Science-Book Challenge 2009
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| - | 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 [[Special:CommentForm | comment form]] to reach us. You might find it interesting to look at last | + | 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 [[Special:CommentForm | comment form]] to reach us. You might find it interesting to look at last yearhttp://scienticity.net/wiki/Carroll:_Remarkable_Creatures'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. | Here are the people we are aware of who have accepted the Science-Book Challenge 2009. | ||
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| valign="top" align="left" | Gavin ([[:Category:GG | GG ]]) | | valign="top" align="left" | Gavin ([[:Category:GG | GG ]]) | ||
| valign="top" align="left" | [http://page247.wordpress.com/ Page247] | | 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'']] |
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| valign="top" align="left" | Raquel H. | | valign="top" align="left" | Raquel H. | ||
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| valign="top" align="left" | Joanne M ([[:Category:JLS | 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" | [http://www.joannelovesscience.com/ Joanne Loves Science] | ||
| - | | 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'']] | + | | 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'']] |
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| valign="top" align="left" | M H Caro (MHC) | | valign="top" align="left" | M H Caro (MHC) | ||
Revision as of 02:23, 13 July 2009
Join the challenge any time in 2009.
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://ArsHermeneutica.org/besieged/Science-Book_Challenge_2009.
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 yearhttp://scienticity.net/wiki/Carroll:_Remarkable_Creatures'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.
