Niles Public Library District

Science

Hot Zone	by Richard Preston
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	by Mary Roach
Right Stuff	by Tom Wolfe
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales	by Oliver Sacks
Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World	by Steven Johnson
A Short History of Nearly Everything	by Bill Bryson
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain	by Diane Ackerman
Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History	by John M. Barry
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time	by Clark Blaise
Ghosts of Tsave: Stalking the Mystery Lion of East Africa	by Philip Caputo
Craking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA	by Kevin Davies
Microbe Hunters	by Paul De Kruif
Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples	by Tim F. Flannery
Elegant Universe: Superstings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory	by Brian Greene
Brief History of Time	by S.W. Hawking
Man Who Loved Only Numbers	by Paul Hoffman
Broadsides From the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs	by Sue Hubbell
Northern Lights	by Lucy Jago
Structure of Scientific Revolutions	by Thomas S. Kuhn
Evolution of Useful Things	by Henry Petroski
Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World	by Michael Pollan
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind	by David Quammen
Fermat’s Enigma: Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem	by Simon Singh
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time	by Dava Sobel
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemishpere with Migratory Birds	by Scott Weidensaul
Future of Life	by Edward O. Wilson
Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology	by Simon Winchester
A New Kind of Science	by Stephen Wolfram
T.rex and the Crater of Doom	by Walter Alvarez
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion	by Alan Burdick
Postcards from the Brian Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds	by Brian Burrell
Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life	by Paul Davies
Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report	by Timothy Ferris
How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life	by Len Fisher
Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth	by Tim Flannery
First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors	by Ann Gibbons
Chaos: Making a New Science	by James Gleick
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior	by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn	by Hannah Holmes
Physics of Superheroes	by James Kakalios
Field Notes From a Catastrophe	by Elizabeth Kolber
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter	by Sherwin B. Nuland
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century	by Fred Pearce
Demon in the Freezer	by Richard Preston
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales	by Oliver Sacks
Cosmos	by Carl Sagan
Rock From Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets	by Kathy Sawyer
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe	by Simon Singh
Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century	by Lauren Slater
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors	by Nicholas Wade
DNA: The Secret of Life	by James D. Watson
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures	by Carl Zimmer
Ancestor’s Tale: A Pligrimage to the Dawn of Evolution	by Richard Dawkins
Six Easy Pieces: Essential of Physics Explained by Its Most Brillliant Teacher	by Richard P. Feynman
Microcosms: Four Billion Years of Evolution From Our Microbial Ancestors	by Lynn Margulis
Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe	by Roger Penrose
Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language	by Steven Pinker
Warped Passages: Unraveling the myseries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions	by Lisa Randall
Silent Spring	by Rachel Carson
Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America’s Great White Sharks	by Susan Casey
Gorillas in the Mist	by Dian Fossey
Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History	by John M. Barry
A Man on the Moon	by Andrew Chaikin
Kepler’s Witch: An Astonomer’s Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother	by James Connor
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest	by Wade Davis
Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America	by Philip Dray
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World	by Simon Garfield
In the Shadow of Man	by Jane Goodall
Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators	by Gordon Grice
End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age	by John Horgan
Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero	by Robert Kaplan
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio	by Jeffrey Kluger
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion	by Edward J. Larson