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Please consider these books for pleasure reading!
Some
of Bruce Crocker’s Generous Library Donations:
PB
Bronowski, Jacob, 501
Science and human values : rev. ed. with a
new dialogue, The abacus and Bronowski
the rose / by J. Bronowski.
New York : Perennial Library, 1972, c1965.
PB
Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 513
Flatland : a romance of many dimensions /
with illus. by the author, A Abbott
Square
(Edwin A. Abbott) ; with an introduction by A. K. Dewdney.
New York : New American Library, 1984.
PB
Clark, Ronald W., 921
The survival of Charles Darwin : a biography
of a man and an idea / Ronald Darwin
W.Clark.
--.
New York : Avon Books, 1986, c1984.
PB
Clark, Ronald William. 921
Einstein : the life and times / [by] Ronald
W. Clark. Einstein
New York : Avon Books, [1984].
PB
Sobel, Dava. 921
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius
who solved the greatest Harrison
scientific
problem of his time / Dava Sobel.
New York : Penguin Books, 1995.
Reading Program: Reading
Counts RC, RL: 11.0, Points: 12.0. PB
Andrews, Sarah. FIC
Mother nature / Sarah Andrews. Andrews
New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997. Mystery
PB
Andrews, Sarah. FIC
Only flesh and bones / Sarah Andrews. Andrews
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Paperbacks,
1999, c1998. PB FIC
Andrews, Sarah. Andrews
Tensleep / Sarah Andrews. Mystery
New York : Penguin Books, c1995.
PB FIC
Andrews, Sarah. Andrews
A fall in Denver : an Em Hansen mystery /
Sarah Andrews. Mystery
New York : Signet, c1995.
179.1
Nash, Roderick. Nash
The rights of nature : a history of
environmental ethics / Roderick Frazier
Nash.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1989.
303.48
Tenner, Edward. Tenner
Why things bite back : technology and the
revenge of unintended
consequences
/ Edward Tenner.
New York : Knopf, 1996.
303.48
Zimmerman, Michael, Zimmerman
Science,
nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy /
Michael
Zimmerman.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
307.76
Kotkin, Joel. Kotkin
The new geography : how the digital
revolution is reshaping the American
landscape
/ Joel Kotkin.
New York : Random House, c2000.
323.44
Brin, David. Brin
The transparent society : will technology
force us to choose between
privacy
and freedom? / David Brin.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1998.
344.73
Wise, Steven M. Wise
Rattling the cage : toward legal rights for
animals / Steven M. Wise ;
foreword
by Jane Goodall.
Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c2000.
347.067
Huber, Peter W. Huber
Galileo's revenge : junk science in the
courtroom / Peter W. Huber.
[New York, N.Y.] : Basic Books, c1991.
363.1
Chiles, James R. Chiles
Inviting disaster : lessons from the edge of
technology : an inside look at
catastrophes
and why they happen / James R. Chiles.
New York : HarperBusiness, c2001.
500
Friedlander, Michael W. Friedlander
At
the fringes of science / Michael W. Friedlander.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
500
Kaplan
Science says : a collection of quotations on
the history, meaning, and
practice
of science / edited by Rob Kaplan.
New York : W.H. Freeman, 2000.
Reading Program: Feb
2003. 508
Dillard, Annie. Dillard
Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard.
New York : Harper & Row, 1982.
509.4
Lindberg, David C. Lindberg
The beginnings of Western science : the
European scientific tradition in
philosophical,
religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 /
David C. Lindberg.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Reading Program: Feb
2003. 509.73
Bruce, Robert V. Bruce
The launching of modern American science,
1846-1876 / by Robert V. Bruce.
New York : Knopf : 1987.
Reading Program: Feb
2003. 510
Stewart, Ian. Stewart
Nature's numbers : the unreal reality of
mathematics / Ian Stewart.
New York : BasicBooks, c1995.
523.1
Ferris, Timothy. Ferris
The whole shebang : a state-of-the-universe(s)
report / Timothy Ferris.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
523.1
Hawking
Stephen Hawking's A brief history of time :
a reader's companion / edited
by
Stephen Hawking ; prepared by Gene Stone.
New York : Bantam Books, c1992.
523.43
Wilford, John Noble. Wilford
Mars beckons : the mysteries, the
challenges, the expectations of our next
great
adventure in space / by John Noble Wilford.
New York : Knopf, 1990.
530
Feynman, Richard Phillips. Feynman
Six easy pieces : essentials of physics,
explained by its most brilliant
teacher
/ Richard P. Feynman ; originally prepared for publication by Robert
B. Leighton and Matthew Sands; new introduction by Paul Davies.
Reading, Mass. : Helix Books, c1995.
530.11
Gott, J. Richard. Gott
Time travel in Einstein's universe : the
physical possibilities of travel
through
time / J. Richard Gott, III.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.
530.11
Feynman, Richard Phillips. Hatfield
Feynman lectures on gravitation / Richard P.
Feynman, [based on notes by]
Fernando B. Morinigo, William G. Wagner ; edited by Brian
Hatfield ; with a foreword by John Preskill and Kip S. Thorne.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995.
546
Ball, Philip, Ball
The ingredients : a guided tour of the
elements / Philip Ball.
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.
Reading Program: Feb
2003. 550.92
Winchester, Simon. Winchester
The
map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern
geology
/ Simon Winchester.
New York : Perennial, 2002.
551.57
Hamblyn, Richard, Hamblyn
The invention of clouds : how an amateur
meteorologist forged the
language
of the skies / Richard Hamblyn.
New York : Picador, 2002, c2001.
Reading Program: Feb
2003. 569.9
Johanson, Donald C. Johanson
Lucy, the beginnings of humankind / Donald
C. Johanson and Maitland A.
Edey.
New York, NY : Warner Books, [1982] c1981.
569.9
Johanson, Donald C. Johanson
Lucy's child : the discovery of a human
ancestor / Donald Johanson and
James
Shreeve.
New York : Hearst, 1989.
574.8
Watson, James D., Watson
The double helix : a personal account of the
discovery of the structure of
DNA /
by James D. Watson.
New York : W. W. Norton, 1980.
576.8
Jones, Steve, Jones
Darwin's ghost : the origin of species
updated / Steve Jones.
New York : Random House, c2000.
576.8
Koerner, David. Koerner
Here be dragons : the scientific quest for
extraterrestrial life / David
Koerner,
Simon LeVay.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. 576.8
Pennock, Robert T. Pennock
Tower of Babel : the evidence against the
new creationism / Robert T.
Pennock.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
599.82
Strum, Shirley C., Strum
Almost human : a journey into the world of
baboons / Shirley C. Strum ;
drawings
by Deborah Ross.
New York : Random House, 1987.
631.4
Logan, William Bryant. Logan
Dirt : the ecstatic skin of the earth /
William Bryant Logan.
New York : Riverhead Books, 1995.
912.09
Wilford, John Noble. Wilford
The mapmakers. / by John Noble Wilford.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
921
Eiseley, Loren C., Bacon
The man who saw through time / [by] Loren
Eiseley.
New York : Scribner, [1973] 921
Consolmagno, Guy, Consolmagno
Brother
astronomer : adventures of a Vatican scientist / Guy Consolmagno.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2000. 921
Medawar, P. B. Medawar
Memoir of a thinking radish : an
autobiography / Peter Medawar.
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1988, c1986. 921
Tyson, Neil De Grasse. Tyson
The sky is not the limit : adventures of an
urban astrophysicist / Neil de
Grasse
Tyson.
New York : Doubleday, 2000. 925
Lederman
Portraits
of great American scientists / edited by Leon M. Lederman and
Judith
Scheppler.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.
Reading Program: Feb
2003. 936.2
Wainwright, Geoffrey. Wainwright
The
Henge monuments : ceremony and society in prehistoric Britain /
Geoffrey
Wainwright.
London : Thames and Hudson, 1989.
973.3
Cohen, I. Bernard, Cohen
Science and the founding fathers : science
in the political thought of
Jefferson,
Franklin, Adams and Madison / I. Bernard Cohen.
New York : W.W. Norton, c1995. Last modified: 04/01/2003 |