The New Zealand Listener has a few good suggestions from two different categories: Science and Journalism & Essays.
- The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Innocents in the Dry Valley: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59 by Colin Bull
- On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction by Brian Boyd
- The Best of New Zealand Geographic: Exploring our Land and Culture
- Log in to post comments
More like this
A big list of 35 titles in various categories: Astronomy, Biography, Biology, Climatology, Environmental Science, Evolution, Geology, Health Sciences, History of Science, Mathematics, Natural History, Neurology, Oceanography, Paleontology, Physics, Psychology, Science, Technology, Zoology.
This…
A pretty extensive list from The London Times, across multiple categories: science, stocking stuffers, biography, graphic novels and nature.
Mad Science: 100 Amazing Experiments From The History Of Science by Reto Schneider
How To Make A Tornado: The Strange And Wonderful Things That Happen When…
In yesterday's Washington Post, I reviewed The Art Instinct, a new book by Denis Dutton that uses evolutionary psychology to explain the odd human obsession with making art:
The list of cultural universals -- those features that recur in every human society, from remote rainforest tribes to modern…
A nice selection from the Financial Times, spread across a few categories.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by PW Singer
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by…