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- Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox …oire naturelle</i>, equally admired for both style and content, became the first great encyclopedia of modern approaches to the study of nature. [ ) <i>sic…6 KB (978 words) - 00:16, 15 April 2009
- Ball: Critical Mass …all about the real world, then we learn some revealing things about firms. First, they are not maximizers. Firms as a whole maximize neither profit nor ove… The notion that putting profits first does not make a firm successful should not come as a surprise to those in …9 KB (1368 words) - 23:48, 14 April 2009
- Baker: Double Fold The newspapers were first, but as the filmable remainder of their own bound backfiles dwindled, libr… …tly less than the expensive process of sawing apart and photographing each page of the subject volume. Another nail in that coffin: several libraries that…14 KB (2158 words) - 23:47, 14 April 2009
- Abbott: What A Way To Go …tion and other unsavory goings-on as might have happened at the Tower. The page of "also by" inside the book lists several other titles by the author alon…4 KB (645 words) - 23:36, 14 April 2009
- Roach: Spook …umn," and the tantalizing "Leaping, its consequences." There's even a full-page, near-infomercial-quality plug for something called the Flesh-Brush. (p. 8… I have one complaint about a passing scientific misstatement. On page 200 she refers to ''E-L-F'' and explains that it stands for Extremely Low …4 KB (705 words) - 01:21, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2008 …leave a comment at the [http://bearcastle.com/blog/?p=1054 Bearcastle Blog page] where we originally announced the Challenge. Use your own blog to spread … | valign="top" align="left" | proposes 3 books in 3 subjects!<br>''first subject is "cosmology & theoretical physics":''<br>Stephen Hawking, "The U…14 KB (2044 words) - 04:52, 9 January 2009
- Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful …" But contrary to the expectations of ''any'' biologist, most of the genes first identified as governing major aspects of fruit fly body organization were … The first shots in the Evo Devo revolution revealed that despite their great differe…7 KB (1172 words) - 23:59, 14 April 2009
- Dennett: Freedom Evolves …right in and say what he's about. Here is the first paragraph of the first page of the text of the book:4 KB (740 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Robinson: The Story of Measurement * On page 88 he shows a standard periodic table of the elements with, as usual, a di… * On page 89 there is a beautiful microphotograph of a salt crystal, but it is shown…6 KB (993 words) - 01:23, 15 April 2009
- Hayes: The Anatomist …ssic references such as Webster's Dictionary and Bulfinch's ''Mythology''. First printed in 1858, this year it marks 150 years as a viable medical textbook… …k about a book about anatomy." He cites two childhood favorite activities. First, his two best friends had doctor fathers who kept their medical books on t…3 KB (419 words) - 23:44, 14 April 2009
- Tyson: Death by Black Hole …o of these essays, which cover fascinating topics, from black holes to the first few seconds of the universe to light to stardust to more. This is the kind… …a lecture, or a conversation, don’t always translate well to the written page (I’ve noticed a tendency among popular science writers to include more t…8 KB (1293 words) - 01:38, 15 April 2009
- Marcus: Kluge …hich developed/evolved over time into what he have today. As he writes on page 2:1 KB (228 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
- Angier: The Canon (2) …ting down how much I have left. She started out fine: her introduction and first three chapters (covering scientific thinking, statistics, and calibration)…6 KB (1100 words) - 23:45, 14 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen (2) …volution of Human Nature.'' New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994 (first American edition). 405 pages. …down to parasites, and here’s where we meet the Red Queen theory for the first time. In Alice and Wonderland, the Red Queen is a very fast runner who nev…15 KB (2521 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Crumpacker: Perfect Figures … sport with numbers, entertaining facts, and diverting quotations on every page that use that chapter's number. Why not! …ur studies, the quadrivium, or four paths—a crossroads of knowledge. The first study of the quadrivium was arithmetic; the second was the study of number…6 KB (1098 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2009
- Chornook: Walking with Wolf At first, this book was hard to follow--it has so many people and places, many with… …nd how together they started building their community and businesses. From page 49:4 KB (625 words) - 00:02, 15 April 2009
- Wilson: Lewis Carroll in Numberland …as Charles Dodgson, mathematician. Some of us know that he was one of the first photographers in England, and one of the finest. Few of us are aware of h… … no slouch in the story-telling side of his endeavor. From the very first page of the introduction, I was hooked. Wilson’s prose is clear and enjoyable…2 KB (320 words) - 01:45, 15 April 2009
- Orlean: The Orchid Thief (2) Passage from page 252:4 KB (726 words) - 01:01, 15 April 2009
- Fagan: The Little Ice Age …rld has experienced global warming on a massive scale—a rapid warming at first, then an equally dramatic, thousand-year cold snap some 12,000 years ago, … …s in Washington State in 1980 and exceeded Krakatau in 1883. Krakatau, the first major eruption to be studied at all systematically, is known to have reduc…10 KB (1567 words) - 00:11, 15 April 2009
- Science Book Challenge Every book-note contributor, challengers included, have an individual page ([[:Category: Book-Note Contributors | book-note contributors]]) that keep…6 KB (882 words) - 22:26, 25 February 2013
