Genre search:Science & Nature

A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

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

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

The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, extinction, mass extinction, arc, pulitzer, pulitzer prize
Call number
576.84

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 Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

by Steve Brusatte
Paperback, 2023
Tags
unread, paleontology, biology, mammals, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
569

What if? 2: Additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
xkcd, humor, science, hb, unread
Series
What if? (2)
Call number
500

What if?: Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
xkcd, humor, science, hb
Series
What if? (1)
Call number
500

What an Owl Knows: The new science of the world's most enigmatic birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
birds, bird behavior, natural history, biology, owls, hb, unread
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
598.9/7

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, biography, medicine, hb, ftpml
Call number
616.02774092

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

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

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

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

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

The Blind Watchmaker

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
576.82

How To: Absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
xkcd, humor, hb
Call number
502

The Botany of Desire: A plant's-eye view of the world

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, botany, nature, artificial selection, apples, tulips, potatoes, ftpml, tpb
Call number
304.27

The Genius of Birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, animal intelligence, birds, bird behavior, tpb
Call number
598

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 Soul of an Octopus: A surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

by Sy Montgomery
Ebook, 2015
Tags
natural history, cephalopods, octopuses, invertebrates, animal intelligence, biology, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
594.56

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

by Sabrina Imbler
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
biology, marine biology, memoir, lgbtq, hb
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
591.77

Cosmos

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, astronomy, popular-level, hb
Call number
520

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

The book of eels: Our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

by Patrik Svensson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, translation, biology, eels, tpb
Call number
597.43

She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity

by Carl Zimmer
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, heredity, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
576.5

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

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark

by Carl Sagan
Paperback, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, science, rationality, tpb
Call number
001.9 20

The Origin of Species: Complete and fully illustrated

by Charles Darwin
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
hb, unread, nonfiction, biology, evolution
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
575.0162

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, feynman, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Call number
530.0924 B 19

Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal

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

The Violinist's Thumb: And other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code

by Sam Kean
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, hb
Call number
572.8

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

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 Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the birth of modern geology

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2001
Tags
tpb, nonfiction, history, geology, biography, history of science
Call number
550.92 S664Wi

How the Mind Works

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

The Glass Universe: How the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
women's history, history of astronomy, harvard observatory, annie jump cannon, henrietta levitt, cecilia payne, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
522/.19744409252

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

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 Beak of the Finch: A story of evolution in our time

by Jonathan Weiner
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, birds, galapagos, darwin's finches, pulitzer prize, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
598.8830438

The Canon: A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science

by Natalie Angier
Ebook, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, science, popular-level, history of science, ebook, coverguess mismatch
Collection
E-books
Call number
500

Wicked Plants: The weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities

by Amy Stewart
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, botany, plants, hb
Series
Wicked Things (1)
Call number
581.6/5

Chaos: Making a new science

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

The Drunken Botanist: The plants that create the world's great drinks

by Amy Stewart
Ebook, 2013
Tags
botany, drinks, alcohol, beer, wine, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
581.632

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the meanings of life

by Daniel C. Dennett
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, unread, evolution, philosophy, tpb
Call number
146.7

The Wild Trees: A story of passion and daring

by Richard Preston
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, trees, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
585.509794

Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, geology, north america, omnibus, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Series
Annals of the Former World (5-volume set)
Call number
557.3 21

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

Climbing Mount Improbable

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

The Sibley Guide to Birds

by David Allen Sibley
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, bird identification, field guide
Call number
598.097
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