科学推荐书单

    1   Recommended Books (Fall Term, 2012) The following books are not required. They are recommended for students who wish to go beyond the formal assignments. All are accessible for a non-specialist audience. Library locations and call numbers are supplied, along with Amazon.com prices as of September, 2012. General: Bryson, B. (2003). A short history of nearly everything. New York: Broadway Books (544 pp.). [Mathematics: Q162 .B88 2003][amazon.com: $17.83] Chalmers, A. F. (1999). What is this thing called science? Indianapolis: Hackett, 3rd edition (266 pp.) [Barnard and Butler: Q175 .C446 1999][amazon.com: $16.98] Firestein, S. (2012). Ignorance. How it drives science. New York: Oxford University Press (195 pp.). [Science and Engineering: Q175.32.K45 F57 2012][ amazon.com: $13.28] Hazen, R. M., & Trefil, J. S. (2009). Science matters: Achieving scientific literacy. New York: Anchor Books (360 pp.). [Butler: Q162 .H36 2009][amazon.com: $10.10] Brain and Behavior (Don Hood): O’Shea, M. (2005). The brain: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press (136 pp.). [Science and Engineering: QP376 .O84 2005][amazon.com: $8.99] Ramachandran, V. S., & Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain. New York: HarperCollins Publ. Inc. (328 pp.). [Barnard and Mathematics: RC351 .R24 1998][amazon.com: $10.88] Physics (Brian Greene): Feynman, R. (1985). “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a curious character. New York: W.W. Norton and Company (352 pp.). [Barnard, Butler and Mathematics: QC16.F49 A37 1985][amazon.com: $10.85] Greene, B. (1999). The elegant universe: Superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory. New York: Vintage Books (448 pp.). [Butler, Mathematics, and Science and Engineering: QC794.6.S85 G75 1999] [amazon.com: $10.61] Greene, B. (2004). The fabric of the cosmos: Space, time and the texture of reality. New York: A. A. Knopf (569 pp.). [Ebooks] Greene, B. (2011). The hidden reality: Parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos. New York: Vintage Books (443 pp.). [Science and Engineering: QC6 .G6885 2011] [amazon.com: $11.53]     2   Chemistry (Virginia Cornish): Mukherjee, S. (2011). The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer. New York: Scribner (573 pp.). [Journalism: RC275 .M85 2011b][ amazon.com: $12.24] Nicolaou, K. C., & Montagnon, T. (2008). Molecules that changed the world. Weinheim: Wiley- VCH (366 pp.). [Barnard, and Science & Engineering: QD262 .N53 2008g] [amazon.com: $31.50] Ptashne, M. (2004). A genetic switch. Phage lambda revisited. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, third edition (154 pp.). [Science & Engineering: QR342 .P83 2004] [amazon.com: $87.70] Earth science (Paul Olsen): Alley, R. B. (2000). The two-mile time machine: Ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (229 pp.). [Mathematics: QC884 .A55 2000][amazon.com: $16.64] Alvarez, W. (1997). T. rex and the crater of doom. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (185 pp.). [Geology and Mathematics: QE506 .A48 1997][amazon.com: $9.72] Archer, D., & Rahmstorf, S. (2010). The climate crisis: An introductory guide to climate change. New York: Cambridge University Press (249 pp.). [Geology: QC903 .A73 2010][amazon.com: $23.98]