Essays & Commentary Books


When Science Goes Wrong Best Price: $8.84 A most enjoyable book. I read other books of this author and have always been fascinated by his...	Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion Best Price: $14.82 The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest,...	Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries Best Price: $8.20 I hate to use those descriptors in the title but I couldn't think of a better way to say it....	The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Best Price: $23.07 Dawkins' frequently claims that there is a much richer contemplative nature to a scientific view...	The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats Best Price: $12.47 The Taste of Sweet gives readers plenty of (delicious) food for thought. Sugar love Joanne Chen...



The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Best American Science Writing) Best Price: $5.30 . . . advances in medical knowledge and therapies, then this is the book for you. Not...	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $8.00 This year's Best American series seems to be the weakest one yet, and the science and nature...	A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love Best Price: $6.25 This is a book to sit and read. You are going to reflect why the evolutionary understanding is...	Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character Best Price: $14.71 The stories in this book gave be belly laughs, and they also made me think.	What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better Best Price: $8.20 Here is the 2007 EDGE question, put by the editor to prominent scientists all over the world: ...



Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions Best Price: $12.49 An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His Craft Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished...	How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization Best Price: $13.60 Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their...	Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Best Price: $5.48 Lewis Thomas is that odd trifecta: a learned scientist; a speculative philosopher; and a master...	What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty Best Price: $3.98 As a scientist I approached this book with a lot of expectations. I wanted to know what the...	The Best American Science Writing 2006 (Best American Science Writing) Best Price: $4.99 I was a bit skeptical getting a readers-digest type of a book. However, this turned out to be...

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century Best Price: $3.78 This book is definitely interesting and well written, and puts forth generally plausible ideas...	The Best of Technology Writing 2007 (Best of Technology Writing) Best Price: $11.34 This is a great collection of essays from the blogosphere covering tech topics and some...	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $2.22 I read the best american series every year, in fact, with science and nature writing, I've been...	The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books Collection) Best Price: $15.58 Dyson holds high credentials as an innovative mathematician and theoretical physicist, and has...	The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World Best Price: $18.57 i am only on the 3rd or 4th chapter (the chapters aren't numbered traditionally so off the top...

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health Best Price: $14.28 How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others...	The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview Best Price: $12.88 This posthumously published book is a collection of papers published between 1970 and 1993...	Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists Best Price: $20.04 "...Thursday" is a very useful, encouraging and illuminating book for women pursuing...	Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants) Best Price: $3.47 For students of history, here is a reprint of one of Kepler's works. Centuries old. But...	Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement Best Price: $5.74 Anyone interested in what real scientists have to say about "intelligent design" ought...

Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings--Both Serious and Whimsical Best Price: $16.84 For over fifty years Martin Gardner has been delighting readers with elegant, witty, and highly...	Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition Best Price: $8.00 This book certainly creates controversy as the disparate ratings from one to five stars...	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Best Price: $4.98 This is the book that reminds us why Stephen Jay Gould was the Great One. He was perhaps the...	What's Past is Prologue: The Personal Stories of Women in Science at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Best Price: $15.65 In this era of our hunger for all things "reality", this book truly stands out as an...	Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science Best Price: $18.99 Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining...

Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the nature of Nature (Sciencewriters) Best Price: $14.06 Profound science combined with wit and the subtlety of Dickinson. Not to be missed..Nature loves...	I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity Best Price: $14.40 Perutz is not only a biochemist and a Nobel Laureate physicist, but a witty and graceful writer...	The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2005 (Best American) Best Price: $2.41 Another great year of science writing. There is a lot of great stuff in this collection. I read...	Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence Best Price: $7.98 This is a great book, which touches on a number of subjects, but is directed to the concept that...	A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (Page Barbour Lectures) Best Price: $13.70 Crystalline writing and thinking in this book that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries. Nathan...

Principia (On the Shoulders of Giants) Best Price: $6.49 A few years ago I was bored with most of what was available in book stores, and it seemed as...	Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark Best Price: $2.37 This highly unusual examination of the phases of night will ensure that never again will you be...	A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition Best Price: $45.00 This is a very informative book, which can be a very useful reference for kids' scientific...	Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown Best Price: $3.41 I'll be brief here. The book is alright, and as someone who is interested in science and the...	Phage And the Origins of Molecular Biology, The Centennial Edition Best Price: $25.65 This hugely influential book, published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbr?ck, is...

The Best of Technology Writing 2006 (Best of Technology Writing) Best Price: $10.20 Excellent and entertaining book. Just start with the story 'Living La Vida Robot'.I particularly...	The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2000 Best Price: $4.24 Of all the annual `best of' anthologies, Houghton Mifflin's Best American Science and Nature...	It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science Best Price: $6.50 This is very much a mixed bag. There are many interesting anecdotes and lots of biographical...	Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (Representation and Mind Series) Best Price: $16.47 "This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we...	The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History Best Price: $3.65 I am just getting around to several works that have rested on my shelves, unreviewed since first...

Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (Science and Cultural Theory) Best Price: $19.95 Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against...	Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Science and Cultural Theory) Best Price: $20.20 Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to...	What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline Best Price: $5.70 My favorite quotes from this text are: "glossary [...] vitalism: the now thoroughly...	Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know: 99 Fascinating Questions About the Chemistry of Everyday Life Best Price: $4.00 The "Dr. Joe" books are all very readable, interesting, informative, and bring some...	The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $1.92 Edward Wilson guest edits the second in the Science and Nature Writing Series, and unlike many...

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (On the Shoulders of Giants) Best Price: $1.32 This is an excellent book, but I don't think it's quite what the publisher thought it was. The...	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $1.87 As a newcomer into the scientific writing world I decided to read as many articles as I could in...	Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time (ScienceWriters) Best Price: $22.53 XXXXX Consider these eight statements: (1) "There is a psychological immune system...	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $2.21 Part of what makes this collection so interesting and of lasting value is the wide range of...	The Intelligence of Flowers Best Price: $7.25 A new translation of one of Maeterlinck's four great nature essays.

The Fermi Solution Best Price: $4.69 Professor von Baeyer deserves credit for more than just making physics understandable(a physics...

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