Best Sellers in History of Science
-- Library Journal, 09/24/2009
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1) Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Morton, Oliver
HarperCollins
2008. ISBN 0007163649 [9780007163649]. $28.95
2) Galileo Goes to Jail: And Other Myths About Science and Religion
Numbers, Ronald L.
Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674033272 [9780674033276]. $27.95
3) Sand: The Never-Ending Story
Welland, Michael
University of California Press
2009. ISBN 0520254376 [9780520254374]. $24.95
4) Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
Nicholls, Steve
University of Chicago Press
2009. ISBN 0226583406 [9780226583402]. $30
5) Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Seife, Charles
Viking
2008. ISBN 0670020338 [9780670020331]. $25.95
6) American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States
Engle, Jonathan
Gotham: Penguin Group (USA)
2008. ISBN 1592403808 [9781592403806]. $27.50
7) What Is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
Tubbs, Robert
Johns Hopkins University Press
2009. ISBN 0801890179 [9780801890178]. $60
8) The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
Johnson, Steven
Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA)
2008. ISBN 1594488525 [9781594488528]. $25.95
9) Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
Lynch, Michael
University of Chicago Press
2008. ISBN 0226498069 [9780226498065]. $37.50
10) Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry
Van Brummelen, Glen
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691129738 [9780691129730]. $39.50
11) Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life; An Agony in Eight Fits
Wilson, Robin J.
W.W. Norton
2008. ISBN 0393060276 [9780393060270]. $24.95
12) Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Zoellner, Tom
Viking
2009. ISBN 0670020648 [9780670020645]. $26.95
13) The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Holmes, Richard
Pantheon
2008. ISBN 0375422226 [9780375422225]. $40
14) The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
Gilder, Louisa
Knopf
2008. ISBN 1400044170 [9781400044177]. $27.50
15) Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
Freely, John
Knopf
2009. ISBN 030726534X [9780307265340]. $27.95
16) Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science
Weinert, Friedel
Wiley Blackwell
2009. ISBN 1405181842 [9781405181846]. $89.95
17) Darwin’s Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life
Brasier, Martin
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0199548978 [9780199548972]. $34.95
18) Is God a Mathematician?
Livio, Mario
Simon & Schuster
2009. ISBN 074329405X [9780743294058]. $26
19) Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Fara, Patricia
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 019922689X [9780199226894]. $34.95
20) Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man
Berra, Tim M.
Johns Hopkins University Press
2009. ISBN 0801891043 [9780801891045]. $19.95
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