Adult Nonfiction—Science
General Science
Astronomy/Space
Natalie Angier—The Canon
Alex Boese—Electrified Sheep
Michael Brooks—Free Radicals
Ira Flatow—Present at the Future
Richard Holmes—The Age of Wonder
Richard Preston—Panic in Level 4
Mary Roach—Bonk; Gulp; Packing for Mars;
Stiff
Mike Brown—How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Philip C. Plait—Death From the Skies
Neil deGrasse Tyson—Space Chronicles
Biology/Chemistry
George Church—Regenesis
Richard Dawkins—The Greatest Show on Earth
Jack Horner—How to Build a Dinosaur
Sam Kean—The Disappearing Spoon; The Tale
of the Dueling Neurosurgeons; The Violinist’s
Thumb
Lauren Redniss—Radioactive: Marie and Pierre
Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout
Neil Shubin—Your Inner Fish
Mathematics
Leonard Mlodinow—The Drunkard’s Walk: How
Randomness Rules Our Lives
Barbara Oakley—A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at
Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra)
Jennifer Ouellette—The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can
Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a
Zombie Apocalypse
Charles Seife—Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical
Deception
Simon Singh—The Simpsons and Their Mathematical
Secrets
Steven Strogatz—The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math,
From One to Infinity
Nature/Environment
Physics
Sean Carroll—From Eternity to Here
Brian Clegg—Inflight Science
David Kaiser—How the Hippies Saved Physics
Michio Kaku—Physics of the Future
Manjit Kumar—Quantum
Lisa Randall—Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Charles Seife—Sun in a Bottle
DVDs
Mythbusters series (Discovery Channel)
National Geographic
Nova series (PBS Home Video)
Planet Earth series (BBC)
Susan Casey—The Wave
Richard Fortey—Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the
Natural History Museum
Thomas Friedman—Hot, Flat and Crowded
Daniel Goleman—Ecological Intelligence
Adam Leith Gollner—The Fruit Hunters
David George Haskell—The Forest Unseen
Elizabeth Kolbert—The Sixth Extinction
William Bryant Logan—Air: The Restless Shaper of the
World
Richard Mabey—Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most
Unloved Plants
Bill McKibben—Eaarth
Bill Streever—Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places
Alan Weisman—The World Without Us
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