A nice list from a bunch of categories from the Washington Post, although some of items in the the science section seem strangely unscientific:
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
- The Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus
- A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary by Andrew Levy
- The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
- The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic by Alan Sipress
- Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
- The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers
- Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It by Lise Eliot
- Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention by Stanislas Dehaene
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
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I finally broke down and bought myself The Age of Wonder. Can hardly wait to read it!
Definitely. I'm doing a count of all the recommendations in all the lists I'm compiling and Age of Wonders is clearly leading the pack, with the Dirac bio a bit behind. I think I'll be reading Age of Wonders pretty soon myself.
Wow! I totally missed that Lise Eliot has a new book out. Her "What's going on in there?" was essentially a textbook on neurodevelopment disguised as an advice book for parents. I definitely mean that as a compliment. This will definitely be on my to-read list.
Thanks. I just picked up Age of Wonders myself. Luckily, here in the Great White North we get the British pb edition.
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