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)
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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)
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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)
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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