best science books 2012
jdupuis | December 5, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Booklist Online Top 10 Science and Health Books.
The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds by Julie Zickefoose
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding…
jdupuis | December 4, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Financial Times Best Books of 2012.
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and…
jdupuis | December 3, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors' Picks.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What…
jdupuis | November 30, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Boing Boing Gift Guide.
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science by Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski and David Macaulay
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Illustrated Guide to Home…
jdupuis | November 27, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: New York Times 100 Notable Books.
Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate by Ivor Noël Hume
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stot
The Folly…
jdupuis | November 26, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Globe and Mail 100.
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen R. Bown
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution by David Rothenberg
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origin of the Digital Universe by George Dyson…
jdupuis | November 21, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Brain Pickings.
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired by Till Roenneberg
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science by Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski…
jdupuis | November 20, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Barnes & Noble Best Books 2012: Art, Architecture & Photography; Computer; Medical & Nursing; Professional & Education; .
Life in Color: National Geographic Photographs by Annie Griffiths
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins…
jdupuis | November 19, 2012It is time. The season of lists begins again!
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that I can find around the web in various media outlets.
From the beginning it's been a pretty popular service so I'm happy to continue it.
For my purposes, I define science books pretty broadly to include science, engineering, computing, history & philosophy of science & technology, environment, social aspects of science and even business books about technology trends or technology innovation. Deciding what is and…