Genre search:Science & Nature

A Sand County Almanac: With essays on conservation

by Aldo Leopold
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, nature, coffee table, hb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
508.73 21

Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
510.1 21

The Language Instinct

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

Seeing Further: The story of science & the Royal Society

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2011
Tags
essays, history, history of science, royal society, tpb
Call number
506.041

Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the human future in space

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
jane's, space, nonfiction, hb, unread
Collection
Jane's
Call number
919.904

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in natural history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, biology, essays, tpb, natural history
Series
Reflections in Natural History (7)
Call number
575 20

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, food, sustainability, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
394.12

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, music, neurology, tpb
Call number
781.11 22

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution

by Sean B. Carroll
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
evolution, biology, genetics, dna, hb
Call number
572.86

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom

by Sean B. Carroll
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
biology, evolution, genetics, evo devo, hb
Call number
571.85

Full house: The spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, statistics, baseball, evolution, tpb
Call number
576.8 21

Napoleon's Buttons: 17 molecules that changed history

by Penny Le Couteur
Paperback, 2004
Tags
chemistry, molecules, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
540

The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast

by Andrew Blum
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
meteorology, history, weather, hb
Call number
551.63

Gathering Moss: A natural and cultural history of mosses

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback, 2003
Tags
botany, mosses, natural history, essays, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
588.2

The Cloudspotter's Guide: The science, history, and culture of clouds

by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Paperback, 2006
Tags
meteorology, clouds, tpb
Call number
551.576

The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, medicine, cholera, epidemiology, data visualization, maps, london, tpb
Call number
614.514

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, travel, ecology, animals, endangered species, nature, hb
Series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (X)
Call number
591.529 20

A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, history, geology, california, disasters, earthquakes, san francisco, 1906 earthquake, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
979.461051

Spineless: The science of jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone

by Juli Berwald
Paperback, 2017
Tags
science, biology, jellyfish, invertebrates, didn't finish, tpb
Call number
593.5/3

The Code Book: The evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography

by Simon Singh
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, cryptography, hb
Call number
652.809 21

Krakatoa: The day the world exploded, August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2003
Tags
history, disasters, volcanos, indonesia, krakatoa, tpb
Call number
551.2108

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The story of the animals and plants that time has left behind

by Richard A. Fortey
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, biology, paleontology, nature, hb
Call number
595

The Agile Gene: How nature turns on nurture

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

Winter World: The ingenuity of animal survival

by Bernd Heinrich
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, natural history, animal behavior, biology, tpb
Call number
591.43

Coyote America: A natural and supernatural history

by Dan Flores
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
natural history, micro natural history, coyotes, hb
Call number
599.77/25

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

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

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

The Panda's Thumb

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, biology, essays, ftppl, tpb, natural history, can't find our copy, coverguess unavailable
Series
Reflections in Natural History (2)
Call number
575.0162

Rain: A natural and cultural history

by Cynthia Barnett
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, weather, rain, arc, needs review, tpb
Call number
551.577

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum physics and reality

by John R. Gribbin
Paperback, 1984
Tags
nonfiction, physics, quantum, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
530.1/2/09 19

The Signal and the Noise: Why so many predictions fail -- but some don't

by Nate Silver
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, statistics, bayes theorem, big data, prediction, politics, baseball, hb
Call number
519.542

Genius

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

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

Buzz : the nature and necessity of bees

by Thor Hanson
Ebook, 2018
Tags
ebook, unread, natural history, insects, bees
Collection
E-books
Call number
595.79/9

The Triumph of Seeds: How grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, & pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history

by Thor Hanson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, botany, natural history, seeds, tpb
Call number
581.4/67

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
nonfiction, jane's, unread, hb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Call number
153

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America

by David Allen Sibley
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, bird identification, field guide
Call number
598.097

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior

by David Allen Sibley
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, bird behavior, reference, hb
Call number
598.097

Slime: How algae created us, plague us, and just might save us

by Ruth Kassinger
Ebook, 2019
Tags
biology, botany, natural history, micro natural history, algae, seaweed, kelp, ebook, unread
Collection
E-books
Call number
579.8

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

by Richard Louv
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, nature, parenting, sociology, tpb
Call number
155.418

Trilobite! : Eyewitness to evolution

by Richard A. Fortey
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, paleontology, trilobites, invertebrates, tpb
Call number
565.39

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in ice age America

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, ice age, travel, archaeology, tpb
Call number
551.7/92

What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1989
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, feynman, tpb
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Call number
530.092 B 20

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in natural history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1985
Tags
nonfiction, biology, essays, tpb, ftppl, natural history
Collection
Previously Owned
Series
Reflections in Natural History (4)
Call number
508 19

Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, african american history, black women did that, space, space program, history of computing, women's history, wwii, early reviewer, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
510.92/520973

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

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further reflections in natural history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, biology, essays, tpb, natural history
Series
Reflections in Natural History (3)
Call number
575 19

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a chemical boyhood

by Oliver W. Sacks
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
memoir, chemistry, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
540.92

The Sibley Guide to Trees

by David Allen Sibley
Paperback, 2009
Tags
field guide, trees, tree identification
Call number
582.16097 SIB
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