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* James Burke, ''Connections'' (Little, Brown, Boston, 1978). | * James Burke, ''Connections'' (Little, Brown, Boston, 1978). | ||
* Martin Gardner, ''Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science'' (Dover Publications, New York, 1957). | * Martin Gardner, ''Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science'' (Dover Publications, New York, 1957). | ||
| + | * Chris Mooney, ''The Republican War on Science'' (Basic Books, New York, 2005). | ||
* Robert L. Park, ''Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud'' (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000). | * Robert L. Park, ''Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud'' (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000). | ||
* James Randi, ''An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural'' (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995). | * James Randi, ''An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural'' (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995). | ||
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Numeracy
- John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (Hill and Wang, New York, 1988).
- John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Anchor Books, New York, 1996).
- Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Graphics Press, 2nd edition, 2001).
Science
- Peter Atkins, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003).
- Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004).
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb (W.W Norton and Company, New York, 1982).
- Brian L. Silver, The Ascent of Science (Oxford University Press, New York, 1998).
Scientific Biography
- Richard Phillips Feynman, Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Adventures of a Curious Character, as told to Ralph Leighton; edited by Edward Hutchings (W.W. Norton, New York, 1985).
- James Gleick, Isaac Newton (Pantheon Books, New York, 2003).
- Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Vintage Books, New York, 2002).
History of Science
- Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986)
Science and Society
- Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1973).
- James Burke, Connections (Little, Brown, Boston, 1978).
- Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Dover Publications, New York, 1957).
- Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science (Basic Books, New York, 2005).
- Robert L. Park, Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).
- James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995).
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Random House, New York, 1996).
Philosophy of Science
- Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge, New York, 1963).
- Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1959).
