The Lighter side of Science : Vacation reading
3-D geometric origami : modular
polyhedra / Rona Gurkewitz and Bennett Arnstein. New York : Dover
Publications, 1995.
TT870 Gur (SC Gen Reading)
The art of Finding Nemo
/ by Mark Cotta Vaz ; forewords by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton.
NC1766 Uni.V 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
The age of science : what
scientists learned in the 20th century / Gerard Piel ; with illustrations
by Peter Bradford. 1st ed. New York : Basic Books, 2001.
Q125 Pie (SC Main Shelves)
Back from the brink : how
crises spur doctors to new discoveries about the brain / by Edward
J. Sylvester. New York : Dana Press, c2004.
RC350.7 Syl 2004 (SC Main Shelves)
Becoming human : evolution
and human uniqueness / Ian Tattersall. Oxford : Oxford University
Press, 2000.
GN281 Tat (CL Main Shelves)
The big jump into entrepreneurship
/ by Ramedshwari Ramachandra. Singapore : Horizon Books, 2003.
HD2915.12 Ram 2003 (SC Gen Reading, HL Main Shelves, CL Main Shelves)
Biology and revolution in
twentieth-century China / Laurence Schneider. Lanham, MD : Rowman
& Littlefield, 2003.
QH305.2 Chi.S 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
The cartoon guide to genetics
/ Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis. New York : Barnes & Noble , c1983.
1st ed.
QH436 Gon (SC Gen Reading)
The cartoon guide to statistics
/ Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith ; illustrations by Larry Gonick.
New York, NY : HarperPerennial , c1993.
QA276.12 Gon 1993 (SC RBR)
The cartoon history of time
: a beginner's guide to quantum physics, relativity, and the beginning
of the universe / Kate Charlesworth, John Gribbin. New York,
N.Y. : Plume , 1990.
QB209 Cha (SC Gen Reading)
Chalk up another one : the
best of Sidney Harris / foreword by Leon M. Lederman. Washington,
DC : AAAS Press , c1992.
NC1429 Har.H (SC Gen Reading)
Color space and its divisions
: color order from antiquity to the present / Rolf G. Kuehni.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2003.
QP483 Kue 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary
Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability / Colin Bruce. Cambridge,
Mass. : Perseus Books, c2001.
PS3552 B887C (SC Gen Reading)
"Colin Bruce re-creates the atmosphere of the
original Sherlock Holmes stories to shed light on an enduring truth
: Our reliance on common sense - and ignorance of mathematics - often
gets us into trouble. In these cautionary tales of greedy gamblers,
reckless businessmen, and ruthless con men, Sherlock Holmes uses his
deep understanding of probability, statistics, decision theory and
game theory to solve crimes and protect the innocent.But it's not
just the characters in these well-crafted stories that are deceived
by statistics or fall prey to gambling fallacies. We all suffer from
the results of poor decisions. In this illuminating collection, Bruce
entertains while teaching us to avoid similar blunders. From "The
Execution of Andrews" to "The Case of the Gambling Nobleman,"
there has never been a more exciting way to learn when to take calculated
risk and how to spot a scam. --BOOK JACKET
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Crocker Range National Park
Sabah : a scientific journey through Borneo / edited by Ghazally
Ismail, Lamria Ali. 2v. London : ASEAN Academic Press, 2001.
SB484.13 Cro 2001 (SC Main Shelves)
The curious naturalist : nature's
everyday mysteries / Sy Montgomery. Camden, ME : Down East Books,
c2000.
QH104 Mon (SC Main Shelves)
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Dancing naked in the mind field
/ Kary Mullis. New York : Pantheon Books, c1998.
Q173 Mul. (SC Main Shelves)
In Dancing Naked in the Mind Field , , Kary Mullis,
Nobel Prize-winning scientist in chemistry in 1993, writes with passion
and humor about a wide range of subjects: from the scientific method
to parapsychology, from poisonous spiders to the HIV virus and AIDS,
from global warming to astrology, from the O. J. Simpson trial to
how you can turn a light bulb on with your mind. A multidimensional
playland of ideas, this book challenges us to question the authority
of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily
original scientific mind."--BOOK JACKET.
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DNA : the secret of life
/ James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
QH437 Wat 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
Watson provides the general reader with clear explanations
of molecular processes and emerging technologies. He shows us how
DNA continues to alter our understanding of human origins, and of
our identities as groups and as individuals. And with the insight
of one who has remained close to every advance in research since the
double helix, he reveals how genetics has unleashed a wealth of possibilities
to alter the human condition - from genetically modified food to genetically
modified babies - and transformed itself from a domain of pure research
into one of big business as well. It is a sometimes topsy-turvy world
full of great minds and great egos, driven by ambitions to improve
the human condition as well as to improve investment portfolios, a
world vividly captured in these pages."--BOOK JACKET.
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DNA & genetic engineering
/ Robert Snedden. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2003.
QH442 Sne 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
Don't worry, it's safe to
eat : the true story of GM food, BSE, and Foot and Mouth / Andrew
Rowell. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2003.
TP248.65 Foo.R 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
The dot & the line : a
romance in lower mathematics / Norton Juster. New York : SeaStar
Books, 2001.
PS3560 J97D (SC Main Shelves)
A straight line falls in love with a dot and develops
his talents to form all kinds of geometric shapes in order to win
her affections.
The Double Helix : A Personal
Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA / James D. Watson.
New York : Touchstone Books, c2001.
QD435 Wat 2001 (SC Main Shelves)
Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation
/ Olivia Judson. London : Chatto & Windus, c2002
HQ25 Jud 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
E=mc² : a biography of the world's most
famous equation / David Bodanis. New York : Walker, 2000.
QC73.8 Con.B (SC & MD Main shelves)
Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of the
equation's letters and symbols, introducing the science and scientists
forming the backdrop to Einstein's discovery - from Ole Roemer's revelation
that the speed of light could be measured to Michael Faraday's pioneering
work on energy fields. Having demystified the equation, Bodanis explains
its science and brings it to life historically, making clear the astonishing
array of discoveries and consequences it made possible. It would prove
to be a beacon throughout the twentieth century, important to Ernest
Rutherford, who discovered the structure of the atom, Enrico Fermi,
who probed the nucleus, and Lise Meitner, who finally understood how
atoms could be split wide open. And it has come to inform our daily
lives, governing everything from the atomic bomb to a television's
cathode-ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings."--BOOK
JACKET.
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Einstein atomized : more science
cartoons / Sidney Harris. New York : Copernicus , c1996.
NC1429 Har.H (SC Main Shelves)
Einstein's brainchild : relativity
made relatively easy! / Barry Parker ; illustrated by Lori Scoffield-Beer.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2000.
QC16 Ein.Pk 2000 (SC Main Shelves)
"Physicist and popular science writer Barry
Parker speaks to the broadest possible audience in bringing Einstein's
theories to life. Given the fervent renewed appreciation for the contributions
Albert Einstein has bestowed on humanity, Parker thinks it only right
to dedicate a book to explaining in the clearest possible terms the
meaning and beauty of Einstein's theories."--BOOK JACKET.
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The elegant universe : superstrings,
hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / Brian
Greene. London : Jonathan Cape, 1999.
QC794.6 Str.Gr (CL Main Shelves)
E-mail.this.book! /
Cartoon Bank. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996.
NC1426 Ema (CL Main Shelves)
The ethics of genetic engineering
/ edited by Maureen Junker-Kenny and Lisa Sowle Cahill. London : SCM
Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1998.
QH438.7 Eth (SC Main Shelves)
Exploring the Quantum Classical
Frontier: Recent Advances in Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena /
Jonathan R. Friedman, Siyuan Han. New York : Nova Science, c2003.
QC174.12 Exp 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
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The fifth
miracle : the search for the origin of life / Paul Davies. London
: Penguin Books, c1998.
QH325 Dav 1998 (SC Gen Reading)
French cheeses / written
by Kazuko Musai and Tomoko Yamada ; foreword by Joël Robuchon ;
photography by Yohei Maruyama ; wines recommended by Robert and Isabelle
Vifian ; consultant, Randolph Hodgson. New York, N.Y. : DK Pub. ; Boston
: Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.
SF274 Fre.M (SC Main Shelves)
Genetically engineered food
: a self-defense guide for consumers / by Ronnie Cummins and
Ben Lilliston ; foreword by Andrew Kimbrell. New York ; Marlowe, c2000.
TP248.65 Foo.Cu (SC Main Shelves)
Genetic engineering : shaping
the material of life / Ellen Thro. New York : Facts on File ,
c1993.
QH442 Thr (SC Main Shelves)
"Defines and traces the history of genetic engineering and describes
its uses in medicine, agriculture, and business."
Global warming / Douglas
Long. New York : Facts on File, c2004.
QC981.8 Glo.Lo 2004 (SC Main Shelves)
Great physicists: the life
and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking / William
H. Cropper. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
QC15 Cro (SC Main Shelves)
Immortality : how science
is extending your life span- and changing the world / Ben Bova.
New York : Avon Books, c1998.
RA776.75 Bov 1998 (SC Main Shelves)
The importance of living
/ by Lin Yutang. Singapore : Cultured Lotus, 2001.
BJ1581 Lin 2001 (SC Gen Reading)
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Kepler's conjecture
: how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the
oldest math problems in the world / by George Szpiro. New York
: J. Wiley, c2003.
QA93 Szp 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
"The first and only popular account of one
of the greatest math problems of all time, Kepler's Conjecture examines
the attempts of many mathematical geniuses to prove this problem once
and for all - from Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to math greats Sir
Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss, from modern titans David Hilbert
and Buckminster Fuller to Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan,
who in 1998 submitted what seems to be the definitive proof."--BOOK
JACKET.
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Machine beauty : elegance
and the heart of technology/ David Gelernter. New York : Basic
Books, c1998.
QA76.9 Hum.G (SC Main Shelves)
Math charmers : tantalizing
tidbits for the mind / Alfred S. Posamentier ; foreword by Herbert
Hauptman, Nobel Laureate. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003. QA93
Pos 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
The misunderstood gene
/ Michael Morange Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
QH447 Mor 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
Mr. McMurtry's bubble hat--
and other great moments in American ingenuity / Mike Miller.
New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub., c1996.
T21 Mil (SC Main Shelves)
The nature and science of
bubbles / Jane Burton and Kim Taylor. Milwaukee, Wis. : Gareth
Stevens Pub., 1998.
QC183 But (SC Main Shelves)
The next big thing is really
small : how nanotechnology will change the future of your business
/ Jack Uldrich with Deb Newberry. New York : Crown Business, c2003.
T174.7 Uld 2003 (HL Main Shelves, SC Main Shelves)
The next fifty years : science
in the first half of the twenty-first century / edited by John
Brockman. New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
Q125 Nex 2002 (CL Main Shelves, SC Main Shelves)
No ordinary genius
: the illustrated Richard Feynman / edited by Christopher Sykes.
New York : Norton , c1994.
QC16 Fey (SC Main Shelves)
"Feynman's enthusiasm is wonderfully infectious.
It shines forth in these photographs and in his tales - how he learned
science from his father and the Encyclopedia Britannica, working at
Los Alamos on the first atomic bomb, reflecting on the marvels of
electromagnetism, unraveling the mysteries of liquid helium, probing
the causes of the Challenger space shuttle disaster, or simply trying
to find a way through Russian bureaucracy to visit the mysterious
central Asian country of Tannu Tuva. Feynman's story will fascinate
nonscientists who would like to share something of the joys of scientific
discovery, and it will delight those scientists who use Feynman's
work but who never had a chance to meet him."--BOOK JACKET.
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The northern lights
/ Lucy Jago. New York : Vintage Books, 2002. 1st Vintage Books ed.
QC805 Jag 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
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Our molecular
future : how nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence
will transform our world / Douglas Mulhall. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus
Books, 2002.
(SC Main Shelves)
A photographic tour of the
universe / Gabriele Vanin ; with a foreword by Richard M. West.
Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books , 1996.
QB68 Van (SC Main Shelves)
Quantum legacy : the discovery
that changed our universe / Barry Parker.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.
QC174.12 Pak 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
"Quantum Legacy is the story of the physicists
who made the quantum leaps that have so altered our world. And there
is no better person to describe the history of this quantum revolution
in terms that everyone can understand than award-winning science writer
and physicist Barry Parker."--BOOK JACKET.
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Redesigning humans : choosing
our children's genes / Gregory Stock. London : Profile Books,
2002.
QH431 Sto 2002. (SC Main Shelves)
"Forget worries about cloning people. In the
future, technological advances will bring far more meaningful and
controversial changes to our offspring." "As scientists
rapidly improve their ability to identify, screen and manipulate genes,
people will want to protect their future children from diseases, help
them live longer and even influence their looks and their abilities.
Stock, an expert on the implications of recent advances in reproductive
biology, clearly shows that neither governments nor religious groups
will be able to stop the coming trend of choosing an embryo's genes,
and that there is little point in even trying."--BOOK JACKET
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Rich dad, poor dad : what
the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class
do not / by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter. New York
: Warner Books, 1998.
HG179 Kiy 1998 (SC Gen Reading, HL Main Shelves, CL Main Shelves)
Rosalind Franklin : the dark
lady of DNA / Brenda Maddox. New York : HarperCollins, 2002.
QP26 Fra.M 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
"In March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College
London announced the departure of his obstructive colleague, Rosalind
Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist, Francis Crick."
"But it was too late. Franklin's unpublished data and crucial
photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the
Cambridge University lab. With the aid of these, plus their own knowledge,
Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the molecule that genes
are composed of - DNA, the secret of life. Five years later, after
more brilliant research under Bernal at Birkbeck College, at the age
of thirty-seven, Rosalind died of ovarian cancer. In 1962 Wilkins,
Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel prize for their elucidation
of DNA's structure. Franklin's part was forgotten until she was caricatured
in Watson's book The Double Helix." "In this biography Brenda
Maddox has been given unique access to Rosalind's personal correspondence
and has interviewed all the principal scientists involved, including
Crick, Watson and Wilkins."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Science times book of
genetics / edited by Nicholas Wade. New York, N.Y. : Lyons Press,
c1998.
QH437 Sci (SC Main Shelves)
The scientific endeavor :
a primer on scientific principles and practice / Jeffrey A. Lee.
San Francisco, Calif. : Benjamin Cummings, c2000.
Q162 Lee (SC Main Shelves)
Strange curves, counting
rabbits, and other mathematical explorations / Keith Ball.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.
QA93 Bal 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
"In Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other
Mathematical Explorations, Keith Ball draws on areas of mathematics
from probability theory, number theory, and geometry. He explores
a wide range of concepts, some more lighthearted, others central to
the development of the field and used daily by mathematicians, physicists,
and engineers." "Accessible to anyone with basic calculus,
this book is a treasure trove of ideas that will entertain, amuse,
and bemuse students, teachers, and math lovers of all ages."--BOOK
JACKET.
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They have
a word for it : a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words and phrases
/ Howard Rheingold. Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, 2000.
P305 Rhe 2000 (SC Main Shelves)
Top performance : how to develop
excellence in yourself and others / by Zig Ziglar with Jim Savage.
Selangor : Castle Books, c1986 (2001 printing)
HD38.2 Zig 1986 . (HL Main Shelves, SC Main Shelves)
Travels in four dimensions
: the enigmas of space and time / Robin Le Poidevin. Oxford ;
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
BD632 Lep 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
"Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience,
and yet they are also the most puzzling." "Robin Le Poidevin
provides a clear, witty, and stimulating guide through these and many
other puzzles and paradoxes. Drawing on a variety of examples from
science, history, and literature, he gives a vivid sense of the difficulties
raised by our ordinary ideas of space and time, and equips us to think
about these problems for ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.
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Troublesome words /
Bill Bryson. 3rd ed. London : Penguin Books, 2002.
PE1460 Bry 2002. (SC Gen Reading)
Understanding biotechnology / Aluízio
Borém, Frabrício R. Santos, David E. Bowen. Upper Saddle,
NJ : Prentice Hall, 2003.
TP248.215 Bor 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
"Understanding Biotechnology presents careful
and complete introductions to cloning, gene therapy, pharmacogenomics,
molecular markers, forensic DNA, bioremediation, and biodiversity,
as well as a full chapter on the risks of bioterrorism. It also includes
an extensive glossary and detailed references for further study."--BOOK
JACKET.
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Understanding cloning
/ from the editors of Scientific American ; compiled and with introductions
by Sandy Fritz ; foreword by William A. Haseltine. New York, NY : Warner
Books, c2002.
QH442.2 Und 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures
in probability / Bart K. Holland. Baltimore and London : The
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
QA273.15 Hol 2002 (SC Main Shelves)
"Our lives are governed by chance. But what,
exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistician and storyteller
Bart K. Holland takes us on a tour of the world of probability. Weaving
together tales from real life - from the spread of the bubonic plague
in medieval Europe or the number of Prussian cavalrymen kicked to
death by their horses, through IQ test results and deaths by voodoo
curse, to why you have to wait in line for rides at Disneyworld -
Holland captures the reader's imagination with surprising examples
of probability in action, everyday events that can profoundly affect
our lives but are controlled by just one number."--BOOK JACKET.
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Where stuff comes from : how
toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many others things come to be
as they are / Harvey Molotch. New York : Routledge, 2003.
TA148 Mol 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
Who invented the computer?
: the legal battle that changed computing history / Alice Rowe
Burks ; foreword by Douglas Hofstadter. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,
2003.
QA76.17 Bur 2003 (SC Main Shelves)
"Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major
figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine,
the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I,
conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944. But he also made
significant contributions to the development of applications for the
new machines and to the creation of a university curriculum for computer
science. This biography of Aiken, by a major historian of science
who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard, offers a clear and
often entertaining introduction to Aiken and his times."--BOOK
JACKET.
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Why science? / R. Stephen
White. Commack, NY : Nova Science, c1998.
Q175.5 Wht (SC Main Shelves)
"The book Why Science? is written for the millions
of science teachers, students and the public who want evidence for
their views. Society must make important choices in health and medicine,
the environment, energy sources, the courts and in risk and safety.
These issues and many other problems facing us require knowledge of
science for their solution. Polls show that nearly half of the US
population believes the myths, superstition and paranormal delivered
by TV and the press. Despite the great advances of science in the
20th century, pseudoscience and antiscience are still around - even
growing in some of the greatest universities and institutions in the
land."--BOOK JACKET.
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Why things break : understanding
the world by the way it comes apart / Eberhart, Mark. Mark E.
Eberhart. New York : Harmony Books, c2003.
TA409 Ebe 2003 (SC Main Shelves, CL Main Shelves))
The wizard of
quarks : a fantasy of particle physics / Robert Gilmore. New
York : Copernicus Books, c2001.
QC792.4 Gil (SC Main Shelves)
"In the tradition of his bestselling Alice
in Quantumland, The Wizard of Quarks takes L. Frank Baum's classic
tale of a little girl from Kansas and transforms it into a description
of the practically indescribable world of subatomic particles. Dorothy's
encounters with the Witch of Mass, the Witch of Charge, the Witch
of Color, and the Weak Witch will help readers grasp the maddeningly
elusive concepts that support the foundations of modern physics."--BOOK
JACKET
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