Best Science Books 2009: The Independant

By jdupuis on December 18, 2009.

I've cobbled together this list from three lists from The Independent: Nature & Environment, Biography and History.

The Running Sky: A bird-watching life by Tim Dee
Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo by Michael McCarthy
Edible Seashore: river cottage handbook no. 5 by John Wright
Logicomix: an epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna
Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar

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