Book Reviews
- Amir D. Aczel: God's Equation
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- David E. Alexander: On the Wing*
Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
- David Archer: The Long Thaw*
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
- Frances Ashcroft: Life at the Extremes
The Science of Survival
- Friedrich G. Barth: Insects and Flowers*
The Biology of a Partnership
- R. Barker Bausell: Snake Oil Science
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- David Beerling: The Emerald Planet*
How Plants Changed Earth's History
- David Blockley: Bridges
The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures
- William H. Calvin: The Cerebral Code
Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
- Donald E. Canfield: Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
- deep time geobiochemistry
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza: The Great Human Diasporas*
The History of Diversity and Evolution
- Paul M. Churchland: The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul
A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
- Vincent Courtillot: Evolutionary Catastrophes
The Science of Mass Extinctions
- David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
- a broad survey aimed at a popular audience
- David Crystal: Language Death
- threats to languages and approaches to revitalization
- Paul Davies: The Mind of God
- can physics answer everything?
- Richard Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable
- a popular introduction to evolution
- Andrew E. Dessler, Edward A. Parson: The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change
A Guide to the Debate
- Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes: Celestial Encounters
The Origins of Chaos and Stability
- Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel*
The Fates of Human Societies
- Thomas Eisner: For Love of Insects**
- the grand synthesis of a veteran scientist
- Niles Eldredge: Reinventing Darwin*
The Great Evolutionary Debate
- Gary William Flake: The Computational Beauty of Nature**
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
- Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman: Rhythms of Life*
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
- Tijs Goldschmidt: Darwin's Dreampond
Drama in Lake Victoria
- James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould: The Honey Bee*
- senses, communication, navigation, learning, and more
- Stephen Jay Gould: Bully for Brontosaurus*
Further Reflections in Natural History
- Stephen Jay Gould: Dinosaur in a Haystack*
- his seventh volume of essays; still getting better!
- Stephen Jay Gould: Wonderful Life
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- Mel Greaves: Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy*
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
- Steven S. Grubser, Frans Pretorius: The Little Book of Black Holes
- from basic physics to collision observations
- Sandra Hempel: The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
- George W. Hudler: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds
- fungi and their influence on our lives
- David Johnson: The Geology of Australia*
- an excellent introduction for the lay reader
- Ian Johnston: Measured Tones*
The Interplay of Physics and Music
- Olivia Judson: Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation*
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
- Simon Lamb: Devil in the Mountain
A Search for the Origin of the Andes
- Sarah Lazarus: Troubled Waters
The Changing Fortunes of Whales and Dolphins
- Roger Lewin: Bones of Contention*
Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
- Richard Lewontin: Human Diversity**
- the realities of human biological variation
- Juan Luis Arsuaga: The Neanderthal's Necklace*
In Search of the First Thinkers
- David JC MacKay: Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air
- the constraints on powering the United Kingdom
- Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson: The (Mis)behavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
- Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: Microcosmos
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
- Brian McConnell: Beyond Contact
A Guide to SETI and Communicating With Alien Worlds
- Kenneth J. McNamara: Shapes of Time*
The Evolution of Growth and Development
- John McPhee: Annals of the Former World**
- travels across the United States with geologists
- H.W. Menard: Islands*
- and atolls, banks, and guyots
- Elaine Morgan: The Descent of the Child
Human Evolution From a New Perspective
- Elaine Morgan: The Scars of Evolution
What Our Bodies Tell Us about Human Origins
- Randall Munroe: Thing Explainer
Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
- Jayant V. Narlikar: The Lighter Side of Gravity
- a popular introduction to the physics behind astronomy
- Jason Parisi, Justin Ball: The Future of Fusion Energy*
- the science, engineering, history and politics
- Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct
The New Science of Language and Mind
- John Postgate: The Outer Reaches of Life*
- bacteria in extreme environments
- Geoffrey K. Pullum: The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
And Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
- David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo*
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- Riccardo Rebonato: Plight of the Fortune Tellers*
Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
- Steven Rose: The Making of Memory
From Molecules to Mind
- Mike Searle: Colliding Continents
A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet
- David Shenk: The Genius in All of Us
Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and Intelligence is Wrong
- Pat Shipman: Taking Wing*
Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
- Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst: Trick or Treatment?
Alternative Medicine on Trial
- Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont: Intellectual Impostures
Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
- David G. Stork: HAL's Legacy
2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan*
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Henk Tennekes: The Simple Science of Flight*
From Insects to Jumbo Jets
- Chris Turney: Bones, Rocks and Stars
The Science of When Things Happened
- Mary E. White: After the Greening**
- a geological and botanical history of Australia
- Marlene Zuk: Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
See also:
biology |
evolution |
geology |
linguistics |
mathematics |
physics