Best Science Books 2009: San Francisco Chronicle

By jdupuis on January 6, 2010.

A nice list from the SF Chronicle:

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric W. Sanderson

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