best science books 2011
jdupuis | December 9, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
New Statesman
Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
Great Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard
National Book Award
Radioactive:…
jdupuis | December 8, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Independent Biography: Near-deaths and divine rebirths, History: Countries of the mind, Science & Nature: Planetary possibilities.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by…
jdupuis | December 5, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Guardian Books for giving: science, Biography, History, Nature.
Incoming!: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite by Ted Nield
Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey…
jdupuis | December 5, 2011First the good news.
Saturday's Toronto Star had a really nice little piece on the trend among some Toronto-area science grad students to get a sign of their scientific passion tattooed onto their bodies.
T.D. MacDonald fact-checked the design five times before he let one drop of ink penetrate his skin.
"I didn't want to have an incorrect chemical structure on my body," he says, recounting the long hours he spent creating his tattoo. "The way it is oriented in space had to be right."
That his ink is accurate matters to him, of course.
But few of us would know the strangely beautiful tattoo…
jdupuis | December 2, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Library Journal Business, Consumer Health, Sci-Tech.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Stephen Levy
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Your Medical Mind: How To Decide What Is…
jdupuis | December 1, 2011Another couple 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Indigo Best of 2011: Books
The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How…
jdupuis | November 30, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Booklist Online Biography, Environment, Business.
Galileo by John Heilbron
American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park; What Our Gardens Tell Us about Who We Are by Wade Graham
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig,…
jdupuis | November 29, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Boing Boing Gift Guide 2011.
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army &…
jdupuis | November 28, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Financial Times.
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaeser
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops…
jdupuis | November 28, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Globe 100.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet by Tim Flannery
The…
jdupuis | November 24, 2011Another 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.
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 technology innovation. Deciding what is and isn't a science book…
jdupuis | November 23, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011.
The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown
Destiny of the Republic: A…
jdupuis | November 22, 2011Another 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.
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 technology innovation. Deciding what is and isn't a science book…
jdupuis | November 18, 2011It is time. The season of lists begins!
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.
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 technology innovation…