Best Science Books 2010: Financial Times

Another nice list.

  • The Facebook Effect: The Insider Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
  • MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
  • How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
  • Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
  • The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? by Paul Davies
  • Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher
  • The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
  • Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D Seeley
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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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