Science+reading+list

This list of books, not all that I have read!, have been recommended to students who have an interest in science. It has also been used to populate school libraries.

=The list=


 * **Adams, Douglas** and **Cawardine, Mark** //Last chance to see.//
 * **Allen, Stewart Lee** //The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History//
 * **Allen, Stewart Lee** //In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food//
 * **Atkins, Peter W.** //The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements (Science Masters Series)//
 * **Atkins, Peter** //Four Laws That Drive The Universe//
 * **Ball, Philip** //Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry//
 * **Berners-Lee, Mike** //How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything// [|Amazon]
 * **Bertsch McGrayne, Sharon** //Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World//
 * **Blum, Deborah** //The Poisoner’s Handbook//
 * **Bryson, Bill** //A Short History of Nearly Everything//
 * **Buckingham, John** //Chasing the Molecule//
 * **Carson, Rachel** //Silent Spring//
 * **Cobb, Cathy** and **Fetterolf, Monty L.** //The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things//
 * **Cooper, James Fennimore**, //The Pioneers.//
 * **Cooper, James Fennimore**, //The Prairie.//
 * **Cox, Brian** //The Wonders of Life//
 * **Cox, Brian** //The Wonders of the Universe//
 * **Cox, Brian** and **Forshaw, Jeff** //The Quantum Universe (Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)//
 * **Cox, Brian** and **Forshaw, Jeff** //Why Does E=mc2//
 * **Crick, Francis** //What Mad Pursuit//
 * **Darwin, Charles** //The Descent of Man//
 * **Darwin, Charles** //The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals//
 * **Darwin, Charles** //The Origin of Species//
 * **Darwin, Charles** //Voyage of the Beagle//
 * **Dawkins, Richard** //The Greatest Show on Earth//
 * **Dawkins, Richard** //The Selfish Gene//
 * **deGrasse Tyson, Neil** //Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier//
 * **Diamond, Jared** //Guns, Germs and Steel//
 * **Dyson, George** //Turing’s Cathedral//
 * **Eisner, Thomas, Eisner, Maria** and **Siegler, Melody** //Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures//
 * **Elwin Harris, Gemma** //Big Questions from Little People//
 * **Emsley, John** //Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life//
 * **Emsley, John** //Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z of the Elements//
 * **Emsley, Jon** //The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire and Phosphorous//
 * **Feynman, Richard** //Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman//
 * **Firestein, Stuart** //Ignorance: How It Drives Science//
 * **Forbes, Peter** //The Gecko's Foot: Bio-Inspiration — Engineering New Materials and Devices from Nature//
 * **Fry, Stephen** and **Cawardine, Mark**, //Last chance to see.//
 * **Garfield, Simon** //Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World//
 * **Glynn, Jenifer** //My Sister Rosalind//
 * **Goldacre, Ben** //Bad Science//
 * **Gonick, Larry** and **Criddle, Craig** //The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry//
 * **Gore, Al** //Our Choice//
 * **Gould, Stephen Jay** //The Panda’s Thumb//
 * **Gould, Stephen Jay** //Wonderful Life//
 * **Greene, Brian** //The Hidden Reality//
 * **Harold, F. M.** //The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life//
 * **Hawking, Stephen** //A Brief History of Time//
 * **Hazen, Robert M.** //Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin//
 * **Hickam, Homer** //Rocket Boys// made into the movie [|October Sky] and also released as a book under that name.
 * **Hickman, Leo** //A good life:The guide to ethical living.//
 * **Hoffman, Roald** //The Same and Not the Same//
 * **Hopwood, David A.** //Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers//
 * **Hornaday, William** //Our vanishing wildlife.// I can't find a copy of this, but here is [|the ebook]
 * **Kean, Sam** //The Disappearing Spoon//
 * **Kean, Sam** //The Violinist’s Thumb//
 * **Krauss, Lawrence** //A Universe from Nothing//
 * **Krauss, Lawrence** //The physics of Star Trek//
 * **Kranz, Gene** //Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond//
 * **Kurlansky, Mark** //Salt: A World History//
 * **Kurlansky, Mark** //Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world.//
 * **Leopold, Aldo**, //A Sand County Almanac.//
 * **Levi, Primo** //The Periodic Table//
 * **Lovelock, James** //Gaia - A new look at life on Earth.//
 * **Lovelock, James** //The revenge of Gaia.//
 * **Maddox, Brenda** //Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA//
 * **Malthus, Thomas**, 1798, //An essay on the principle of population.// [|ebook] from project guttenburg.
 * **Marsh, George Perkins**, 1864, //Man and Nature.//
 * **McGee, Harold** //On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen//
 * **Monbiot, George** //Heat:How to stop the planet burning.//
 * **Mukherjee, Siddhartha** //The Emperor of All Maladies//
 * **Plait, Phil** //Death From the Skies//
 * **Plait, Phil** //Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"//
 * **Quammen, David** //Spillover//
 * **Reeves, Richard** //A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries)//
 * **Rhodes, Richard** //The Making of the Atomic Bomb//
 * **Roberts, Royston M.** //Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science//
 * **Sacks, Oliver** //Uncle Tungsten//
 * **Sagan, Carl** //Cosmos//
 * **Salzberg, Hugh W** //From Caveman to Chemist//
 * **Singh, Simon** //Fermat's Last Theorem: The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years//
 * **Singh, Simon** //The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography//
 * **Singh, Simon** //The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets//
 * **Smartt Bell, Madison** //Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)//
 * **Sobel, Dava** //A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos//
 * **Sobel, Dava** //Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love//
 * **Sobel, Dava** //Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time//
 * **Sobel, Dava** //The Planets//
 * **Spielman, Andrew** and **D'Antonio, Michael**, //Mosquito:The story of Man's deadliest foe.//
 * **Stewart, Ian** //In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World//
 * **Stott, Rebecca** //Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution//
 * **Timbrell, John** //The Poison Paradox: Chemicals as Friends and Foes//
 * **von Baeyer, Hans Christian** //Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat//
 * **Watson, James** //The Double Helix//
 * **Yorifuji, Bunpei** //Wonderful Life With the Elements//
 * **Yudkin, John** //Pure, White and Deadly//
 * **Zewail, Ahmed** //Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize//