Genre search:Science & Nature

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1999
Tags
travel, humor, hiking, appalachian trail, tpb
Call number
917.404/43 21

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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

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

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 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

Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid

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

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

"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

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

Cosmos

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

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

Chaos: Making a new science

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

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

The Blind Watchmaker

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

Salt : a world history

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, food, food history, salt, tpb, can't find our copy
Call number
553.63209

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

The Language Instinct

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

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain

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

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 Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition

by Edward R. Tufte
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, data, data presentation, data visualization, information, jane's, hb, coverguess unavailable
Collection
Jane's
Call number
001.4226 21

How the Mind Works

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

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 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

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

The Discoverers

by Daniel J. Boorstin
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, hb
Series
Boorstin's Histories (1)
Call number
909 19

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven paradoxical tales

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, neurology, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
616.8 20

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

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

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

Desert Solitaire: A season in the wilderness

by Edward Abbey
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, ecology, nature, american southwest, desert, utah, arches national park, jane's, tpb, can't find our copy — 1 more, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Call number
917.9259

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

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 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 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

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 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

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 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

Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, fish, cod, food history, tpb, ftpml
Call number
333.95/6633

Genius

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

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

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

Visual Explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative

by Edward R. Tufte
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, data presentation, data visualization, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
302.23

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

Complications: A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science

by Atul Gawande
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, medicine, surgery, memoir, tpb
Call number
617.092B

Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin
Paperback, 2004
Tags
jane's, nonfiction, exploration, travel, natural history, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
508.8

And the Band Played On: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic

by Randy Shilts
Paperback, 1988
Tags
history, lgbtq, aids, us history, tpb, ftpml
Call number
362.1/969792/00973

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
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