Sci-202: Science of Everyday Things
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Book Report Bibliography

Author

Title

Location

Aczel, Amir

Pendulum : Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

925.3 F821a

Aczel, Amir

Entanglement : the Greatest Mystery in Physics

530.12 Ac99

Bodanis, David

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

530.11 B631

Bodanis, David

The secret house : 24 hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in which We Spend our Nights and Days

500 B631

Bodanis, David

Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity

Royuk

Boorstin, Daniel

The Discoverers  (only read Books I and III)

909 B644

Burreson, Jay
Le Couteur, Penny

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

540 L497

Carlson, Richard

Science & Christianity : Four Views

261.55 C197

Cathcart, Brian

The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Internation Race to Split the Atom

539.762 C284

Cobb, Cathy
Fetterolf, Monty

The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things

540 C633

Emsley, John

Vanity, Vitality, and Virility: The Science behind the Products You Love to Buy

543 Em84

Emsley, John

The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus

546.712 Em84

Feynman, Richard

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : Adventures of a Curious Character

925.3 F438

Flatow, Ira

They All Laughed... From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives

609 F616

Gardner, Martin

Science- Good, Bad and Bogus

500 G175

Gleick, James

Faster : The Acceleration of Just about Everything

529.7 G481

Gleick, James

Chaos : Making a New Science

003 G481

Halpern, Paul

What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe

500 H163

Hawking Stephen

A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes

523.1 H314

Hofstadter, Douglas

Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid *

510.1 H677

Huber, Peter

Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom

347.067 H862

Ingram, Jay

Science of Everyday Life

500 In4

Kakalios, James

The Physics of Superheroes

530.071 K123

Kuhn, Thomas

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions *

501 K955

Leslie-Pelecky, Diandra

The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed

796.7201 L565

Lindley, David

Where Does the Weirdness Go? : Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange, But Not as Strange as you Think

530.12 L644

Menuge, Angus

Reading God's World : The Scientific Vocation

261.55 M529

Muller, Richard

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

530 M916

Ord-Hume, Arthur

Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession

Royuk

Randi, James

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

Royuk

Raymo, Chet

Walking Zero : Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian

526.6 R213

Rothman, Tony

Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond

530 R745

Schwarcz, Joe

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life

540 Sch95t

Schwarcz, Joe

The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life

500 SCH95

Schwarcz, Joe

Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life

540 SCH95n

Schwarcz, Joe

Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life

540 Sch95

Segre, Gino

Faust in Copenhagen : A Struggle for the Soul of Physics *

530.0922 Se38f

Sobel, Dava

Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time

526.6209 So12

Steel, Duncan

Marking Time : The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar *

529.309 St32

Tucker, Tom

Bolt of Fate : Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax

923.273 F854t

Wolke, Robert

What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained

641.5 W834

Wynn, Charles

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Real Science Ends-- And Pseudoscience Begins

501 W992