Science

Submitted by jlaroche on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:02
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  • The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Park, Robert L.
  • Science Without Laws, Giere, Ronald N. Q175.G48898 1999

  • Information Theory
  • Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers, Cotterill, Rodney QA76.87.C685 1998
  • Intelligence Through Simulated Evolution, Fogel, Lawrence J. QA76.618.F64 1999
  • Unifying Scientific Concepts,
  • Morrison, Margaret QC 794.6 G7 M67

  • Mathematics
  • The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation, Flake, Gary William QA76.6.F557 1998

  • Astronomy
  • Carl Sagan: a Life, Davidson, Keay QB36.S15D38 1999
  • Carl Sagan: a Life in the Cosmos, Poundstone, Wiliam QB36.S15P68 1999
  • Cosmic Bullets: High Energy Particles In Astrophysics, Clay, Roger and Bruce Dawson, QB461.C62 1998
  • Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love, Sobel, Dava QB36.G2S65 1999
  • Here Be Dragons, Koerner, David & LeVey, Simon

  • Physics
  • Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space, Genz, Henning QC6.G4613 1999
  • Physicists in Conflict from Antiquity to the New Millenium, Porter, Neil A.
  • The Quest For Unity: the Adventure of Physics, Klein, and Lachieze-Rey, QC7.K5413 1999
  • Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Physics, Johnson, George QC774.G45J65 1999

  • Evolution
  • Fossils & Evolution, Kemp, T. S. QE721.2 E85 K46 1999

  • Biology
  • The Biology of Doom, Regis, Ed
  • The Deep Hot Bio-sphere, Gold, Thomas
  • Genes, Peoples, and Languages, Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
  • GN 281.C385 1999
  • Genome
  • The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Ridley, Matt
  • The Spark of Life, Wills, Christopher & Bada, Jeffrey
  • QH325. W544 2000
  • Spirit in the Gene
  • Humanity's Proud Illusion and Laws of Nature, Morrison, Reg
  • The Energy of life
  • The Science of What Makes our Minds and Bodies Work, Brown, Guy
  • QP 517.B54 B76 2000
  • Symbiotic Planet, A New View of Evolution, Margolis, Lynn

  • Natural History
  • The Biology of Doom
  • The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project, Regis, Ed
  • UG447.8.R44 1999
  • The Birth of the Cell, Harris, Henry QH577.H37 1999
  • Born That Way: Genes, Behaviour, Personality, Wright, William QH431.W785 1998
  • The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs, Avise, John QH437.A95 1998

  • Zoology
  • Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Stuart G. Shankar and Talbot J. Taylor QL737 .P96S254 1998
  • If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness, Budiansky, Stephen QL785.B823 1998

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression, Barondes, Samuel H. RC537.B3385 1995
  • The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity, Linden, Eugene
  • Ql 785. l725 1999
  • Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, Ramachandran, V. S. RC351.R24 1998
  • Wild Minds
  • What Animals Really think, Hauser, Mark D.

  • Physiology
  • The Second Brain: the Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct and a Groundbreaking New Understanding of Stomach and Bowel, Gershon, Michael QP145.G33 1998
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I invite anyone who has read any of these to leave their opinion. Suggestions for similar books are welcome.

andrea09/28/2000

I tend to avoid books about science because I'm afraid they'll be too dry or that I won't understand the explanations. But, I just read Origins Reconsidered by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, about human evolution. It was very interesting and readable.