This list of books was compiled from suggestions by our staff, guests, and callers
during the June 29, 2001 "Summer Science Books" show.

"The Sibley Guide to Birds : Field Identification (Audubon Society Nature Guides Ser.)" by David Allen Sibley. Knopf, 2000.

"The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" by Michael Pollan. Random House, 2001.

"The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2000" by David Quammen (Introduction), Burkhard Bilger (Editor).Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

"Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands" by Edward J. Larson. Basic Books, 2001.

"Einstein in Love : A Scientific Romance" by Dennis Overbye. Viking, 2000.

"An Intimate Look at the Night Sky" by Chet Raymo. Walker & Co, 2001.

"Collision Course : Cosmic Impacts and Life on Earth" by Fred Bortz. Millbrok Press, 2001.

"Backyard Birds (Peterson Field Guides for Young Naturalists)." by Jonathan P. Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting, Roger Tory Peterson (Illustrator), Virginia Marie Peterson. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1999. (and others in this series)

"A Field Guide to Western Birds : A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico" by Roger Tory Peterson (Illustrator). Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

"Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin A. Abbott. Dover Pubns, 1992.

"The Neptune File : A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting" by Tom Standage. Walker & Co, 2000.

"Laughter : A Scientific Investigation" by Robert R. Provine. Viking, 2000.

"The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner. Vintage Books, 1995.

"Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters," by Matt Ridley. HarperCollins, 2000.

"Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" by Brian Greene. W.W. Norton, 1998.

"A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth" by Samantha Weinberg. Harperperennial Library, 2001.

"When Nietzsche Wept/a Novel of Obsession" by Irvin D. Yalom. Harperperennial Library, 1993.

"The Spark of Life : Darwin and the Primeval Soup" by Christopher Wills, Jeffrey Bada. Perseus Books, 2001.

"Jacobson's Organ : And the Remarkable Nature of Smell" by Lyall Watson. Plume, 2001.

"Universal Foam: From Cappuccino to the Cosmos" by Sidney Perkowitz.Walker & Co, 2000.

"Biography of a Germ" by Arno Karlen, Julie Doughty (Editor). Knopf, 2001.

"My Season With Penguins : An Antarctic Journal" by Sophie Webb (Illustrator). Houghton Mifflin , 2000.

"Brooklyn Bridge" by Lynn Curlee (Illustrator). Atheneum, 2001.

"Turtle Splash : Countdown at the Pond "by Cathryn Falwell (Illustrator). Greenwillow, 2001.

"The Wildlife Detectives : How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature (Scientists in the Field)" by Donna M. Jackson. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

"Wilderness and Razor Wire" by Ken Lamberton, Richard Shelton. Mercury House, 2000.

"Driving Mr. Albert" by Michael Paterniti. Dell Books, 2001.

"E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation" by David Bodanis. Walker & Co, 2000.

"Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife. Viking, 2000.

"Arctic Dreams : Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape" by Barry Lopez. Havill Pr, 1999.

"Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris. Anchor, 1989.

"The Whole Shebang : A State-Of-The-Universe(S) Report" by Timothy Ferris. Simon & Schuster, 1997.

"The Hole in the Universe : How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything" by K. C. Cole. Harcourt Brace, 2001.

"The Fourth Dimension : Sacred Geometry, Alchemy, and Mathematics" by Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophic Pr, 2001.

"Black Holes : A Traveler's Guide" by Clifford A. Pickover. John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

"Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos" by Mitchell Begelman. Perseus, 2000.

"The Earth Dwellers : Adventures in the Land of Ants" by Erich Hoyt. Touchstone Book, 1997.

"Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized," by Deborah M. Gordon. Free Press, 1999.

"The Red Hourglass : Lives of the Predators" by Gordon Grice. Delta, 1999.

"The Lady Tasting Tea : How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century" by David Salsburg. W H Freeman & Co, 2001.

"Wild and Swampy" by Jim Arnosky (Illustrator). HarperCollins Children's Books, 2000.

"All about Rattlesnakes" by Jim Arnosky. 1997.

"The Change in the Weather : People, Weather, and the Science of Climate" by William K. Stevens. Delta, 2001.