Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health5 reviews David Michaels Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 How industry shanghaied science + Detailed expose with real solutions + This year most important book for environment-, health-, and safey people. + Industry gives us cargo-cult science + Decades of Deception             Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.)183 reviews Matt Ridley Harper Perennial, 2006 Great Read, Interesting Primer on Our Genes + Recomend it + The autobiography of a species "forced" into 23 chromosomes + So much more than genetics + serendipitous genes             The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature67 reviews Matt Ridley Harper Perennial, 2003 Superb Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + The Red Queen + Picking up where The Selfish Gene left off.... + The content is good but the quality of the book not + A fascinating analysis!             The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature39 reviews Steven Pinker Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 Excellent + Still a Good Read in Spite of its Flaws + Good but dense Take One: Steven Pinker is the premier purveyor of the parsed poesy of plain prose. No, that won't do. No matter how accurate that statement is, its excessive alliteration is bound to sound too cutesy for such an engaging read as his latest foray into the way mankind thinks and speaks. ...             The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author289 reviews Richard Dawkins Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Possibly my favorite read of all time + Dissecting "The Selfish Gene" + Life is a watch too complex to create Wow. When I finished this book, I did something I had never done before: I read the same book again. The second time through, I underlined things and scribbled thoughts on the inside covers and in the margins and wrote emails to friends about questions forming in my mind. After that second pass, ...             In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto191 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Just Eat Food. Real Food. + Ayurveda and Food equals Health & Longevity + enlightening + Blew Through This GREAT Book + Powerful Message             The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction65 reviews David Quammen Scribner, 1997 Plotting the roadmap to species extinction + Science Journalism? Yeh, it rules! + Fabulous "Islands are where species go to die." - David Quammen, author of THE SONG OF THE DODO This book is all about the birth, maturation, and real world applications of the science of island biogeography as it relates to the circumstances of species isolation and diversification and subsequent ...             The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science76 reviews Natalie Angier Mariner Books, 2008 A Fine Introduction To The Major Areas of Science + Thanks, Natalie.... Sometimes the best explainers of a topic are outsiders or laymen, rather than practitioners in the field. The author isn't a scientist so she can still see complex topics from the layman's viewpoint. This is, simply put, a great book. It covers not only the nuts and bolts of science (what is the ...             Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong (P.S.)4 reviews Marc Hauser Harper Perennial, 2007 Brilliant thought. In "Moral Minds", Marc Hauser makes a great case for the existence of an innate morality that exists within all humans, similar to Noam Chomsky's innate organ of language. Drawing on a vast field of research and history, the reader is led step by step to the understanding that morality is an ...             The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)99 reviews Jared M. Diamond Harper Perennial, 2006 Diamond is Brilliant + As Chimpy as You Wanna Be + This book is a Great Leap Forward A good read for anyone who's interested in anthropology or evolution. One of Diamond's main points in this book is that humans are not so different from our biological cousins, the apes. In fact, he says, we are more genetically close to chimpanzees than some species of orangutans are to other ...             Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World17 reviews Jessica Snyder Sachs Hill and Wang, 2008 Very Well-Written Science for the Average Reader + Living in a bacterial world + Fascinating + Easy reading for the microbe curious + If you have a body, read this book             Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors81 reviews Nicholas Wade Penguin, 2007 Simply the Best Survey of Human Prehistory for the Layman + Very Interesting Read. + Great Book + Ammo for conservatives + Engrossing             The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution40 reviews Sean B. Carroll W. W. Norton, 2006 The Fittest Record + Designed intelligently + Not easy reading, but very interesting + Destined to be a classic. + Black box no more             The Diversity of Life36 reviews Edward O. Wilson W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 A Good Introduction to the Tapestry Of Life + Great Book + The Diversity of Life + Second time round             Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo39 reviews Sean B. Carroll W. W. Norton, 2006 The "Butterfly Effect" in the genes + Sean Carroll has done it again + Interesting reading The best feature of this book is the fantastic sense of the complexity of the development of the organism from the genes. Sean shows with genius how the tiniest changes in a gene can lead to huge effects in the developing organism -- much like in Chaos theory (see the book "Chaos: making a new ...             Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex34 reviews Olivia Judson Holt Paperbacks, 2003 Sex Advice + Very amusing and informative + A fun look at evolutionary biology What do you get when you cross a biology textbook, a Dr. Ruth show, a Dear Abby column, and a "Far Side" cartoon? Well, the offspring might be a brilliantly original book named Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. This collection answers the desperate questions from species as varied as the ...             Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA15 reviews Daniel J. Fairbanks Prometheus Books, 2007 Reclaiming the reluctant + Very handy for defending evolution from the naysayers + How robust though fragile we are + Relics of Eden             Number: The Language of Science10 reviews Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur Plume, 2007 Review of the 4th revised edition (not the new 2007 edition) + Accessible yet comprehensive + Fantastic I am a mathematics teacher and have used this book as either a required reading or suggested supplement for a variety of courses, including math history for liberal arts students, number theory for mathematics majors, etc. The book (4th edition) is divided into Part I and Part II -- the latter ...             Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body78 reviews Neil Shubin Pantheon, 2008 Ayurveda, Science, and History + What a great book + There Really is Nothing (Entirely) New + Excellent primer on evolutionary processes             The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals463 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin, 2007 Amazing Read + The True Cost of Eating Your Lunch + Changed My World View + Eye-opener/mouth-closer