This list is from SFGate / San Francisco Chronicle and is drawn from their nonfiction, architecture and nature lists.
- The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
- Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
- City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century by John Lund Kriken
- Float!: Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change by Koen Olthuis and David Keuning
- Bird Songs Bible: The Complete Illustrated Reference for North American Birds edited by Les Beletsky
- Rivers of California: Nature's Lifelines in the Golden State by Tim Palmer
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.
Earlier entries in this year's list of lists can be found here and the 2009 summary post here.
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Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is the Holiday Reading list from the Toronto Star Public Policy Forum, picked from individual lists in today's print newspaper.
I wasn't really sure of quite how to start this off. I finally decided to just dive right in with a simple function definition, and then give you a bit of a tour of how Haskell works by showing the different ways of implementing it.
Along with tacky an inescapable Christmas music, December brings lists, as every publication that deals with music at all puts out their own compilation of songs or albums of the year.
Humans readily establish false memories. If you give adults a study list of words like hot, snow, warm, winter, ice, wet, chilly, weather, heat, freeze, shiver, frost, and then test them later, they will "remember" related words like cold that weren't actually on the list.
Largehearted Boy's list of lists is fantastic.
What was your favorite science book in 2010? Mine has to be THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. I have read a number of good science books for kids, too, including several Scientists in the Field titles like PROJECT SEAHORSE and KAKAPO RESCUE. Both have plenty appeal for grown-up readers.