Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection growth pleasure.
Every year for a final garland of years I’ve been joining to and posting about all a “year’s best sciencey books†lists that seem in several media outlets and resplendent a bit of light on a best of a year.
All a prior 2012 lists are here.
This post includes a following: Cocktail Party Physics Baker’s Dozen: Sampling a Best Science Books of 2012.
- The Particle during a End of a Universe by Sean M. Carroll
- A Man of Misonceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and a Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner
- The Signal and a Noise by Nate Silver
- The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
- Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks and a Hidden Powers of a Mind by Alex Stone
- To The Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes by Francis Slakey
- Trinity: A Graphic History of a First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
- Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True by Richard Dawkins
- Spillover: Animal Infections and a Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
- Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of a Digital Universe by George Dyson
- God’s Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to a Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
- Before a Lights Go Out: Conquering a Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us by Maggie Koerth-Baker
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