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- Stenger: Quantum Gods …the scientific method (as well as many other important disciplines such as history and philosophy) is so inadequate that many people are easy prey to the cha…9 KB (1438 words) - 16:49, 28 September 2009
- Chalmers: The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone …ntist’s quantum-mechanical atom." This serves to provide a comprehensive history of the relationship between philosophy and science. === Epistemological history of atomism ===7 KB (1077 words) - 03:18, 25 September 2009
- Foster: Critique of Intelligent Design === Long history of naturalism ===10 KB (1553 words) - 01:25, 25 September 2009
- McKibben: Deep Economy …synonym for progress. We need to realise that "for the first time in human history, 'more' is no longer synonymous with 'better'".4 KB (623 words) - 16:18, 30 September 2009
- Streever: Cold …pact on human habitation and plant and animal adaptations. He includes the history of the science of cold, the search for absolute zero, and human exploratio… This is the kind of natural history-science book I love, the kind I can open up at any page and find something…2 KB (270 words) - 22:33, 25 November 2009
- Science Book Challenge 2010 …cience reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history. … Ashley Merryman<br>''Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body'', by Neil Shubin<br>''The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest…19 KB (2780 words) - 01:41, 4 February 2011
- Wolf: Proust and the Squid …in three sections: the first, a look at how reading and writing evolved in history; the second, a look at how the brain deciphers written language and shapes… …rst section, on the development of writing and alphabetic systems in human history, ties in to a couple of other books on my shelves (and doesn't reading one…3 KB (522 words) - 03:15, 22 January 2010
- Florey: Script and Scribble …d to certain pages to reread them. Florey's fervour about the process and history of handwriting is catching, and she talked further about it and this book … …our increasingly electronic society in this fascinating exploration of the history of handwriting. Weaving together the evolution of writing implements and s…5 KB (738 words) - 03:21, 22 January 2010
- Zimmerman: The Universe in a Mirror This book is an honest history of how the Hubble was built, giving credit to all of the nameless scientis… ''The Universe in a Mirror'' is an important contribution to the history of solar exploration. It is essential reading for anyone interested in ast…1 KB (234 words) - 03:30, 29 January 2010
- Tyson: The Pluto Files (2) … discovery. Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.3 KB (471 words) - 03:56, 29 January 2010
- Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie …ny Black" plays an important role. So here Flavia's dashes through a quick history lesson in British stamps, combined with some mnemonic suggestions from—w…4 KB (632 words) - 23:16, 16 February 2010
- Schewe: The Grid But how that situation came about is a history of science, engineering, and society. There was no grid at the beginning o… …e wares. Then came the ploy that earned Commonwealth Edison a place in the history of the early golden days of mass advertising. It worked like this. A cart …8 KB (1380 words) - 05:28, 19 February 2010
- Andrews: In Cold Pursuit …cott's expedition to the South Pole in 1902. Valena feel very close to the history and the adventure that had taken place there only a century before her vis…5 KB (821 words) - 04:57, 22 February 2010
- Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk (2) He reviews the history of probability, which I hadn't ever really thought about. The idea of figu… …streak, or admire the "hot hands" of a sports player, or trust in the good history of a broker? Watching the Olympics, I heard an announcer mention that a sk…3 KB (451 words) - 04:24, 26 February 2010
- Weisman: The World Without Us … York City subway system fills with water and must be pumped back out, the history of now-extinct large mammals in the Americas.3 KB (436 words) - 16:09, 20 March 2010
- Anderson: The Collectors of Lost Souls … that includes cultural anthropology, virology, epidemiology, and colonial history and leads to the science of medical anthropology and to questions of medic…2 KB (323 words) - 21:23, 1 June 2010
- Streever: Cold (2) …ca, the men who failed and succeed reaching the North and South Poles, the history of refrigeration, the structure of synthetic fabrics, and the biology of A… …ose explorers, or how people from various cultures handle the cold, or the history of weather prediction.2 KB (256 words) - 02:24, 2 June 2010
- Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks …s and she said, "Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was diff…19 KB (3180 words) - 03:36, 2 June 2010
- Breining: Super Volcano …c super eruptions, how it compares with famous deadly eruptions throughout history--and, finally, what will happen in the next big blast."4 KB (646 words) - 02:41, 12 July 2010
- Scarth: Vesuvius …t of the science is in the first 3 chapters. The rest of the book is pure history.2 KB (371 words) - 02:54, 12 July 2010
