Category:Book Notes

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Readers of science books may wish to know about our 2008 Science-Book Challenge. Enjoy a book and help improve science literacy!

Book Notes are our brief assessments of books about science and technology and their relationship with society, books that are enjoyable and enlightening.

Each Book Note has a chart of ratings and accompanying notes.

For contributors preparing their own online notes, please see the page of Notes on Book Notes. Other contributors may wish to use the book-note form for submissions.

Articles in category "Book Notes"

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A Abbott: What A Way To Go Aczel: The Mystery of the Aleph Allen: Vaccine Alley: The Two-Mile Time Machine Angel: The Tale of the Scale Angier: The Canon Angier: The Canon (2) Arthur: Creatures of Accident Atkins: The Periodic Kingdom B Baker: Double Fold Ball: Bright Earth Ball: Critical Mass Ball: Stories of the Invisible Ball: The Ingredients Barron: Piano Bird: American Prometheus Blaise: Time Lord Bloom: Out There Bondeson: Buried Alive Boslaugh: When Computers Went to Sea Brown: Angels and Demons Burger: Flowers Burke: Circles Burke: Connections Butcher: Jules Verne C Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful D Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable Dawkins: The Ancestor's Tale Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker Dennett: Breaking the Spell Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea Dennett: Freedom Evolves Diamond: Collapse Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee E Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus F Ferguson: Tycho and Kepler

F cont. Finlay: Jewels Flannery: In Code Forbes: The Gecko's Foot G Garfield: Mauve Gleick: Isaac Newton Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox H Hayes: The Anatomist Hecht: Doubt, a History Huler: Defining The Wind J Jackson: Unspun Jardine: Ingenious Pursuits Jeffreys: Aspirin Johnson: Miss Leavitt's Stars Johnson: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments K Kendall: The Man Who Made Lists Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male Koff: The Bone Woman Kurlansky: Salt L Larson: Isaac's Storm Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons LeVay: When Science Goes Wrong Lembke: Despicable Species Levitt: Freakonomics Lewin: Complexity Lienhard: How Invention Begins Lienhard: Inventing Modern Lightman: A Sense of the Mysterious Livio: The Golden Ratio Lynch: The Highest Tide M Manguel: A History of Reading Manhein: Trail of Bones Marcus: Kluge McCredie: Balance Moffett: The Three-Pound Enigma Monmonier: Air Apparent Mooney: The Republican War on Science Mullane: Riding Rockets

O Orlean: The Orchid Thief P Petroski: Success Through Failure Pinker: The Stuff Of Thought Pollan: In Defense of Food Pollan: The Botany of Desire Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma (2) Q Quammen: The Boilerplate Rhino Quammen: The Reluctant Mr. Darwin R Rappole: Birds of the Mid-Atlantic Region Raymo: Walking Zero Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb Ridley: The Red Queen Ridley: The Red Queen (2) Roach: Spook Roach: Stiff Robinson: Lost Languages Robinson: The Story of Measurement S Sacks: Uncle Tungsten Schwartz: In Pursuit of the Gene Shermer: Science Friction Short: The World Through Maps Simon: Dark Light Sobel: The Illustrated Longitude Squyres: Roving Mars Sullivan: Rats T Thomas: The Lives of a Cell Trout: Tell Me Where It Hurts Tudge: The Time Before History Tyson: Death by Black Hole V Vogel: Cat's Paws and Catapults W Watson: Ideas Watson: The Double Helix Wilson: The Creation Winchester: The Map That Changed The World