science books
jdupuis | December 10, 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: Sustainable Cities Collective Best Books 2011.
Landscapes in Landscapes by Piet Oudolf
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment by Ann M. Wolfe
Field Notes from Science and Nature by Michael R. Canfield (Editor)…
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 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 21, 2011I like to think I'm developing a little niche here on Confessions of a Science Librarian, at least as far as some of my book reviews. And I like to think that niche is reviewing science-oriented graphic novels. And I've reviewed a few over the past couple of years. Logicomix (review), Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth (review) and The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA (review).
And now the amazing new graphic novel Feynman, written by Jim Ottaviani and art by Leland Myrick. (Colours by Hilary Sycamore).
Now when I first heard about this new biography of Richard Feynman…
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…
jdupuis | October 12, 2011Waaaaay back on September 20, I flew down to New York City to take part in one of the Science Online New York City panel discussions, this one on Enhanced eBooks & BookApps: the Promise and Perils (and here).
Ably organized and moderated by David Dobbs, the other panelists were Evan Ratliff, Amanda Moon, Carl Zimmer and Dean Johnson.
Here's a description of the panel:
Enhanced ebooks and tablet apps clearly offer new ways to present material and engage readers. Yet some of the software restrictions and rights deals that these ebooks, apps and their platforms use can make them unfriendly…
jdupuis | October 8, 2011Inspired by John Scalzi, I thought I'd poll all my readers out there and see what you are reading this weekend.
Books, magazines, blogs, whatever.
I'm reading Ross Macdonald's Meet Me at the Morgue for fiction, Gotham Central Book 1: In the Line of Duty by Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark in the graphic novel category and since I'm leading a book club session on it in a couple of weeks, I'm planning on spending a fair bit of time wth Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Magazine-wise, I'll be taking a look at the most recent issue of The New York Review of Science…
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 | September 26, 2011My 2011 summer reading was pretty meagre this year. For various reasons too boring to go into here, there wasn't much actually much vacation for me this summer. I think I'll probably have a better December/Christmas reading list than summer. Such is life.
Anyways, what I did read was pretty good, so let's get to it.
Bradbury, Ray and Ron Wimberly. Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011. 144pp. ISBN-13: 978-0809087464
Bradbury, Ray and Dennis Calero. Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation. New York…
jdupuis | September 17, 2011I announced the short list for the Lane Anderson Award a little while back and now the winners were announced here in Toronto a few nights ago:
Adult Titles Winner
The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Ecological Exploration into the Mysteries of Life by John Theberge and Mary Theberge. (McCelland & Stewart)
Young Readers Winner
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton. (Kids Can Press)
The complete list of nominees:
Adult Titles Shortlist
Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics by John W. Moffat. (Thomas Allen Publishers)
Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at…