best science books 2010
jdupuis | December 3, 2010One of the more interesting lists every year is Strategy + Business because it gives a good selection of internet technology/innovation and social media books. I drew from various of their lists: Top Shelf, Leadership, China and Innovation.
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future by Elizabeth C. Economy
Cognitive…
jdupuis | December 2, 2010Another 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…
jdupuis | November 30, 2010This 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…
jdupuis | November 27, 2010If The New York Times list is the big one in the US and probably over all, then the Globe list is the big one in Canada. Interestingly, it's another list that's been a bit spotty on science coverage in the past but that seems to have reformed it's ways.
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks…
jdupuis | November 26, 2010Another list, this time from the Chapters.Indigo.ca site.
The Tiger: A True Story Of Vengeance And Survival by John Vaillant
The Wave: In The Pursuit Of The Rogues, Freaks And Giants Of The Ocean by Susan Casey
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries,…
jdupuis | November 25, 2010It's the big one, probably the most important "best of" list of the year -- The New York Times. Often a bit spotty on it's science-y coverage, let's see how they fare this year:
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde
Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food By Paul Greenberg
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality by…
jdupuis | November 24, 2010A couple more shorts lists.
HistoryNet
Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad by Walter Borneman
DC-3: A Legend In Her Time-A 75th Anniversary Photographic Tribute by Bruce McAllister
Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas that Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq By Stephen Budiansky
O Magazine
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see…
jdupuis | November 22, 2010A few lists with only a few relevant items each.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Telegraph (History)
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
Chasing the Sun: the Epic Story of the Star that Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen
Library Journal (Notable books) & Top 10
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Valliant
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science…
jdupuis | November 19, 2010Another list for your reading and collection development pleasure. This one concentrates on more business-y books so I've only chosen the ones that relate more to social media/technology. It's 10 Business Books In 2010 from Cloud Computing.
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li
The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations by Vinnie Mirchandani
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick…
jdupuis | November 18, 2010Another list for your reading and collection development pleasure, drawn from Amazon UK Business, Amazon UK History and Amazon UK Science & Nature.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There by Sinclair McKay
Wonders of the Solar System by Brian Cox
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
The Natural History Book by DK
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by…
jdupuis | November 11, 2010Another list for your reading and collection development perusal, this time from Publisher's Weekly:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
About a Mountain by John D'Agata
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error by Kathryn Schulz
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
Origins: How the Nine Months Before…
jdupuis | November 10, 2010It has begun. The annual year's best science books posting orgy!
Every year for the past 4 or 5 years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best books" lists that appear in various media outlets and highlighting the science books that are mentioned. From the beginning it's been a pretty popular service so I'm happy to continue it.
For my purposes, I define science books pretty broadly to include science, engineering, computing, history & philosophy of science & technology, environment, social aspects of science and even business books about technology trends or…