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Category: Science (Sorted by Author's last name)

Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water (2000) - Philip Ball ( -)    (Grade:B+)

Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson (5/27/1907 -4/14/1964)    (Grade:F)

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge (2003) - John L. Casti (1943-)    (Grade:A-)

On Great White Wings : The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight (2001) - Fred E. C. Culick (-)    (Grade:A-)

The Brain that Changes Itself (2007) - Norman Doidge (-)    (Grade:A-)

Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988) - Timothy Ferris (-)    (Grade:A)

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of The Biotechnology Revolution (2002) - Francis Fukuyama (10/27/1952 -)    (Grade:A)

Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000) - Laurie Garrett (-)    (Grade:F)

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002) - Atul Gawande (1965-)    (Grade:B)

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992) - Al Gore (1948-)    (Grade:F)

A Mathematician's Apology (1940) - G. H. Hardy (1877-1947)    (Grade:C+)

A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) - Stephen W. Hawking (1/08/1942 -03/14/2018)    (Grade:B-)

The Birthmark (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (7/04/1804 -5/19/1864)    (Grade:A)

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex (2015) - Michael Hitzlik (11/09/52 -)    (Grade:A)

The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria (2001) - Mark Honigsbaum (-)    (Grade:C+)

Across the Red Line : Stories from the Surgical Life (2002) - Richard C. Karl (1945-)    (Grade:A-)

Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (2003) - Gina Kolata (02/25/1948-)    (Grade:A-)

The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970)    (Grade:A-)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) - Thomas S. Kuhn (1929 -1996)    (Grade:A)

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness (2006) - Fred Kuttner (-)    (Grade:A)

Einstein's Dreams (1993) - Alan P. Lightman (11/28/1948 -)    (Grade:A)

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (2008) - Martin Lindstrom (1970-)    (Grade:B+)

Food's Frontier : The Next Green Revolution (2000) - Richard Manning (-)    (Grade:B+)

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) - Bill McKibben (1960-)    (Grade:D+)

Annals of the Former World (1998) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)    (Grade:B+)

Surviving Galeras (2001) - Fen Montaigne (1952-)    (Grade:B-)

The Physics of the Buffyverse (2006) - Jennifer Ouellette (-)    (Grade:B)

The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds (2006) - Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1968-)    (Grade:A+)

The Mummy Congress : Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (2001) - Heather Pringle (-)    (Grade:A-)

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--On Earth and Beyond () - Martin J. Rees (06/23/1942 -)    (Grade:B)

The New Brain (2003) - Richard M. Restak (-)    (Grade:B)

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997) - Richard Rhodes (-)    (Grade:B-)

A Rum Affair : A True Story of Botanical Fraud (1999) - Karl Sabbagh (-)    (Grade:B-)

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) - C. P. Snow (1905 -1980)    (Grade:D)

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (2017) - Jimmy Soni ( -)    (Grade:A)

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999) - Neal Stephenson (1959-)    (Grade:B+)

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) - Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)    (Grade:C)

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003) - David Foster Wallace (02/21/1962 -09/12/2008)    (Grade:C)

Surviving Galeras (2001) - Stanley Williams (1952-)    (Grade:B-)

A New Kind of Science (2002) - Stephen Wolfram (1959-) (Grade:A+)

How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (2008) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -) (Grade:B+)