Science-Book Challenge 2009

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The image is a portion of the fractal Mandelbrot set, created by Kevin Wong (source); Creative Commons License, used with permission. Please use this image in your own blog to publicize the 2009 Science-Book Challenge.

Read a book for science literacy!
The 2010 Challenge is now open;
please join us there.

The Science-Book Challenge is easy: read three science books in 2009, then tell others about the books you've read and help spread science literacy.

Reading about science--by which we mean to include engineering, mathematics, and technology, too--is fun and rewarding. We encourage others to read about science, and help potential readers find books that they will enjoy and profit from reading, by publishing our Book Notes, which are written by Ars Hermeneutica employees, volunteers, friends, and science-book challengers.

We're looking for science-book readers to help us help would-be science-book readers by sharing their own opinions about the science books they've read.

The 2009 Science-Book Challenge

Read at least three nonfiction books in 2009 related somehow to the theme "Nature's Wonders". Your books should have something to do with science, scientists, how science operates, or science's relationship with its surrounding culture. Your books might be popularizations of science, they might be histories, they might be biographies, they might be anthologies; they can be recent titles or older books. We take a very broad view of what makes for interesting and informative science reading.
After you've read a book, write a short note about it, giving your opinion of the book. What goes in the note? The things you would tell a friend if you wanted to convince your friend to read it--or avoid it. Naturally, you can read some of the existing Book Notes for ideas. You might like to read our Book-note ratings for ideas about how to evaluate your books.
Don't worry if you find that you've read a book someone else has also read; we welcome multiple notes on one title.
Get your book note to us and we'll post it with the other notes in our Book Note section. Use the book-note form or the comment form to get in touch with us.
Tell other people about the Science-Book Challenge: http://scienticity.net/wiki/Science_Book_Challenge.

Stuck for ideas about what books to read? Write to us and we'll help you identify some books that will match your interests.

If you'd like to sign up and make your participation in the Science-Book Challenge public, send us your name and a link to your blog, if you have one, using our comment form.

Please help us tell others, too! Use your own blog to spread the word; use our Science-Book Challenge 2009 graphic to make it pretty.

Happy reading!

The Science-Book Challengers

Everyone should feel free to accept the challenge any time before the end of 2009. Decide on your book list at the beginning or be more spontaneous and choose titles as you go. Let us know that you're taking the challenge and we'll put your name here with other challengers, along with updates about your notes as you contribute them. You can use the handy comment form to reach us. You might find it interesting to look at last year's list of challengers in the Science-Book Challenge 2008.

Here are the people we are aware of who have accepted the Science-Book Challenge 2009.

Challenger	Link	Titles & Links to Book Notes
Melwyk ( MK )	The Indextrious Reader	Gary Paul Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From : Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature : The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford Kitty Burns Florey, Script and Scribble : The Rise and Fall of Handwriting Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Jenny S.	n/a	spontaneous
Callista	SMS Book Reviews	spontaneous
Lynda ( LBB )	Lynda's Book Blog	Gabrielle Walker and David King, The Hot Topic : How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On New Scientist [magazine], Does Anything Eat Wasps? : And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions you Never Thought you Wanted to Ask New Scientist [magazine], Mick O’Hare, editor, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? : And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions about how the World Works
Violette Severin ( VS )	The Mystery Bookshelf	Robert Zimmerman, The Universe in a Mirror : The Saga of the Hubble Telescope and the Visionaries who Built It Jeff Kanipe, The Cosmic Connection : How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Pluto Files : The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet Dan Koeppel, Banana : The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World
Lisa Clayton	n/a	spontaneous
Lindy	n/a	spontaneous
Jody	The Year of Readers	spontaneous
Eva ( EVA )	A Striped Armchair	Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson, Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal Deborah Blum, Ghost Hunters : William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation Ross King, Brunelleschi’s Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture V.S. Ramachandran, and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind Oliver W. Sacks, Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, art by Robert Bateman, Tree : A Life Story Bill McKibben, Deep Economy : The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Atul Gawande, Complications : Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon
Brandi	The Reading Challenges Blog	spontaneous
Melanie ( MKI )	Cynical Optimism	Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel Philip Plait, Death from the Skies! : These are the Ways the World Will End-- Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Care ( CBC )	Care’s Online Book Club	Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief
Kristi H. ( KNH )	Books and Needlepoint	Kay Chornook and Wolf Guindon, Walking with Wolf : Reflections on a Life Spent Protecting the Costa Rican Wilderness
Pussreboots	Puss Reboots	Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know by Dr. Joe Schwarcz Hawaiian Insects and their Kin, by F. G. Howarth and W. P. Mull Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, by Simon Winchester Mars, the Red Planet, by Isaac Asimov Roadside Geology of Hawaii, by Richard W. Hazlett and Donald W. Hyndman The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense, by Michael Shermerer The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Joanna	It's all about me	The Story of God, by Robert Winston The Force, by Lynne McTaggart God and the New Physics, by Paul Davies Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments, by Alex Boese Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor, by Neil Shubin What the Bleep do we Know?, by William Arntz and Betsy Chasse The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space : 42 Questions (and Answers) about Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Jim Lebans
Debi ( DAS )	Reading Challenge Obsessed...	Mark Schultz, The Stuff of Life : A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA (Visit her blog for an extensive list of possible titles!)
Jessi	Casual Dread	Tentative list: Misquoting Jesus, by Bart D. Ehrman The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan The Edge of the Sea, by Rachel Carson
Rebecca	Rebecca Reads	Some possibilities: DNA, by James Watson Cosmos, by Carl Sagan Napoleon’s Buttons, by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer The Ancestor’s Tale, by Richard Dawkins God’s Equation, by Amir Azcel A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking.
Judy D.	Intergalactic Bookworm	spontaneous
raidergirl3 ( RG3 )	an adventure in reading	spontaneous
T. Robertson	n/a	The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Apirituality, by Dalai Lama Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, by William Bass What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture, by Edward Slingerland Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Rich ( RTS )	Dick-o's Deep Thoughts	Pat Shipman, Taking Wing : Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight Chris Beard, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey : Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans Donald C. Johanson and Kate Wong, Lucy’s Legacy : The Quest for Human Origins
EHL ( EHL )	n/a	Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith, The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown : The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America Jennifer Hooper McCarty and Tim Foecke, What Really Sank the Titanic : New Forensic Discoveries Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Renée Fleming, The Inner Voice : The Making of a Singer.
Adrienne ( AIJ )	Titles are Irrelevant	Steven H. Strogatz, Sync : The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
R. Williams	facebook challenger	spontaneous
S. Poduska	facebook challenger	spontaneous
C. Howard	facebook challenger	spontaneous
J.P. Howard	facebook challenger	spontaneous
J. Dorrance	facebook challenger	spontaneous
T. Wilson	facebook challenger	spontaneous
B. Kane	facebook challenger	spontaneous
D. Robertson	facebook challenger	spontaneous
Chile ( CC )	Chile Chews	Ben Sherwood, The Survivors Club : The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life A.D. Livingston and Helen Livingston, Edible Plants and Animals : Unusual Foods from Aardvark to Zamia Pat Murphy, Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
Jen R.	Living Life Simply	tentatively: Blue Frontier, by David Helvarg The Earth Moved, by Amy Stewart Bottomfeeder, by Taras Grescoe
Joyce	tallgrassworship	Watermania, by Eliazbeth Royte This is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel Levitin The End of Food, by Paul Roberts
Matheus	Second is the Rest	possibles: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman The Linguistics Wars, by Randy Allen Harris Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, by Daniel Dennett On Nature and Language, by Noam Chomsky Language and Mind, by Noam Chomsky The Empirical Stance, by Bas van Fraassen Pursuit of Truth, by W. V. Quine The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
psuklinkie	Light Up My Room	In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollen The Anatomist, by Bill Hayes Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser The Way We Eat, by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Debra	n/a	spontaneous
Rose	Making the Shift	spontaneous
Brittanie ( BT )	A Book Lover	[Henslin: This Is Your Brain On Joy \| Earl Henslin with Becky Johnson, This is Your Brain on Joy : A Revolutionary Program for Balancing Mood, Restoring Brain Health, and Nurturing Spiritual Growth]
Debbie ( DC )	Rites of Passage	George Johnson, Miss Leavitt’s Stars : The Untold Story of the Woman who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
Ruchi (aka Arduous)	Arduous Blog	Uncertainty on a Himalayan Scale, by Michael Thompson and others TBD
Killi M. ( KM )	Killimengri's Weblog	Graham Wellstead, The Ferret and Ferreting Guide
Nymeth	things mean a lot	(Visit her blog for an extensive list of possible titles!)
Rachel (Book Trout) ( RBT )	Book Trout	Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter Robert Twigger, The Extinction Club Bully for Brontosaurus, by Stephen Jay Gould Equations of Eternity: Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning, and the Mathematical Rules that Orchestrate the Cosmos, by David Darling
Cynthia Menard	Withywindle Books	spontaneous
Gavin ( GG )	Page247	Daniel L. Everett, Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures : Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species William Fiennes, The Snow Geese : A Story of Home Bill Streever, Cold : Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places. New York
Raquel H. ( RSPH )	n/a	Ian Stewart, Letters to a Young Mathematician Karl Sabbagh, The Riemann Hypothesis : The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Roy H.	n/a	spontaneous
Jennifer G.	Waiting on Sunday to drown	spontaneous
Abbie (AR)	Farmer's Daughter	spontaneous
Joanne M ( JLS )	Joanne Loves Science	Philip Plait, Death from the Skies! : These are the Ways the World Will End-- Hannah Holmes, The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself David Michaels, Doubt is their Product : How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens your Health Theodore Gray, Theo Gray’s Mad Science Experiments You Can Do at Home--But Probably Shouldn’t Barbara Oakley, Evil Genes : Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and my Sister Stole my Mother’s Boyfriend Trevor Paglen, Blank Spots on the Map : The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World Carl Zimmer, Microcosm : E. Coli and the New Science of Life Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Pluto Files : The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet James B. Nardi, Life in the Soil : A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners Philip Alcabes, Dread : How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu Simon Winchester, Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
M H Caro (MHC)	n/a	spontaneous
Heather J. ( HJ3 )	Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books	Simon Winchester, The Man Who Loved China : The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom Richard Guy, The Mysterious Receding Seas Alan Lightman, A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit Paul Hutchins, The Secret Doorway : Beyond Imagination
Jenn	Chasing the Mouse...	spontaneous
Danielle Meitiv	Brave Blue Worlds	spontaneous
Sheila M Ryan	Ryan Indexing	spontaneous
Ken Perrott ( KP )	Open Parachute	Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal, Poles Apart : The Great Climate Change Debate Victor J. Stenger, Quantum Gods : Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness Alan Chalmers, The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone : How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York. Critique of Intelligent Design : Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present

Richard ( RRT )	n/a	spontaneous
Isaac ( SJB )	n/a	Robin Wilson, Lewis Carroll in Numberland : His Fantastical, Mathematical, Logical Life: An Agony in Eight Fits
Jeff ( JNS )	Bearcastle Blog	Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300 – 1850 Michael S. Gazzaniga, Human : The Science Behind what Makes us Unique John Gribbin, The Birth of Time : How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk : How Randomness Rules our Lives Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air : A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Charles Seife, Sun in a Bottle : The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking Brian Fagan, The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement : When Quantum Physics was Reborn Mark Wolverton, A Life in Twilight : The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer Tom D. Crouch, Lighter than Air : An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships Christopher Potter, You Are Here : A Portable History of the Universe John Gribbin, Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality : Solving the Quantum Mysteries John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin, Stardust : Supernovae and Life—The Cosmic Connection Andrew Chaikin, A Passion for Mars : Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet Richard A. Muller, Physics for Future Presidents : The Science Behind the Headlines David Michaels, Doubt is Their Product : How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health Robert P. Crease, The Great Equations : Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

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+[[image:Sbc2009.jpg|right|thumb|The image is a portion of the fractal Mandelbrot set, created by  [http://www.flickr.com/people/-marlith-/ Kevin Wong] ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/-marlith-/2437198527/ source]); [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en Creative Commons License], used with permission. Please use this image in your own blog to publicize the 2009 Science-Book Challenge.]] <center><b>Read a book for science literacy!<br>The [[Science Book Challenge 2010 |2010 Challenge]] is now open;<br> please join us there.</b></center>
 The Science-Book Challenge is easy: read three science books in 2009, then tell others about the books you've read and help spread science literacy.
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 # Don't worry if you find that you've read a book someone else has also read; we welcome multiple notes on one title.
 # Get your book note to us and we'll post it with the other notes in our Book Note section. Use the [[Special:BooknoteForm | book-note form]] or the [[Special:CommentForm | comment form]] to get in touch with us.
-# Tell other people about the Science-Book Challenge: [http://ArsHermeneutica.org/besieged/Science-Book_Challenge_2009 http://ArsHermeneutica.org/besieged/Science-Book_Challenge_2009].
+# Tell other people about the Science-Book Challenge: [http://scienticity.net/wiki/Science_Book_Challenge http://scienticity.net/wiki/Science_Book_Challenge].
 Stuck for ideas about what books to read? [[Special:CommentForm | Write to us]] and we'll help you identify some books that will match your interests.
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Melanie K.
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Melwyk   ([[:Category:MK | MK ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://indextrious.blogspot.com/ The Indextrious Reader]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Nabhan: Where Our Food Comes From | Gary Paul Nabhan, ''Where Our Food Comes From : Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine'']]<br>[[Reeves: A Force of Nature | Richard Reeves, ''A Force of Nature : The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford'']]<br>[[Florey: Script and Scribble | Kitty Burns Florey, ''Script and Scribble : The Rise and Fall of Handwriting'']]<br>[[Wolf: Proust and the Squid | Maryanne Wolf, ''Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Jenny S.
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Lynda
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Lynda  ([[:Category:LBB | LBB ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://lyndasbookblog.blogspot.com/ Lynda's Book Blog]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | tentatively:<br>''Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? : And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions'', by Mick O'Hare<br>''A Short History of Nearly Everything'', by Bill Bryson<br>''How to Dunk a Doughnut : The Science Of Everyday Life'', by Len Fisher
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Walker: The Hot Topic | Gabrielle Walker and David King, ''The Hot Topic : How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On'']]<br>[[New Scientist: Does Anything Eat Wasps | New Scientist [magazine], ''Does Anything Eat Wasps? : And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions you Never Thought you Wanted to Ask'']]<br>[[New Scientist: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely | New Scientist [magazine], Mick O’Hare, editor, ''Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? : And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions about how the World Works'']]
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Violette Severin
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Violette Severin  ([[:Category:VS | VS ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://themysterybookshelf.blogspot.com/ The Mystery Bookshelf]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Zimmerman: The Universe in a Mirror | Robert Zimmerman, ''The Universe in a Mirror : The Saga of the Hubble Telescope and the Visionaries who Built It'']]<br>[[Kanipe: The Cosmic Connection | Jeff Kanipe, ''The Cosmic Connection : How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth'']]<br>[[Tyson: The Pluto Files (2) | Neil deGrasse Tyson, ''The Pluto Files : The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet'']]<br>[[Koeppel: Banana | Dan Koeppel, ''Banana : The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Lisa Clayton
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
 |-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Eva
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Eva   ([[:Category:EVA | EVA ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/science-book-challenge-09 A Striped Armchair]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | (Visit her blog for an extensive list of possible titles!)<br>[[Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons (2) | Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History'']]<br>[[Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist | Jonah Lehrer, ''Proust Was a Neuroscientist'']]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons (2) | Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History'']]<br>[[Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist | Jonah Lehrer, ''Proust Was a Neuroscientist'']]<br>[[Sacks: Oaxaca Journal | Oliver Sacks, ''Oaxaca Journal'']]<br>[[Blum: Ghost Hunters | Deborah Blum, ''Ghost Hunters : William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death'']]<br>[[Judson: Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation | Olivia Judson, ''Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation'']]<br>[[King: Brunelleschi’s Dome | Ross King, ''Brunelleschi’s Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture'']]<br>[[Ramachandran: Phantoms in the Brain | V.S. Ramachandran, and Sandra Blakeslee, ''Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind'']]<br>[[Sacks: Uncle Tungsten (2) | Oliver W. Sacks, ''Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood'']]<br>[[Suzuki: Tree | David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, art by Robert Bateman, ''Tree : A Life Story'']]<br>[[McKibben: Deep Economy | Bill McKibben, ''Deep Economy : The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future'']]<br>[[Gawande: Complications | Atul Gawande, ''Complications : Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Brandi
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Melanie (MKI)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Melanie  ([[:Category:MKI | MKI ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://tigermel.blogspot.com/ Cynical Optimism]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Kaku: Physics of the Impossible | Michio Kaku, ''Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel'']]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Kaku: Physics of the Impossible | Michio Kaku, ''Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel'']]<br>[[Plait: Death from fhe Skies | Philip Plait, ''Death from the Skies! : These are the Ways the World Will End--'']]<br>[[Shubin: Your Inner Fish | Neil Shubin, ''Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body'']]
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Care (CBC)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Care  ([[:Category:CBC | CBC ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://bkclubcare.wordpress.com/ Care’s Online Book Club]
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [[Orlean: The Orchid Thief (2) | Susan Orlean, ''The Orchid Thief'']]
 |-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Kristi H.
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Kristi H.  ([[:Category:KNH | KNH ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2008/12/science-book-challenge.html Books and Needlepoint]
 | valign="top" align="left"   |[[Chornook: Walking with Wolf | Kay Chornook and Wolf Guindon, ''Walking with Wolf : Reflections on a Life Spent Protecting the Costa Rican Wilderness'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | ''The Story of God'', by Robert Winston <br> ''The Force'', by Lynne McTaggart <br> ''God and the New Physics'', by Paul Davies <br> ''Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments'', by Alex Boese <br> ''Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor'', by Neil Shubin <br> ''What the Bleep do we Know?'', by William Arntz and Betsy Chasse <br>''The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space : 42 Questions (and Answers) about Life, the Universe, and Everything'', by Jim Lebans
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Debi
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Debi  ([[:Category:DAS | DAS ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://dastevenslists.blogspot.com/2008/12/science-book-challenge.html Reading Challenge Obsessed...]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | (Visit her blog for an extensive list of possible titles!)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Schultz: The Stuff of Life | Mark Schultz, ''The Stuff of Life : A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA'']]<br>(Visit her blog for an '''extensive''' list of possible titles!)
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Jessi
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | raidergirl3
+| valign="top" align="left"   | raidergirl3  ([[:Category:RG3 | RG3 ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/ an adventure in reading]
 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | ''The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Apirituality'', by Dalai Lama<br>''Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales'', by William Bass<br>''What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture'', by Edward Slingerland<br>''Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique'', by Michael S. Gazzaniga
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Rich
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Rich  ([[:Category:RTS | RTS ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://dickostevens.blogspot.com/2008/12/science-challenge-made-for-me.html Dick-o's Deep Thoughts]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Possibles:<br>''Bones of Contention'', by Paul Chambers<br>''The Red Queen'', by Matt Ridley<br>''Life of Insects'', by Vincent Wigglesworth<br>''The Pleasures of Entomology'', by Howard Evans<br>Any one of the wonderful books by Stephen Jay Gould, especially ''Wonderful Life''<br>''Biology of the Amphibia'', by Gladwyn Noble
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Shipman: Taking Wing | Pat Shipman, ''Taking Wing : Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight'']]<br>[[Beard: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey | Chris Beard, ''The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey : Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans'']]<br>[[Johanson: Lucy's Legacy | Donald C. Johanson and Kate Wong, ''Lucy’s Legacy : The Quest for Human Origins'']]
 |-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | EHL
+| valign="top" align="left"   | EHL   ([[:Category:EHL | EHL ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | n/a
-| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Glover: The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown | Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith, ''The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown : The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America'']]<br>[[McCarty: What Really Sank the Titanic | Jennifer Hooper McCarty and Tim Foecke, ''What Really Sank the Titanic : New Forensic Discoveries'']]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Glover: The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown | Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith, ''The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown : The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America'']]<br>[[McCarty: What Really Sank the Titanic | Jennifer Hooper McCarty and Tim Foecke, ''What Really Sank the Titanic : New Forensic Discoveries'']]<br>[[Levitt: Freakonomics (2) | Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, ''Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'']]<br>[[Fleming: The Inner Voice | Ren&eacute;e Fleming, ''The Inner Voice : The Making of a Singer.'']]
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Adrienne (AJ)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Adrienne  ([[:Category:AIJ | AIJ ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://titlesareirrelevant.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html Titles are Irrelevant]
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [[Strogatz: Sync | Steven H. Strogatz, ''Sync : The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order'']]
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Chile
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Chile  ([[:Category:CC | CC ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://chilechews.blogspot.com/ Chile Chews]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Sherwood: The Survivors Club | Ben Sherwood, ''The Survivors Club : The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life'']]<br>[[Livingston: Edible Plants and Animals | A.D. Livingston and Helen Livingston, ''Edible Plants and Animals : Unusual Foods from Aardvark to Zamia'']]<br>[[Murphy: Plan C | Pat Murphy, ''Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Jen R.
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Brittanie
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Brittanie ([[:Category:BT | BT ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://abookloverforever.blogspot.com/2009/01/science-book-challenge-2009.html A Book Lover]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | tentatively:<br>''A Walk in the Woods'', by Bill Bryson<br>''Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World'', by Jessica Snyder Sachs<br>''Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder'', by Richard Louv
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [Henslin: This Is Your Brain On Joy | Earl Henslin with Becky Johnson, ''This is Your Brain on Joy : A Revolutionary Program for Balancing Mood, Restoring Brain Health, and Nurturing Spiritual Growth'']
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Debbie
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Debbie ([[:Category:DC | DC ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://ritesofpassage.us/2009/01/09/science-book-challenge-2009/ Rites of Passage]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | maybe:<br>''Miss Leavitt's Stars'', by George Johnson<br>''The Ancestor's Tale'', by Richard Dawkins<br>''The Wisdom of Bones'', by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Johnson: Miss Leavitt's Stars (2)| George Johnson, ''Miss Leavitt’s Stars : The Untold Story of the Woman who Discovered How to Measure the Universe'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Ruchi (aka Arduous)
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | ''Uncertainty on a Himalayan Scale'', by Michael Thompson<br>and others TBD
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Killi M.
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Killi M.   ([[:Category:KM | KM ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://killimengri.wordpress.com/  Killimengri's Weblog]
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [[Wellstead: The Ferret and Ferreting Guide | Graham Wellstead, ''The Ferret and Ferreting Guide'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | (Visit her blog for an extensive list of possible titles!)
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Rachel (Book Trout)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Rachel (Book Trout)  ([[:Category:RBT | RBT ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://www.booktrout.blogspot.com/ Book Trout]
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [[Heinrich: Ravens in Winter | Bernd Heinrich, ''Ravens in Winter'']]<br>[[Twigger: The Extinction Club | Robert Twigger, ''The Extinction Club'']]<br>''Bully for Brontosaurus'', by Stephen Jay Gould<br>''Equations of Eternity: Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning, and the Mathematical Rules that Orchestrate the Cosmos'', by David Darling
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
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-| valign="top" align="left"   | Gavin (GG)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Gavin  ([[:Category:GG | GG ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://page247.wordpress.com/ Page247]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Everett: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes | Daniel L. Everett, ''Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle'']]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Everett: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes | Daniel L. Everett, ''Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle'']]<br>[[Carroll: Remarkable Creatures | Sean B. Carroll, ''Remarkable Creatures : Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species'']]<br>[[Fiennes: The Snow Geese | William Fiennes, ''The Snow Geese : A Story of Home'']]<br>[[Streever: Cold | Bill Streever, ''Cold : Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places. New York'']]
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Raquel H.
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Raquel H. ([[:Category:RSPH | RSPH ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | n/a
-| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Stewart: Letters to a Young Mathematician | Ian Stewart, ''Letters to a Young Mathematician'']]<br>[[Sabbagh: The Riemann Hypothesis | Karl Sabbagh, ''The Riemann Hypothesis : The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | Roy H.
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 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Joanne M (JLS)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Joanne M  ([[:Category:JLS | JLS ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://www.joannelovesscience.com/ Joanne Loves Science]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Plait: Death from fhe Skies (2) | Philip Plait, ''Death from the Skies! : These are the Ways the World Will End--'']]<br>[[Holmes: The Well-Dressed Ape | Hannah Holmes, ''The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself'']]<br>[[Michaels: Doubt is their Product | David Michaels, ''Doubt is their Product : How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens your Health'']]<br>[[Gray: Mad Science Experiments | Theodore Gray, ''Theo Gray’s Mad Science Experiments You Can Do at Home--But Probably Shouldn’t'']]<br>[[Oakley: Evil Genes | Barbara Oakley, ''Evil Genes : Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and my Sister Stole my Mother’s Boyfriend'']]<br>[[Paglen: Blank Spots on the Map | Trevor Paglen, ''Blank Spots on the Map : The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World'']]<br>[[Zimmer: Microcosm | Carl Zimmer, Microcosm : ''E. Coli and the New Science of Life'']]<br>[[Tyson: The Pluto Files | Neil deGrasse Tyson, ''The Pluto Files : The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet'']]<br>[[Nardi: Life in the Soil | James B. Nardi, ''Life in the Soil : A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners'']]<br>[[Alcabes: Dread | Philip Alcabes, ''Dread : How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu'']]<br>[[Winchester: Krakatoa | Simon Winchester, ''Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883'']]
 |-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
 | valign="top" align="left"   | M H Caro (MHC)
 | valign="top" align="left"   | n/a
 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+|-bgcolor="#ffffff"
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Heather J.  ([[:Category:HJ3 | HJ3 ]])
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [http://age30books.blogspot.com Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Winchester: The Man Who Loved China | Simon Winchester, The Man Who Loved China : ''The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom'']]<br>[[Guy: The Mysterious Receding Seas | Richard Guy, ''The Mysterious Receding Seas'']]<br>[[Lightman: A Sense of the Mysterious (2)| Alan Lightman, ''A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit'']]<br>[[Hutchins: The Secret Doorway | Paul Hutchins, ''The Secret Doorway : Beyond Imagination'']]
+|-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Jenn
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [http://4-res-challenges.blogspot.com/2009/08/science-book-challenge-2009.html Chasing the Mouse...]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+|-bgcolor="#ffffff"
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Danielle Meitiv
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [http://bravebluewords.com Brave Blue Worlds]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+|-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Sheila M Ryan
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [http://twitter.com/ryanindexing Ryan Indexing]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+|-bgcolor="#ffffff"
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Ken Perrott ([[:Category:KP | KP ]])
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [http://openparachute.wordpress.com Open Parachute]
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Morgan: Poles Apart | Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal, ''Poles Apart : The Great Climate Change Debate'']]<br>[[Stenger: Quantum Gods | Victor J. Stenger, ''Quantum Gods : Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness'']]<br>[[Chalmers: The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone | Alan Chalmers, ''The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone : How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms'']]<br>[[Foster: Critique of Intelligent Design | John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York. ''Critique of Intelligent Design : Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present'']]
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 | valign="top" align="left"   | &nbsp;
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Richard (RRT)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Richard  ([[:Category:RRT | RRT ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | n/a
 | valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
 |-bgcolor="#f9f9f9"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Isaac (SJB)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Isaac  ([[:Category:SJB | SJB ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | n/a
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [[Wilson: Lewis Carroll in Numberland | Robin Wilson, ''Lewis Carroll in Numberland : His Fantastical, Mathematical, Logical Life: An Agony in Eight Fits'']]
 |-bgcolor="#ffffff"
-| valign="top" align="left"   | Jeff (JNS)
+| valign="top" align="left"   | Jeff  ([[:Category:JNS | JNS ]])
 | valign="top" align="left"   | [http://bearcastle.com/blog Bearcastle Blog]
-| valign="top" align="left"   | spontaneous
+| valign="top" align="left"   | [[Fagan: The Little Ice Age | Brian Fagan, ''The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300 – 1850'']]<br>[[Gazzaniga: Human | Michael S. Gazzaniga, ''Human : The Science Behind what Makes us Unique'']]<br>[[Gribbin: The Birth of Time | John Gribbin, ''The Birth of Time : How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe'']]<br>[[Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk | Leonard Mlodinow, ''The Drunkard's Walk : How Randomness Rules our Lives'']]<br>[[Johnson: The Invention of Air | Steven Johnson, ''The Invention of Air : A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America'']]<br>[[Seife: Sun in a Bottle | Charles Seife, ''Sun in a Bottle : The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking'']]<br>[[Fagan: The Long Summer | Brian Fagan, ''The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization'']]<br>[[Gilder: The Age of Entanglement | Louisa Gilder, ''The Age of Entanglement : When Quantum Physics was Reborn'']]<br>[[Wolverton: A Life in Twilight | Mark Wolverton, ''A Life in Twilight : The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer'']]<br>[[Crouch: Lighter than Air | Tom D. Crouch, ''Lighter than Air : An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships'']]<br>[[Potter: You Are Here | Christopher Potter, ''You Are Here : A Portable History of the Universe'']]<br>[[Gribbin: Schroedinger's Kittens | John Gribbin, ''Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality : Solving the Quantum Mysteries'']]<br>[[Gribbin: Stardust | John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin, ''Stardust : Supernovae and Life—The Cosmic Connection'']]<br>[[Chaikin: A Passion for Mars | Andrew Chaikin, ''A Passion for Mars : Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet'']]<br>[[Muller: Physics for Future Presidents | Richard A. Muller, ''Physics for Future Presidents : The Science Behind the Headlines'']]<br>[[Michaels: Doubt is their Product (2) | David Michaels, ''Doubt is Their Product : How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health'']]<br>[[Crease: The Great Equations | Robert P. Crease, ''The Great Equations : Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg'']]

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