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- Angier: The Canon (2) …one is a potential Rosetta stone, a key to a milestone moment in Earth’s history, and to accompany a geologist through a park is to leave no stone unturned…6 KB (1100 words) - 23:45, 14 April 2009
- Koff: The Bone Woman …ought it would have more of a science feel to it, and also have a bunch of history about the two genocides.5 KB (866 words) - 00:38, 15 April 2009
- Orlean: The Orchid Thief …rs, science-y chapters, and people-focused chapters. My favorites were the history and science parts: I learned lots of interesting things about Florida, abo… …' and ''City of Falling Angels''; I’m much more interested in places and history than random people who seem a few cards short of a deck.7 KB (1206 words) - 00:59, 15 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen (2) …rtually all novels and plays are about the same subject, when disguised as history or adventure. If you want to understand human motives, read Proust or Trol…15 KB (2521 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Aczel: The Mystery of the Aleph So, the topic of the book is "infinity" and its history as an idea, which is why there is a chapter on the Kabbalah and it made se… I found it interesting to read, with interesting history and connections between ideas. I know of no other book that treats the sub…5 KB (746 words) - 23:38, 14 April 2009
- Livio: The Golden Ratio The history of such claims is interesting anthropology and the author adopts an admira… …at a canon for ideal beauty exists and can be turned to practical account. History has shown, however, that the artists who have produced works of lasting va…5 KB (767 words) - 00:48, 15 April 2009
- Alley: The Two-Mile Time Machine …at sheds a great deal of light on what we know about climate change in the history of the Earth. I expect all readers will not agree with me but I thought Al… The history of this climatic craziness is written in cave formation, ocean and lake se…8 KB (1366 words) - 02:55, 23 May 2013
- Rosenblum: Chocolate …history, not a scientific work, but it reveals and demystifies much of the history, economics, sociology, and technology that get involved between the time t… Besides, I thought again, would a mere social history, with no scientific relevance, mention phenylethylamines (p. 36)? Not like…5 KB (865 words) - 01:25, 15 April 2009
- Sobel: The Planets …pter, and each chapter has a different focus. The geological and discovery history is here for each planet, but it is hidden in the story of their chapter. M…2 KB (321 words) - 01:31, 15 April 2009
- Smolin: The Trouble with Physics …e solved. A bit of history and background. The second section was a "Brief History of String Theory". This got a lot more confusing and I did some skimming, …3 KB (545 words) - 01:31, 15 April 2009
- Lebans: The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space …nvolves 'spaghettifying.' I first heard that phrase when watching 'A Brief History of Time,' the documentary based on Stephen Hawking's book of the same name…2 KB (355 words) - 00:41, 15 April 2009
- Rhodes: Arsenals of Folly …ush years as well as the years of the Cold War, Barnet adds, "It is one of history's great ironies that at the very moment when the United States had a monop…9 KB (1419 words) - 01:17, 15 April 2009
- Rigden: Hydrogen I thought that this recounting of scientific episodes in the history of the hydrogen atom was exciting and very engaging. Some of that may be b…5 KB (807 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Roston: The Carbon Age …ood throughout. In this excerpt he includes interesting facts, interesting history, and interesting observations about the way science operates. …not be, and can never have been, nuclear weaponry. Certainly a world and a history absent these weapons are desirable, but they are counterfactual. [p. 237, …10 KB (1538 words) - 04:39, 16 December 2009
- Kurlansky: The Big Oyster Mark Kurlansky, ''The Big Oyster : History on the Half Shell''. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006. xx + 307 pages, wi… …irky idea, and what could be more quirky, I thought, than a book about the history of oysters ''and'' New York City? Could even Mark Kurlansky, celebrated au…5 KB (907 words) - 00:39, 15 April 2009
- Segre: Faust in Copenhagen …, by the excellent writing and felicitous choice of detail which made this history really live. This really isn't a scientific read as much as a history of a moment in science. What I like about books like these is to have the …5 KB (887 words) - 01:27, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2009 … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History'']]<br>[[Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist | Jonah Lehrer, ''Proust Was … …ish | Neil Shubin, ''Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body'']]30 KB (4321 words) - 03:04, 12 July 2010
- Christie: The Curse of Akkad Peter Christie, ''The Curse of Akkad: Climate Upheavals that Rocked Human History''. Annick Press, 2008. 144 pages.1 KB (232 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2009
- Crumpacker: Perfect Figures …es more on the sound of the numbers than anything. And so our sense of the history of counting and the lore of numbers, as promised by the subtitle, develops… For those of us who like to learn some history through etymology and the connections of words to ideas, there's plenty to…6 KB (1098 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2009
- Bodanis: E=mc2 …and each unit of the equation has a section of its own. He talks about the history of the concept represented, whether energy, mass, the speed of light, or e…2 KB (370 words) - 23:52, 14 April 2009
