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The Science Friday Bookshelf

Books mentioned during our December 13, 2002 'Science Books' segment and/or books recommended by the Science Friday staff:

"Seeing in the Dark," by Timothy Ferris

"A Rage for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Farrer, Gardener, Writer and Plant Collector" by Nicola Shulman.

"The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA" by James Watson.

 

"Love at Goon Park," by Deborah Blum

"The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker

"How the Universe Got its Spots" by Janna Levin

"Drawing the Line" by Steven Wise

"Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden" by Diane Ackerman

"Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections" by Madeline Drexler

"Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life" by Gaby Wood

"Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA" by Brenda Maddox

"The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story" by Richard Preston

"Earth from Above" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Photographer), et al

"Complications" by Atul Gawande

"The Millennium Problems," by Keith Devlin. (Basic Books, 2002)

"If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens . . . Where Is Everybody? : Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life " by Stephen Webb (Praxis, 2002)

"The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome" by John Sulston, Georgina Ferry

"What Einstein Told His Cook" by Robert Wolke

"A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram

"The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe" by Stephen Hawking

"Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed" by Phil Plait

"Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye" by David Malin, et al

"Prey" by Michael Crichton

"The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time" by Douglas Adams

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