Science Reading List
Environmental
- 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
- 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)