Your Summer Science Reading List from Science News
by Van
Science News (June 30, 2007) recommends “a picnic basket of lively books. Scientists soaring through trees and camping out with ivory-billed woodpeckers are our action heroes. Storytellers describe natural living, raising flowers for profit, and surviving as original Americans. Our dose of summer school seriousness comes from authors trying to explain climate change, the religion-science divide, and the universe itself. Enjoy.”
The Wild Trees: a Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Flower Confidential: the Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman
Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature by Keith Thomson
Ivorybill Hunters: the Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness by Geoffrey E. Hill
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Many Worlds in One: the Search for Other Universes by Alex Vilenkin
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