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A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, biography, history of science, ftppl, hb
Call number
500 21

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, world history, anthropology, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (1)
Call number
303.4 22

Chaos: Making a new science

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, math, popular-level, fractals, chaos, tpb
Call number
003.19

The Language Instinct

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, tpb
Call number
400 20

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to black holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, physics, popular-level, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
523.1

The Agile Gene: How nature turns on nurture

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, ftpml, tpb
Call number
155.7

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the nature of history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, paleontology, evolution, biology, burgess shale, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
560.9 19

The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, tpb
Call number
599.93/8 21

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
153 21

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics

by Roger Penrose
Paperback, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, not recommended, tpb
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Call number
006.3 20

Longitude: The true story of a long genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, history of technology, longitude, biography, tpb
Call number
526.6209 20

Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
575.0162 20

Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, human biology, tpb
Call number
599.93/5 21

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, biology, tpb
Call number
573.2 20

The Way Things Work

by David Macaulay
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
nonfiction, coffee table, reference, technology
Call number
600 19

Genius

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, biography, feynman, tpb
Call number
530.092 B 20

Mapping the Deep: the extraordinary story of ocean science

by Robert Kunzig
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, marine biology, oceanography, tpb
Call number
551.46

Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ecology, anthropology, human geography, tpb, ftpml
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (2)
Call number
304.28

Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body

by Neil Shubin
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biology, evolution, anatomy, paleontology, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
611

Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life

by Carl Zimmer
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, biology, microbiology, e. coli, bacteria, hb
Call number
579.342

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

by Richard Holmes
Paperback, 2010
Tags
history, history of science, biography, tpb
Call number
509.4109033

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-year-old computer--and the century-long search to discover its secrets

by Jo Marchant
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, archaeology, history, history of technology, antikythera mechanism, gears!, history of computing, tpb
Call number
681.1110938

Packing for Mars: The curious science of life in the void

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, space program, astronauts, space biology, tpb
Call number
571.0919

The Disappearing Spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements

by Sam Kean
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, chemistry, elements, tpb
Call number
546

The Information: A history, a theory, a flood

by James Gleick
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, information, information theory, popular-level, tpb
Call number
020.9

Air: The restless shaper of the world

by William Bryant Logan
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
atmosphere, air, ecology, hb
Call number
551.5

The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the hunt for the Higgs Boson leads us to the edge of a new world

by Sean M. Carroll
Paperback, 2013
Tags
physics, particle physics, higgs boson, tpb
Call number
539.721

Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2013
Tags
biology, anatomy, digestive system, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
612.3

Stuff Matters: Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our manmade world

by Mark Miodownik
Ebook, 2014
Tags
materials science, chemistry, engineering, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620.1/1

I Contain Multitudes: The microbes within us and a grander view of life

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biology, bacteria, symbiosis, microbiome, hb
Call number
579/.17

Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
hb, biology, animal intelligence, cephalopods, invertebrates
Call number
612.8

The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2018
Tags
history, history of engineering, history of technology, precision, gears!, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620/.009

Entangled Life : How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures

by Merlin Sheldrake
Paperback, 2020
Tags
biology, natural history, mushrooms, fungi, unread, tpb
Call number
579.5

An Immense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, biology, animals, senses, animal behavior, nature, hb
Call number
591.5
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