Essays &amp; Commentary

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

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Lewis Thomas

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The Character of Physical Law

Richard P. Feynman

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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

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Michael Shermer

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Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society

Bill Bryson

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Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences

Victoria E. McMillan

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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

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Essays & Commentary

Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman

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De vergangelijkheid

Midas Dekkers

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The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope

Spencer Nadler

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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Douglas Starr

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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011: The Best American Series

Mary Roach

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The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

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The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley

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The Evolution of Physics

Leopold Infeld

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Some Time With Feynman (Penguin Press Science)

Leonard Mlodinow

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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

Francis Fukuyama

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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Bill Streever

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A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society

James D. Watson

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Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Wendell Berry

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Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists

Ellen Daniell

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New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy

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Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

Bryan G. Norton

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A View from the Divide: Creative Nonfiction on Health and Science

Lee Gutkind

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Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

Heinz von Foerster

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Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

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Robert M. Sapolsky

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History & Philosophy

What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty

Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA

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The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies

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Sherry Seethaler

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When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales From the Dark Side of Discovery

Simon LeVay

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Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

Michael Shermer

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Essays in Science

Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants)

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Johannes Kepler

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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

Mark Ridley

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It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science

Graham Farmelo

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The Best American Science Writing 2006

Jesse Cohen

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Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry (Credo Series)

Gary Paul Nabhan

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The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy

Rudy Rucker

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Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries

Steven Weinberg

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Cosmic Adventure: Other Secrets Beyond the Night Sky

Bob Berman

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006

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Die Entstehung des Neuen

Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare (Modern Library Science)

Henri Poincaré

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Lake Views: This World and the Universe

Steven Weinberg

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The Einstein Reader

She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff

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Science

Charlie Jane Anders

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The Best American Science Writing 2003

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Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002

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The Best American Science Writing 2001

Timothy Ferris

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Entropy and the Magic Flute

Harold J. Morowitz

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The Science of Michael Crichton: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science behind the Fictional Worlds of Michael Crichton (Science of Pop Culture series)

Kevin R. Grazier

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Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Eric Chaisson

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Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity

Andrew Robinson

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THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience

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Richard L. Knight

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The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology

Harry Collins

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Many Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe

Freeman Dyson

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Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage

Deborah Cramer

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Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, 3rd Edition (Bradford Books)

Elliott Sober

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The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life

Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science

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Martin Kemp

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My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy

Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Collection

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority

Steven Shapin

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Science & Math

Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know: 99 Fascinating Questions About the Chemistry of Everyday Life

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

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Richard Dawkins

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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Richard Dawkins

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The Scientist as Rebel

Freeman Dyson

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Politik als Beruf, Wissenschaft als Beruf

Max Weber

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Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future

David Suzuki

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

David Quammen

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The Best of the Best American Science Writing

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Anthology for a New Millennium

R. Buckminster Fuller

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008

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Great Essays in Science

Martin Gardner

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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003

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Richard Dawkins

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The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life

How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization

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Derrick Jensen

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The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe

Chet Raymo

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Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence

Clifford A. Pickover

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Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge (American Museum of Natural History Books)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

Henry Petroski

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Science & Scientists

The Starry Room: Naked Eye Astronomy in the Intimate Universe

Fred Schaaf

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The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science

Jay Ingram

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Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science

John D. Barrow

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When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish and Other Speculations About This and That

Martin Gardner

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The Best American Science Writing 2010

Jesse Cohen

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Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics

Martin Gardner

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The Best American Science Writing 2000

James Gleick

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Biology under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human

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Ian Tattersall

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The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity

Wyn Wachhorst

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The Best American Science Writing 2002

Alan Lightman

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Our Improbable Universe: A Physicist Considers How We Got Here

Michael Mallary

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Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time (Sciencewriters)

Lynn Margulis

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The Fermi Solution

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life

Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

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The Best American Science Writing 2008

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The Origins of the Future: Ten Questions for the Next Ten Years

John Gribbin

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Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out

Emily Monosson

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The Best American Science Writing 2004

Dava Sobel

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Science & Technology

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

Steven Pinker

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Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005

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It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010

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Freeman Dyson

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009

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I'm Working on That : A Trek From Science Fiction to Science Fact

William Shatner

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Introduction to Cultural Ecology

E.N. Anderson

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What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better

Science, Sense & Nonsense

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