wind. author: Gretchen Woelfle



			The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human OriginsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A firsthand account of Walker's discovery of the best specimen of Homo erectus, the evolutionary link between primates and humans, an his investigation of the nature of the species. author: Alan Walker & Pat Shipman


			The World Through Maps: A History of CartographyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. A history of maps and mapmakers from around the world and through time; includes cultural attitudes, scientific development, and colonization. Includes hundreds of stunning color illustrations & repro... author: John Rennie Short


			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


			Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in AmericaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Decribes the introduction and impact of non-native species in the United States. Includes, among others, the fascinating stories of the honeybee, starling, ladybug, sea lamprey and reindeer. author: Kim Todd



			Tooth and Claw - Animal Adventures in the WildClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Author/illustrator Ted Lewin relates 14 of his encounters with wild animals while traveling the world. Each story is followed with facts about the featured animal and its habitat. Black and white ph... author: Ted Lewin


			Touch the Sun - A NASA Braille BookClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Companion to Grice's Touch the Universe, this book once again pairs color photographs with tactile renderings of the images. Text in Braille and print. "Visually impaired astronomers ? whether exper... author: Noreen Grice


			Touch the Universe - A NASA Braille Book of AstronomyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. Combines Braille and large-print captions with 14 pages of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope (photos are raised/embossed). Photos begin with Earth and proceed through the solar system, ending wi... author: Noreen Grice


			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


			Two-Fisted ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. In graphic novel format, this book gives a sense of what important scientists through the ages were like. The characters are all based on historical figures and true accounts of their lives, with some... author: Jim Ottaviani



			Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the HeavensClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link. The story of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe and his assistant Johannes Kepler. Though Tycho?s system of the universe maintained that the earth stood still, and Kepler believed Copernicus?s revo... author: Kitty Ferguson

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