any book

Jean Craigehead George

any book

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either

James Trefil

50 Degrees Below

Kim Stanley Robinson

A Brief History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

A Child is Born

Lennart Nilsson

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California

Simon Winchester

A Feeling for the Organism

Evelyn Fox Keller

A Field Guide to Germs

Wayne Biddle

A Fish caught in time

Samantha Weinberg

A Gebra Named Al

Wendy Isdell

A Hair in my Dirt

Gary Larson

A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold,

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Mike Bowling

A short history of progress  

Ronal Wright   

A Silent Spring

Rachel Carson,

A World Without Time

Palle Yourgrau, William Frucht

African Genesis

Robert Ardrey .

After Man

Dougal Dixon

Air Apparent

Mark Monmonier

Alaska

James Michener

And No Birds Sang

Farley Mowat

Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton.

Animal Architecture

Mike Hansell

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

Another Planet:  A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School

Burkitt, Elinor.

Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery

Isaac Asimov

At the Earth's Core 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

At the Fringes of Science

Friedlander, M.W.

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

Philip C Plait "

Barren Lands; An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic

Kevin Krajick

Beasts of Tarzan 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Beyond Stones & Bones

Newsweek March 19, 2007

Beyond the Hundreth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of

Wallace Stegner

Big Bang

Simon Singh

Botany of Desire

Michael Pollan

Catskills in the Ice Age"

Robert Titus. Purple Mountain Press.

Chasing the Monsoon,

Alistair Fraser

Chemistry Connections: The Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena, Second Edition (Complementary Science)

Kerry K. Karukstis, Gerald R. Van Hecke

Chromosome 6

Robin Cook

City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende   http://www.isabelallende.com/city_frame.htm 

Coal: A Human History

Barbara Freese

Cod

Mark Kurlansky

Code Orange

Carolyn Cooney

Collapse    

Jared Diamond  

Coming of Age in the Milky Way,

Timothy Ferris

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Crime Scene Investigations : Real-Life Science Activities for the Elementary Grades

Pam Walker, Elaine Wood

Crucibles, the Story of Chemistry

Bernard Jaffee. 

Dance of the Tiger

Bjorn Kurten

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Mullis, K.

Darwin for Beginners

Jonathan Miller and Borin Van Loon

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

William R. Maples, Michael Browning.

Deep Wizardry

Diane Duane

Deep, Hot Biosphere"

Thomas K. Gold

Demon in the Freezer

Richard Preston

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey

Detective Science: 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for Kids

Jim Wiese

Devils, Drugs & Doctors (The Story of Healing from Medicine-Man to Doctor)

Howard W. Haggard (much older book)

Diamond: The History of a Cold Blooded Love Affair

Matthew Hart

Dinosaur Heresies

Bob Bakker

DK Eyewitness books

Domain

Steve Alten

Down the Great Unknown

Edward Dolnick

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation.

Olivia Judson. 

Earth from Above

Claire Parkinson

Earth--An Intimate History

Richard Fortey

Earthquake at Dawn

Kristiana Gregory

Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

Ecology and Management of the Whitetailed Deer

(Stackpole books)

Ecology and Management of the Wild Turkey

(Stackpole Books)

Ecology of Desert Organisms

G.N. Louw and M.K. Seely. 

Electric Universe

David Bodanis

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

Carl Zimmer

Explorabook

John Cassidy, Exploratorium

Fantastic Voyage

Issac Asmov

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

Father of Genetics    

Robin Maranz Henig

Fault line

Sarah Andrews

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson.

Finding Order in Nature

Paul Farber

Five Equations That Changed the World

Michael Guillen

Flatland 

Edwin Abbot

For Love of Insects

Thomas Eisner

Forty Signs of Rain

Kim Stanley Robinson

From Conception to Birth

Alexander Tsiaras

Galileo’s Commandment

Edmund Blair Bolles

Galileo's Daughter

Dava Sobel

Genome: The Autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

Matt Ridley

Gods of Mars 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Gorillas in the Mist 

Dian Fossey    

Gray's Anatomy

Henry Gray

Great Feuds in Science         

Hal Hellman            

Grossology

Sylvia Branzei, Jack Keely

Guns, Germs and Steel  

Jared Diamond

Hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox

Stephen J Gould

Hiroshima

John Hersey

History

Walter Pitman and Bill Ryan

House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

How Come? Every Kid's Science Questions Explained

Kathy Wollard, Debra Solomon

How Come? Planet Earth

Kathy Wollard, Debra Solomon

How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World.

Faith McNulty

Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Icefire

Judith Revees-Stevens

Impact Jupiter: The Crach of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9

David Levy

In the Shadow of Man

Jane Goodall

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Larson, Erik, and Isaac Monroe Cline

Journey to the Ants

Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne

Jungle Tales of Tarzan 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Killer Dust

Sarah Andrews

Killer Germs

Barry and David Zimmerman

King Solmon's Ring

Conrad Lorenz,

Krakatoa

Simon Winchester

Last Train to Paradise,

Les Standiford

Life On Man (The History of "Dirt")

Theodor Rosebury

Lives of a Cell

Lowell Thomas

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of All Time

Dava Sobel, Neil Armstrong

Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life

Harold Morowitz,

Meg

Steve Alten

Michael Faraday 

Colin Archibald Russell

Microbe Hunters

Paul De Kruif

Mind of the Raven

Bernd Heinrich

Mistaken Extinction

Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe

Molecules at an Exhibition

Emsley

Mother of all storms

John Barnes

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed the World

Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson

Natural Selection

Dave Freedman. 

Nerve Endings; the Discovery of the Synapse.

Richard Rapport

Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat

Noah's Flood: New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed

William Ryan

Obsessive Genius

Barbara Goldsmith

October Sky (Rocket Boys)

Homer Hickam

Oh, Yuck--the Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty

Joy Masoff

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Out of Time's Abyss 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Owls aren't wise & Bats aren't Blind

Warner Shedd

Panda's Thumb

Stephen J Gould

Perfect Match,

Jodi Picoult.

Pine Barrens

John McPhee

Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel

Thomas McMahon

QUAKE! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906 

Gail Langer Karwoski

Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs

Joe Schwarcz

Rats, Lice and History

Hans Zinsser

Relativity

Albert Einstein, Robert W. Lawson

Return of Tarzan 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Richter 10

Mike McQuay

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America-

John Barry

Rock of Ages

Stephen J Gould

Rosalind Franklin and DNA

Anne Sayre

Science Matters : Achieving Scientific Literacy

Robert Hazen and James Trefil

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Sylvia Earle

Seeing in the Dark

Timothy Ferris

Seven Clues to the Origin of Life

A.G. Cairns-Smith

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Six Easy Pieces

Richard Feynman

Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe that Spawned Life as We Know It

Gabrielle Stiff

Son of Tarzan 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Spineless Wonders

Richard Conniff

Squashed

Joan Bauer

Starry Messenger

Peter Sis

State of Fear

Michael Crighton--

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Storm of the Century, the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935,

William Drye

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A Heinlein

Structure of Scientific Revolution

Thomas S. Kuhn

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman

Survival of The Sickest

Sharon Moalem,

T Rex and the Crater of Doom

Walter Alvarez

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Tarzan of the Apes 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Tarzan the Terrible  

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Tarzan the Untamed 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

That’s the way the cookie crumbles

Joe Schwarcz

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

Joe Schwarcz

The Andromeda Strain

Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Rick Schroder, and Andre Braugher

The Arm of the Starfish

Madeline L'Engle

The Beak of the Finch 

Jonathan Weiner

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

The Botany of Desire

Michael Polan

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science'

Natalie Angier  

The Cartoon Guide to Genetics

Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis

The Cartoon Guide to Physics

Larry Gonick, Art Huffman

The Coldest March

Susan Solomon

The Coming Plague,

Laurie Garrett

The Control of Nature

John McPhee http://www.johnmcphee.com/bookshelf.htm



The Cry and the Covenant

Morton Thompson

The Dancing Wu Li Masters

Gary Zukav

The Day the Universe Changed -- revised edition

James Burke

The Demon in the Freezer

Richard Preston

The Double Helix

James Watson

The Elegant Universe

Brian Greene

The Evolution Man or How I Ate my Father  

Roy Lewis.

The Flamingo's Smile

Stephen Jay Gould

The Floating Egg

Roger Osbourne

The Fly in the Ointment

Joe Schwarcz

The Forgotten Pollinators

Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan

The Genie in the Bottle

Joe Schwarcz

The Grasses

Alma Chesnut Moore –

The Hot Zone

Richard Preston http://www.richardpreston.net/books/hz.html

The Hungry Ocean

Linda Greenlaw

The Land That Time Forgot 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

The Lives of a Cell 

Lewis Thomas.

The Lorax

Dr. Seuss

The Lost Continent 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

The Lost World

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930

The Map that Changed the World

Simon Winchester

The Medusa and the Snail 

Lewis Thomas

The Monk in the Garden

Robin Henig

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Polan

The People That Time Forgot 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

The Science of Harry Potter

Richard Highfield

The selfish gene

Richard Dawkins

The Song of the Dodo

David Quammen

The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus, The 13th Element

John Emsley

The Thermodynamics of Pizza

Harold Morowitz. 

The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin,

The Witch Doctor's Apprentice

Nicole Maxwell

The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics

Timothy Ferris, Clifton Fadiman

Thirty Years That Shook Physics,

George Gamow. On a Piece of Chalk

To Know a Fly

Vincent Dethier.

Trapped!, the Story of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave

Roger Brucker

T-Rex and the Crater of Doom-

Walter Alvarez

Uncle Tungsten

Oliver Sacks

Understanding Relativity

Leo Sartori

Universe at your finger tips

Andrew Fraknoi

USA Today Weather Book-

Jack Williams

Vulcan's Forge

Jack B. Du Brul

War-lord of Mars 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Watchers at the Pond

Franklin Russell

Waves and Grains

Author: Mark P. Silverman

What Einstein Told His...(several different titles)

Wolke

When Life Nearly Died (The Permian Extinction)

Michael J. Benton

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time 

Shermer, M.

Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down

Robert Ehrlich

Within Reach: My Everest Story

Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin.

Wonderful Life- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History-

Stephen Jay Gould

Year of Wonders

Geladine Brooks

Yes, We Have No Neutrons

A. K. Dewdney

The Dancing Bees, An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee

Karl Von Frisch