Science Reading List

Environmental

• 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)

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

• 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)