Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors' Picks.
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change It by Charles Duhigg
- Geography of Blood, A: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage
- The End of Growth by Jeff Rubin
- The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos by Neil Turok
- Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe
- Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up most of my lists from Largehearted Boy.
For my purposes, I define science books pretty broadly to include science, engineering, computing, history & philosophy of science & technology, environment, social aspects of science and even business books about technology trends or technology innovation. Deciding what is and isn’t a science book is squishy at best, especially at the margins, but in the end I pick books that seem broadly about science and technology rather than something else completely. Lists of business, history or nature books are among the tricky ones.
And if you wish to support my humble list-making efforts, run on over to Amazon
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