best science books 2010
jdupuis | October 6, 2011A real straggler of a list for your reading and collection development pleasure.
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, andAll the Restof Life's Undulations by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian…
jdupuis | August 16, 2011I just got an email from the administers of this award:
$10,000 Lane Anderson Award Shortlist Announced
Celebrating the Best Science Writing in Canada
The six finalists competing for the 2010 Lane Anderson Award were announced today by Hollister Doll and Sharon Fitzhenry, Directors of the Fitzhenry Family Foundation.
The annual Lane Anderson Award honours two jury-selected books, in the categories of adult and young reader, published in the field of science, and written by a Canadian. The winner in each category will receive $10,000. Winners will be announced on 14th September.
"We want to…
jdupuis | March 1, 2011The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (TILoHL) by Rebecca Skloot was far and away the top science book of the year in my Best Science Books 2010: The top books of the year post from last month. In that post I took all the Best Science Books 2010 posts and tallied up the books with the most mentions. TILoHL was mentioned in 41 out of the 60 lists I found. The next highest was 17 mentions for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
So, a pretty decisive victory. TILoHL was by far the best reviewed science book of the year.
What was interesting to me was…
jdupuis | February 2, 2011Every year for the last few years I've collected lists of notable science books from various media sources. I certainly continued this tradition for books published in 2010! I can tell it's a very popular service from the hit stats I see for the blog and from the number of keyword searches on "science books 2010" or whatnot I see in the logs.
Last year I started taking all the lists and tallying up all the "votes" to see which are the most mentioned books from the year. An interesting exercise, to say the least! While the "winner" wasn't in any sense the best book of the year, it was…
jdupuis | January 29, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
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…
jdupuis | January 27, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World by Stan Cox
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance…
jdupuis | January 26, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted by Nick Bilton
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
A Lab of My…
jdupuis | January 21, 2011Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
USA Today
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Chicago Sun-Times
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns & Ellen Harasimowicz.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science by Sean Connolly
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in…
jdupuis | January 20, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson
Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... Via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains and Planes by Carl Hoffman
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joseph Kittinger by Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan
More Show Me How: Everything We Couldn't Fit in the First Book by Lauren Smith and…
jdupuis | January 13, 2011Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Australian
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Independent
Bad Ideas?: An arresting history of our inventions: How Our Finest Inventions Nearly Finished Us Off by Robert M. L. Winston
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society: 350 Years of the Royal Society and Scientific Endeavour by Bill Bryson
January Magazine
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby
Here's Looking at Euclid: A…
jdupuis | January 12, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Present At The Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider by Amir Aczel
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample
Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book…
jdupuis | January 11, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
What…
jdupuis | January 10, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, From Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond by John Powell
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets…
jdupuis | January 6, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media…
jdupuis | January 6, 2011Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
US News & World Report
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
WGBH/Harvard Book Store
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Seattle Times
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" by John Vaillant
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If…
jdupuis | January 5, 2011Another couple of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
I've tended not to highlight individual people's bloggy lists that much here, just for the sake of my sanity and so as not to go too crazy with the number of posts, but I thought that these two list were interesting enough to merit inclusion. I've done it before, maybe I'll do it again!
Jennifer Ouellette
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn McKenna
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by…
jdupuis | January 5, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is from the December 5, 2010 edition of the Sunday Times. Unfortunately, I can't link to it because they have a paywall between me and the content. I did, however, get access to the full text via one of our article databases. Yay Academic OneFile!
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose
The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? by Paul Davies
Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project by Victor K…
jdupuis | December 31, 2010Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Toronto Star
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Time
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
GalleyCat
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in…
jdupuis | December 30, 2010Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin with David Quammen
The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
Star Vistas: A Collection of Fine Art Astrophotography by Greg Parker and Noel Carboni
America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years by Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, Constance Moore, and Bertram Ulrich
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of…
jdupuis | December 29, 2010Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Wichita Eagle
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Daily Beast
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel (and here)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
The…