Science Reading List
Environmental
- The World
Without Us (Weisman)
- An
Inconvenient Truth (Gore)
- Silent Spring
(Carson)
- Our Stolen
Future (Colburn, Dumanoski)
- Earth in the
Balance (Gore)
- The Hole in
the Sky (Gribbin)
- Global
Warming (Schneider)
- How Many
People Can the Earth Support? (Cohen)
- The Dying of
the Trees (Little)
- The Ages of
Gaia (Lovelock)
Neuroscience
- This is Your Brain on Music (Levitin)
- The Brain that Changes Itself (Doidge)
- In Search of Memory (Kandel)
- Molecules of Emotion (Pert)
- Synapses (Cowan, Sudhof,
Stevens eds.)
- The Ethical Brain (Gazzaniga)
- The Emperor of Scent (Burr)
Biochemistry/Biology
- The Double
Helix (Watson)
- Lives of a
Cell (Thomas)
- The Origin of
Species (Darwin)
- Wonderful
Life (Gould)
- The Diversity
of Life (E.O. Wilson)
- Conversations
with Neil's Brain (Calvin & Ojemann)
- Fractal
Geometry of Nature (Mandlebrot)
- Molecular
Design of Life (Lubert Stryer)
Astonomy/Physics/Materials Science
- E=mc2
(Bodanis)
- Cosmos (Sagan)
- The First
Three Minutes (Weinberg)
- Relativity
(Einstein)
- A Brief
History of Time (Hawking)
- In Search of Schrodinger's Cat (Gribbin)
- From Atoms to
Quarks (Trefil) or any of Trefil's
other books
- Chaos (Gleick)
- Waves and
Beaches (Bascomb)
- The Second
Law (Atkins)
- Designing the
Molecular World (Phillip Ball)
Biography
- The
Autobiography of Ben Franklin (Franklin)
- Marie Curie:
A Life (Susan Quinn)
- Force of
Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling
(Thomas Hager)
Miscellaneous Titles
- The Structure
of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn)
- The Making of
the Atomic Bomb (Rhodes)
- Chemistry
Imagined: Reflections on Science (Hoffman & Torrence)