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General Curiosity

  • Jay Ingram
    Barmaid’s Brain
    500 I
  • Ian Stewart
    Nature’s Numbers
    510 S
  • Dick Teresi
    Lost Discoveries
    509.3 T
  • David Foster Wallace
    Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
    511.3 W
  • Lisa Jardine
    Ingenious Pursuits
    509.409 J
  • Duncan Watts
    Six Degrees: the science of a connected age
    511.5 W
  • Astronomy & the Universe

  • Timothy Ferris
    Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space
    520 F
  • Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
    Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth
    523.1 K
  • Arthur Upgren
    The Turtle and the Stars
    520 U
  • Janna Levin
    How the Universe Got its Spots
    523.1 L
  • Barry R. Parker
    Chaos in the Cosmos
    520.151 P
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    Measurement & Molecules

  • Ken Alder
    The Measure of All Things
    526.1 A
  • Philip Ball
    Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules
    541.22 B
  • Dava Sobel
    Illustrated Longitude
    526.62 S
  • S. Perkowitz
    Universal Foam: from Cappuccino to the cosmos
    541.3451 P
  • Paul Strathem
    Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements
    540.9 S
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    Geology, Weather & Rocks

  • Alan Cutler
    The Seashell on the Mountaintop
    550.9 C
  • J. Madeleine Nash
    El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
    551.6 N
  • Naomi Oreskes
    Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History
    551 O
  • Gabrielle Walker
    Snowball Earth
    551.6 W
  • Robert Kunzig
    The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves
    551.46 K
  • Edmund Blair Bolles
    The Ice Finders
    551.792 B
  • Joseph Anthony Amato
    Dust: A history of the Small and Invisible
    551.51 A
  • Barbara Freese
    Coal: A Human History
    553.24 F
  • Richard Hamblyn
    The Invention of Clouds
    551.576 H
  • Pierre Laszlo
    Salt: Grain of Life
    553.63 L
  • Bernard Mergen
    Snow in America
    551.57 M
  • Adrian Levy
    The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Jade
    553.87 L
  • Dinosaurs & Fossils

  • Henry Gee
    In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the fossil record
    560.72 G
  • Richard Ellis
    Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans
    567.937 E
  • Deborah Cadbury
    Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science
    560.92 C
  • Wayne Grady
    The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs
    569.9 G
  • Richard A. Fortey
    Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
    565.39 F
  • Pat Shipman
    The Man Who Found the Missing Link
    569.9 S
  • Evolution and Genetics

  • Evelyn Fox Keller
    Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models
    570.1 K
  • Robin Marantz Henig
    A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
    576.64 H
  • Victor K. McElheny
    Watson and DNA
    570.92 M
  • Stephen Jay Gould
    Structure of Evolutionary Theory
    576.8 G
  • Eric P. Widmaier
    The Stuff of Life: Profiles of the Molecules that Make us Tick
    572 W
  • Judith Hooper
    Of Moths and Men: an evolutionary tale: the untold story of Science and the Peppered Moth
    576.82 H
  • P. J. Bentley
    Digital Biology: How Nature is Transforming our Technology & Our Lives
    570.113 B
  • Steve Jones
    Darwin’s Ghost: The Origin of the Species Updated
    576.82 J
  • Richard C. Lewontin
    The Triple Helix: gene organism and environment
    572.801 L
  • J. William Schopf
    Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils
    576.83 S
  • Steven M. Stanley
    Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe allowed Humans to Evolve
    573.2 S
  • V. Courtillot
    Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction
    576.84 C
  • Frank Spencer
    Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery
    573.3 S
  • Elizabeth Royte
    The Tapir’s Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rainforest
    577.34 R
  • Cindy Van Dover
    The Octopus’s Garden: Hydrothermal Vents and Other Mysteries of the Deep Sea
    574.5
  • Michael Pollan
    The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
    581.63 P
  • Fritjof Capra
    The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
    574.01 C
  • Kevin Davies
    Cracking the Genome
    599.93 D
  • Stephen L. Buchmann
    The Forgotten Pollinators
    574.524 B
  • Carl Celso Swisher
    Java Man
    599.93 S
  • Boyce Rensberger
    Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell
    574.87 R
  • Philip Reilly
    Abraham Lincoln’s DNA and other adventures in genetics
    599.935 R
  • David Quammen
    The Song of the Dodo
    574.91 Q
  • Jonathan Marks
    What it means to be 98% Chimpanzee
    599.935 M
  • Tijs Goldschmidt
    Darwin’s Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria
    575.01 G
  • Ian Tattersall
    The Monkey in the Mirror
    599.938 T
  • Nathaniel C. Comfort
    The Tangled Field: B. McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control
    576.5 C
  • Christopher Wills
    Children of Prometheus
    599.938 W
  • Animals

  • Bernd Heinrich
    Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
    591.43 H
  • Scott Weidensaul
    Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
    598.156 W
  • Marc Bekoff
    Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart
    591.5 B
  • Christopher Cokinos
    Hope is the thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
    598.168 C
  • Roger A. Caras
    A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals & Humans through History
    591.5 C
  • Jonathan Weiner
    The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in our Time
    598.8 W
  • Eugene Linden
    The Octopus and the Orangutan: More True Tales of Animal Intrigue
    591.5 L
  • Bruce E. Beans
    Eagle’s Plume
    598.5 B
  • Jonathan Weiner
    Time,Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
    591.5 W
  • Pete Dunne
    The Wind Masters: the lives of North American birds of prey
    598.91 D
  • J. Moussaieff Masson
    When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
    591.51 M
  • Michale A. Mares
    A Desert Calling
    599.1754 M
  • Christopher McGowan
    The Raptor and the Lamb: Predators and Prey in the Living World
    591.53 M
  • Ann Mozley Moyal
    Platypus: the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world
    599.29 M
  • Kim Todd
    Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America
    591.6 T
  • Anne Collet
    Swimming with Giants
    599.5 C
  • Terry Macdonald
    What Killed the Mega Beasts
    591.68 D
  • Alexandra Morton
    Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
    599.5092 M
  • Scott Weidensaul
    The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
    591.68 W
  • Dick Russell
    Eye of the Whale
    599.522 R
  • Richard Ellis
    Aquagenesis
    591.77 E
  • Michael Allin
    Zarafa: A Giraffe’s True Story
    599.638 A
  • Sue Hubbell
    Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones
    592 H
  • Ruth Berman
    American Bison
    599.64 L
  • Richard Ellis
    The Search for the Giant Squid
    594.58 E
  • Martin Meredith
    Elephant Destiny
    599.674 M
  • Gilbert Waldbauer
    What Good Are Bugs?
    595.717 W
  • Richard Ives
    Of Tigers and Men
    599.74 I
  • Kurt Johnson
    Nabokov’s Blues
    595.78 J
  • Peter Steinhart
    The Company of Wolves
    599.74 S
  • Sue Halpern
    Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch
    595.789 H
  • Cory J. Meacham
    How the Tiger Lost Its Stripes
    599.744 M
  • Sharman Apt. Russell
    An Obsession with Butterflies
    595.789 R
  • Philip Caputo
    Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
    599.757 C
  • Samantha Weinberg
    A Fish Caught in Time: the search for the coelacanth
    597.39 W
  • Sy Montgomery
    Search for the Golden Moon Bear
    599.78 M
  • John A. McPhee
    The Founding Fish
    597.45 M
  • Robert M. Sapolsky
    A Primate’s Memoir
    599.8 S
  • George W. Barlow
    The Cichlid Fishes
    597.74 B
  • Hans Kummer
    In Quest of the Sacred Baboon
    599.82 K
  • KJK 8/04