
These are books I am currently reading, have purchased for future reading or have read since September 2008. I listed my reading since retirement and prior to September 2008 in Reading in retirement.
Dan Agin: Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Scott Atran: In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition Series)
John D. Barrow: The Constants of Nature
Michael Burleigh: Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror
David P. Chandler: Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot
Paul Davies: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
Richard Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.
Richard P Feynman: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Barbara Goldsmith: Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) (Great Discoveries)
Marray Gell-Mann: The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Stephen J Gould: Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes
Stephen Jay Gould: Eight Little Piggies
A. C. Grayling: The Britannica Guide to the Ideas That Made the Modern World (Britannica Guides)
Brian Greene: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Jonathan Haidt: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Marc Hauser: Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Walter Isaacson: Einstein: His Life and Universe
Steve Jones: Y Descent of Men: The Descent of Men
Stuart Kauffman: Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
Jim Al-Khalili: Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed
Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
George Levine: Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
David Lindley: Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
Ehsan Masood: Science and Islam: A History
Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley: Atoms, dinosaurs & DNA : 68 great New Zealand scientists
Robert Oerter: The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works
Roger Penrose: The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Phillip Plait: Death from the Skies!
Peter Pringle: The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
Rebecca Priestley: The Awa Book of New Zealand Science
Martin Rees: Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe
Gareth Renowden: Hot Topic: Global Warming and the Future of New Zealand
Matt Ridley: The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
Michael Shermer: Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
Peter Singer: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
Neil Shubin: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)
Christopher Thomas Scott: Stem Cell Now
Simon Siongh and Edzard Ernst: Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial
Lee Smolin: The Life of the Cosmos
Victor Stenger: Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness
William Taubman: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Charles Seife Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
Steven Weinberg: The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
Francis Wheen: How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Frank Wilczek: Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
Videos:
Allan Wilson : Evolutionary.
















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Scott Somerville // August 11, 2009 at 5:10 am
I can recommend “Noah’s Flood” by Ryan and Pitman ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684859203?ie=UTF8&redirect=true) and “The Seven Daughters of Eve” by Bryan Sykes at http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Daughters-Eve-Science-Ancestry/dp/0393020185. Both are good science, in my opinion.