Best Science Books 2009: Quill & Quire

A few nice items from the Canadian book industry magazine, Quill & Quire:

  • Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization by Jeff Rubin
  • Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds by Trevor Herriot
  • Slow Death by Robber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, with Sarah Dopp

More like this

One of the most interesting lists every year is The Globe and Mail's Globe 100, and this year is no exception. There's relevant stuff all over the spectrum, from biography to history to graphic novels to popular science to the environment. In the print version, the categories are pretty basic:…
I read these five books over about the last year or so and they all represent something I really look for in books on complex subjects -- for the most part, they concentrate on things individual people can actually do to make a difference. In this case, a difference in the future of the planet.…
For the last little while I've been compiling lists from various media sources giving their choices for the best books of 2009. Some of the lists have been from general media sources, in which case I've just extracted the science-related books. From science publications, I've included most or all…
I haven't done one of these in a while, so there's quite a backlog to clear. Reports Digital Scholarly Communication: A Snapshot of Current Trends Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing: Reality Is a Sober Adversary Library Storage Facilities and the…