Category:Popular Science

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• Newest Popular Science Reviews
• List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary
• Top Ten Books About Language
• Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People
• Top Ten Books For The Defenders Of Reason
• Top Ten Green Books for Eco-Warriors
• Top Ten Non-Fiction Books To Make You Think

1

• 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D Barrow
• 13 Things That Don't Make Sense by Michael Brooks
• 17 Equations That Changed The World by Ian Stewart

2

• 2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce

3

• 30-Second Theories by Paul Parsons

A

• Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination by Jeff Shantz
• Alex's Adventures In Numberland by Alex Bellos
• Animals by Keith Laidler
• At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild by John Lister-Kaye
• The Average Life of the Average Person by Tadg Farrington

B

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: an introduction to birdsong by Simon Barnes
• The Black Book of Modern Myths: True Stories of the Unexplained by Alasdair Wickham
• The Book of Deadly Animals by Gordon Grice
• The Book Of Universes by John D Barrow
• Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith
• Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy Is Wrong by Martin Lindstrom

C

• The Canon by Natalie Angier
• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
• The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
• Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science by John D Barrow

D

• Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
• Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
• Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White
• The Design of Future Things by Donald Norman
• A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
• Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders
• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
• Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare
• Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions by John Farndon
• Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else by Jeffrey Masson
• Don't Swallow Your Gum by Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman
• Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon by P D Smith
• Dot-Dash To Dot.Com by Andrew Wheen
• Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones by Robert Rowland Smith
• Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L Locke

E

• Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by Evalyn Gates
• Escape from Bubbleworld by Keith Skene
• The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth

F

• Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers by Stephanie Pain
• A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits by Carol and Dinah Mack
• The Food We Eat by Joanna Blythman
• Free Radicals by Michael Brooks
• From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries by Chris Waring

F cont.

• From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll

G

• Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Garden Birds and Wildlife by Mike Toms and Paul Sterry
• Geek Wisdom by Stephen H Segal
• The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos by Michael D Lemonick
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam
• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

H

• The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
• The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski by Anthony James
• The Hidden Landscape by Richard Fortey
• Higgs Force by Nicholas Mee
• How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal
• How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
• How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser
• How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare
• How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare
• How to Save the World with Salad Dressing by Thomas Byrne and Tom Cassidy

I

• I Drink Therefore I Am by Roger Scruton
• If Houses Why Not Mouses? by Damian O'Brien
• The Impulse Factor: Why Some Of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All by Nick Tasler
• In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou with Nicholas Truong
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R Kandel
• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
• Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland

L

• The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker
• Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
• Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the World by Stefan Klein
• Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
• The Lotus Quest by Mark Griffiths

M

• Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart
• MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond) by Daniel J Barrett
• Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain by Martin Cohen
• The Moon and Madness by Niall McCrae
• The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We Buy by Geoffrey Miller

N

• Nelson, Hitler and Diana by Richard D Ryder
• Not Exactly - In Praise Of Vagueness by Kees van Deemter
• Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200 by Derrick Niederman

O

• On Balance by Adam Phillips
• On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)
• An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
• The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins

P

• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space by Mary Roach
• Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
• Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things by Steven Connor
• Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough
• The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favourite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A Practical Guide to Research Methods by Catherine Dawson
• Predators by Steve Backshall
• Prediction: How to See and Shape the Future with Game Theory by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

P cont.

• Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart
• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
• Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Q

• Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You by Marcus Chown
• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
• Queen of the Sun by Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)

R

• Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
• Reversing Global Warming For Profit by Bill Butterworth
• Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner
• The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee

S

• Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara
• Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and Stuff by Glenn Murphy
• Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Living Things Need to Thrive and Survive by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman
• The Secrets of Happiness by Richard Schoch
• Selected: Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it matters by Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja
• Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
• Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure by Paul Martin
• Shapes by Philip Ball
• Should we popularise mathematics? If so, how? by Ian Stewart
• The Shrink and The Sage by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena by Brian Dunning
• Sleights of Mind by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
• Solar System by Marcus Chown
• Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling by David Crystal
• The Story Of English In 100 Words by David Crystal
• Supercontinent by Ted Nield
• Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals by Richard Conniff

T

• Taking the Medicine by Druin Burch
• A Teaspoon and an Open Mind by Michael White
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
• They've Got Your Number by Stephen Baker
• Time (Big Ideas) by Eva Hoffman

W

• The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal by Henry Nicholls
• We Need To Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown
• What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen by Robert L Wolke and Marlene Parrish
• Why Are Orangutans Orange? by Mick O'Hare
• Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare
• Why Do People Get Ill?: Exploring the Mind-body Connection by Darian Leader and David Corfield
• Why Does E Equal mc Squared? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
• Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
• Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare
• Why Evolution is True by Jerry A Coyne
• Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy M Meston and David Buss
• Why? by Joel Levy
• Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? by Mick O'Hare

Y

• You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers by Gary Hayden
• You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith
• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin