2009年1月3日星期六

种子(Seed ) 推荐的 2008 年度好书

种子 Seed 是一本平易近人的科普杂志, 以下是它推荐 2008 的好书。


1, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure By Paul A. Offit (Columbia University Press)
2, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex By Mary Roach (W.W. Norton) 砰!科学与性的离奇结合(中文书评) http://www.douban.com/review/1460151/
3, Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It By Elizabeth Royte (Bloomsbury) 瓶装水热:探秘水的销售与购买 (中文书评) http://yingzhou.blog.sohu.com/91269023.html
4, Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain By Kirsten Menger-Anderson (Algonquin Books)
5, The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich (Island Press)
6, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet By Oliver Morton (Harper Collins)
7, The Endless City Edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic (Phaidon)
8, The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming By Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King (Harcourt)
9, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique By Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ecco)人类:令我们独一无二的科学秘密(中文书评)http://www.law58.cn/article/1492.html
10, Icarus at the Edge of Time By Brian Greene (Knopf Publishing Group)
11, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto By Michael Pollan (Penguin Press)
12, The Invention of Air: A Study of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America By Steven Johnson (Riverhead Books)
13, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces By Frank Wilczek (Basic Books)
14, The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe By Chris Impey (Random House)
15, The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBy Simon Winchester (Harper)
16, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life By Carl Zimmer (Pantheon)
17, Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them By David Anderegg (Tarcher)

18, The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life By Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot (Gotham) 19, On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science By Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides (Harvard University Press)
20, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions By Dan Ariely (Harper) 己有中译.
21, Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food By Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak (Oxford University Press)
22, The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA By Mark Schultz, Illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon (Hill and Wang)
23, The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strageness of Insect Societies By Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson (W.W. Norton)
24, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature By Daniel J. Levitin (Dutton)
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