Science Books

• Archaeology
  • Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology by C. W. Ceram
• Economics
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
  • The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in A New World by Alan Greenspan
• Forensics
  • Forensics for Dummies by Douglas Lyle
• General
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Chaos: Making A New Science by James Gleick
  • Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Epic Journey of Discovery that Changed the Way We See the World by Gerard Helferich
  • The Velocity of Honey: and More Science of Everyday Life by Jay Ingram
  • Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century by Michio Kaku
• Geology
  • A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
  • Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
• Life Sciences
  • DNA: The Secret of Life by James Watson
  • Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food by Daniel Charles
  • The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson
  • The Genetic Code by Isaac Asimov
  • The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions by Isaac Asimov
• Mathematics
  • Coincidences, Chaos and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas by Michael Starbird
  • Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
• Nature
  • It's Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky by Jerry Dennis
  • The Bird in the Waterfall: A Natural History of the Oceans, Rivers and Lakes by Jerry Dennis
  • The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis
• Navigation
  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
• Neurology
  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
  • This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of A Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
• Ornithology
  • Birds Wild and Free by AWP Robertson
• Physics
  • Beyond Einstein by Michio Kaku
  • Gravity's Arc: The Story of Gravity, From Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond by David Darling
  • Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku
  • The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
• Weather
  • Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
  • The Weather Book by Jack Williams