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- Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History.'' New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003. 375 pages with selected bibl… …t with a condescending attitude about this book. "How 17 molecules changed history" sounded histrionic to me, so I was predisposed to find the text hyperboli…8 KB (1283 words) - 00:40, 15 April 2009
- Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee …red. Diamond recounts the beginning of the end of that long phase of human history at the start of the chapter "The Last First Contacts": …istory made a discovery that hastened toward its end a long phase of human history. That was the date on which the advance patrol of the Third Archbold Exped…10 KB (1644 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2009
- Hecht: Doubt, a History Jennifer Michael Hecht, ''Doubt, A History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesu… …"doubt": what it is, how it manifests, its history as an idea, doubters in history, the influence of doubt on religion, doubt in culture, doubt as an idea—…6 KB (1003 words) - 00:21, 15 April 2009
- Vogel: Cat's Paws and Catapults …the distinction we biologists make between natural selection and natural history. The more basic problem is that an analogy doesn't explain. One judges an …11 KB (1794 words) - 01:40, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Botany of Desire There's plenty of plant science but also history (American settlement, witchcraft, Irish potato famine), biochemistry (brai…1 KB (208 words) - 01:05, 15 April 2009
- Dennett: Freedom Evolves …xtraordinary composition job could be accomplished, we need to look at the history of the design processes that did all the work, the evolution of human cons…4 KB (740 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Lienhard: Inventing Modern Whether this is history of technology via memoir, or memoir via history of technology is difficult to say and it doesn't really matter. Lienhard i…8 KB (1244 words) - 00:47, 15 April 2009
- Huler: Defining The Wind … example below is entirely parenthetical, fascinating science and cultural history, outside the main course of the narrative but still close enough to merit …8 KB (1407 words) - 00:25, 15 April 2009
- Tudge: The Time Before History Colin Tudge, ''The Time Before History : 5 Million Years of Human Impact.'' New York : Scribner, 1996. 366 pages,… …can be said about human history before there was history, at least written history.4 KB (697 words) - 01:36, 15 April 2009
- Watson: Ideas Peter Watson, ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud''. New York : HarperCollinsPu… …ize is not really surprising for a book that promises to survey the entire history of ideas from prehistory to the beginning of the twentieth century (but ''…17 KB (2936 words) - 01:41, 15 April 2009
- Tyson: Death by Black Hole …Grasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who writes a monthly column in ''Natural History'' about the universe. ''Death by Black Hole'' collects forty-two of these … "The history of human discovery is characterized by the boundless desire to extend the …8 KB (1293 words) - 01:38, 15 April 2009
- Rhazes and Avicenna …amic doctors from this time must rank among the greatest physicians in all history. Al-Razi, known in the West by his Latin name, Rhazes, was born in 865 in … #{{note|pw01}}Peter Watson, [[Watson: Ideas | ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud'']], New York : HarperCollins…3 KB (467 words) - 01:02, 10 May 2008
- The Latin Transmitters …. Besides identifying titles that should be read, Cassiodorus outlined the history of each of the liberal arts, even including authors whose views were by th… #{{note|pw01}}Peter Watson, [[Watson: Ideas | ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud'']], New York : HarperCollins…7 KB (1249 words) - 01:10, 10 May 2008
- Larson: Isaac's Storm …ik Larson, ''Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History''. New York : Crown Publishers, 1999. 323 pages, with notes, sources, and … …ne thing to write Great Man history, quite another to explore the lives of history's little men. [p. 275]9 KB (1514 words) - 00:39, 15 April 2009
- Winchester: The Map That Changed The World For the first time the earth had a provable history, a written record that paid no heed or obeisance to religious teaching and… One wonders, at the outset, how so much scientific history could have been bound up in the fortunes of this one individual, William S…7 KB (1125 words) - 01:47, 15 April 2009
- Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable From later in the book, here's a nice bit of history about notions of design and how difficult they can be to set aside. …l's answer was not too different from the one that most adults, throughout history, would have given. It has long been widely believed that brute creation is…8 KB (1397 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2009
- Bird: American Prometheus … science, in America, and in the world. He is at the center of a vortex in history with world-altering events swirling around him. To learn about Oppenheimer…9 KB (1556 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2009
- Boslaugh: When Computers Went to Sea This is a book about the history of the US Navy's secret Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) program, possibl…2 KB (311 words) - 23:53, 14 April 2009
- Schwartz: In Pursuit of the Gene This book is a history of the '''idea''' of the gene. That characteristics could be inherited has… … dramatic story and a fascinating case study in the history of ideas, this history of one profound idea: the "gene".9 KB (1452 words) - 01:26, 15 April 2009
- Marcus: Kluge # Remnants of History1 KB (228 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
- 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
- Walker: Snowball Earth The "Snowball Earth" theory suggests that at some point in the earth’s history, its surface was completely frozen. I’m not going to go into all of the …7 KB (1305 words) - 01:40, 15 April 2009
- Walker: The Wisdom of the Bones …s an erudite, compelling account of the scientific attempt to discover our history.2 KB (289 words) - 01:41, 15 April 2009
- Chornook: Walking with Wolf ''Walking with Wolf'' is a personal memoir, but it is also the history of a place and a movement as well as a celebration of lives lived amongst …4 KB (625 words) - 00:02, 15 April 2009
- Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons (2) … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History.'' New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003. 375 pages with selected bibl… This book sounded really neat--the subtitle is "How 17 Molecules Changed History"--and I’ve been meaning to read a pop chemistry book for awhile now. I w…9 KB (1398 words) - 00:40, 15 April 2009
- Orlean: The Orchid Thief (2) …iting style is engaging; she makes the subject very interesting. Lots of history on orchid hunting and the strange characters that found new species and th…4 KB (726 words) - 01:01, 15 April 2009
- Twigger: The Extinction Club …hilosophical musings on big questions like the meaning of extinction, part history (the carving up of the Chinese empire by Western powers is sad and fascina… …ed by the book, I can't say that I am more informed about Chinese-European history or the saga of the Milu after reading this book. Or was I?2 KB (356 words) - 00:23, 15 April 2009
- Fagan: The Little Ice Age Brian Fagan, ''The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300 – 1850''. New York : Basic Books, 2000. xxi + 246 pages; illustrate… ''The Little ice Age is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries and some of the ways in w…10 KB (1567 words) - 00:11, 15 April 2009
- Winchester: The Man Who Loved China …is Chinese mistress and developed into the most expansive study of Chinese history ever undertaken. He set out to prove that the Chinese really were the firs… …ldhood. The center section is focused on China: his travels there, ancient history, World War II and the surrounding years, the rise of Communism, etc. The f…3 KB (502 words) - 00:20, 15 April 2009
- Holmes: The Well-Dressed Ape Hannah Holmes, ''The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself''. Brilliance Audio, 2009. Unabridged audio book read by Joyce B…421 B (50 words) - 00:24, 15 April 2009
- Gribbin: The Birth of Time …urns out to be a fascinating story that takes in a big chunk of scientific history, the development of quite a few explosive ideas, and not a few colorful ch…7 KB (1222 words) - 00:17, 15 April 2009
