Friday, December 7th, 2007

Science Book Picks for 2007

What were your favorite science-related books this year? In this segment, Ira and guests discuss notable books about science, medicine, and the environment that were published in the last year.

Books Suggested by Ira and Guests
"Apollo's Fire" by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks
"Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination" by Michael Sims
"Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race" by Richard Rhodes
"A Ball, A Dog, and a Monkey" by Michael D'Antonio
"The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days" by Mark Edmundson
"Einstein, His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson
"A Field Guide to Bacteria by" Betsey Dexter Dyer
"Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death" by Deborah Blum
"Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes
"Good Germs, Bad Germs" by Jessica Snyder Sachs
"The Grid" by Phil Schewe
"How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman
"The Invisible Cure" by Helen Epstein
"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks.
"Overtreated" by Shannon Brownlee
"Storm World" by Chris Mooney
"The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker
"Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put it at Risk" by Michael Novacek
"What We Know About Climate Change" by Kerry Emmauel

Copernicus's De Revolutionibus,
Newton's Principia,
Darwin's Origin of Species

Books Suggested by Callers
"The Emperor of Scent" by Chandler Burr
"The Seashell on the Mountaintop" by Alan Cutler
"A Secular Age" by Charles Taylor
"Storm World" by Chris Mooney
"Heaven and Hell" by Emanuel Swedenborg, Bernhard Lang, and George F. Dole

Guests

Phillip Manning
Science Writer
Freelance Book Reviewer, Raleigh News & Observer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Chronicle,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Deborah Blum
Author, "Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death," (Penguin Press, 2006)
Professor, Science Journalism
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin