jdupuis | December 17, 2012Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Amazon.co.uk Non-Fiction Best of 2012
Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patientsby Ben Goldacre
Seventeen Equations that Changed the Worldby Ian Stewart
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can'…
jdupuis | December 17, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Wall Street Journal Science, Business, Travel, Military History, Non-Fiction.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has…
jdupuis | December 16, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Audubon Magazine’s 2012 List of Notable Books.
In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders and Their Guides by Thomas R. Dunlap
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
How to Be a Better Birder by Derek…
jdupuis | December 16, 2012Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
The Smithsonian
The Social Conquest of Earthby E.O. Wilson
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healingby Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and…
jdupuis | December 14, 2012
Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives
The OA Interviews: Harvard’s Stuart Shieber (Pay special note to the comment by Sandy Thatcher and the devastating fisking of it by Stuart Shieber. And by devastating, I mean dev. a. sta. ting.)
Questioning Clay Shirky
Shirky, Bady and For-Profit Higher Ed
Unlikely Pairing? (liberal arts schools get into moocs)
A New (Kind of) Scholarly Press (An open access university press)
Can researchers protect their open data?
Visualizing the Uniqueness, and Conformity, of Libraries (cool…
jdupuis | December 14, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Economist.
Ivory, Apes & Peacocks: Animals, Adventure and Discovery in the Wild Places of Africa by Alan Root
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
The Origins of Sex: A History of the First…
jdupuis | December 14, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Library Journal Consumer Health, Memoir, Science & Technology.
No Time To Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Piot, Peter
Hallucinations by Sacks, Oliver
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart…
jdupuis | December 13, 2012Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
The Atlantic Books of the Year 2012: The Top 5 and the Runners Up
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall
CNNMoney
Abundance: The future is better than you thinkby Peter Diamandis
Inside…
jdupuis | December 7, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Kirlus Reviews: Current Affairs & Social Sciences, Biography, History, Science & Nature.
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by…
jdupuis | December 5, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Booklist Online Top 10 Science and Health Books.
The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds by Julie Zickefoose
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding…
jdupuis | December 5, 2012
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: MOOCs
The future of libraries is...
The impact of open access on librarians
A People’s History of MOOCs
The Greatest Course You’ll Ever Teach
Why Are Cable Companies Forcing People to Turn to Piracy? (or not.)
How Historians Earn Tenure and The 5-Year Humanities Ph.D.
Failing to Make the Sale (researchers don't promote their own impact on society)
Cautionary Tales About Collective Rights Organizations
Let's (Not) Do the Numbers (why do students need to use the library?)
Where is Library Technology going?
Build Your Own Open Access Journal: An Interview with Rob…
jdupuis | December 4, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Financial Times Best Books of 2012.
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and…
jdupuis | December 3, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors' Picks.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What…
jdupuis | December 2, 2012
Out of sight, out of existence: How lack of public awareness hurts Canadian science
Outcry Grows Over Canadian Govt's Undermining of Climate Science
What matters and what doesn't: open thoughts on academia
Stop the silence, and some suggested reading (more about the state of academia)
Changing Culture in Higher Education
Personal Editorial: Managing High Potential Employees in Libraries: The Rock Star Dillemma
The Internet of the Dead (The traces dead people leave on the Internet)
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
The entrepreneurial library
How can we build a future…
jdupuis | December 1, 2012
50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science and the response Dr. Fields at the Huffington Post is wrong on open access and another Great Expectations For Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Helping Science
Open access: why academic publishers still add value and the response Academic publishers need better defenders
Mobile vs. Social
Let’s Kill the Term Paper
I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem
Who Says Online Courseware Will Cause the Death of Universities?
Amazon’s Diminishing Discounts
Why scientists should care about…
jdupuis | November 30, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Boing Boing Gift Guide.
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science by Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski and David Macaulay
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Illustrated Guide to Home…
jdupuis | November 29, 2012Like the old saying goes, information wants to be free. In particular, the consumers of information would prefer for the most part not to have to directly pay for the information they are consuming. The information itself, if I may anthropomorphize for a moment, also wants to circulate as freely as possible, to be as consumed as widely as possible, to be as highly regarded as possible. That way it gets to be the information that "wins" the best-used-most-used information sweepstakes.
This seems to me to be a first principle for scholarly communications. Both the users of the information and…
jdupuis | November 28, 2012Or, more precisely, a university designed by libertarians.
Over the last number of months, I've featured a fair bit of apocalyptic MOOC Disruptionism in my regular Around the Web posts. Recently, the libertarian think tank, The Cato Institute (Wikipedia) via their Cato Unbound site, has put online a series of essays discussing just how the traditional academic system can be radically reworked and rethought via a highly commercialized online academy. It's interesting because they've also included some responses questioning their assumptions and the overall MOOC triumphalism that's floating…
jdupuis | November 27, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: New York Times 100 Notable Books.
Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate by Ivor Noël Hume
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stot
The Folly…
jdupuis | November 27, 2012Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein is a short book. I wish I could say it was also a sharp shock of a book, but not quite. This is a classic case of a book that cries out to be shorter -- in this case from a decent slim hardcover reduced down to probably what could have been a terrific Kindle Single-sized book, something we're finally able to produce, consume and reward appropriately in the Internet age.
So what's the book about? It's basically a philosophy of science book designed for a mass audience, making the core and very valid point that science doesn't advance from…