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The books listed below are a selection of books from the different science disciplines. Some of the books are recent and give a glimpse of the latest research in a particular subject. Other books are historical and give insights into the context of a great discovery. The books on this list range from an easy read to those that are more challenging. Talk a minute and look over the list and see if you find a book that interests you.

Ecology
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Easy Reading
 
Evolution
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Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
Average
Fossils: The History of Life
by Richard Fortey
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by Richard Fortey
Average
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
Challenging
The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
Average
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection
by Charles Darwin
Average
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
by Richard Fortey
Average
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephe J Gould
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
 
Genetics
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Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA
by Brenda Maddox
Average
Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by Bryan Sykes
Average
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James Watson
Average
The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
by Robin Marantz Henig
Easy Reading
 
General Interest
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Galileo's Commandment: 2500 Years of Great Science Writing
by Edmund Blair Bolles
In The Wake of The Plague
by Norman F. Cantor
Average
The Birds of Costa Rica : A Field Guide
by Richard Garrigues, Robert Dean
 
History
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America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus
by Alvin Josephy
Average
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions
by Charles Gallenkamp
Average
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Average
Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Easy Reading
Over the Edge of the World : Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
by Laurence Bergreen
Average
Salt
by Mark Kurlansky
Average
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches
by Charles Darwin
Average
 
Physics
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A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Issacson
Pysics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
Surely You're Joking Mr. Fieynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Phillips Feynman
 
Chemistry
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A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table
by Michael D. Gordin
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny M LeCouteur
 



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