Booklist magazine just named its Top 10 Science Books of the year. The Dover Public Library has all of the wide-ranging titles:
The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters by Rose George
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey through Your Brain by David Bainbridge
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food by Gene Baur
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni
The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog by Nancy Ellis-Bell
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It by Robert Zimmerman
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Thanks for this, that's a great list. One request for future lists: can you make sure the links don't have a "sessionid" in them? Otherwise it logs a person out whenever they click on the link, which means I have to log back in for every book I want to add.
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