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John Dupuis遴选的2016年最佳科学图书

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   John Dupuis是美国的一位科学图书馆员。每年,他根据自己的阅读判断和媒体报道,推出各种最佳科学图书榜单,比如,基于科普杂志《大众机械》书评的最佳科学图书、基于《纽约时报》书评的最佳科学图书、基于《华盛顿邮报》书评的最佳科学图书,等等。下面这个清单是他基于亚马逊书城相关信息提出的2016年最佳科学图书榜单。他的“科学图书”是广义的,包括科学、技术、工程、自然、环境、科技政策、科学史与科学哲学、极客文化等。

·        Lab Girl (实验室女孩)by Hope Jahren,该书我介绍过,见http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1557-970411.html。

·        Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez,

·        The Industries of the Future(未来的产业) by Alec Ross,该书我也介绍过,见http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1557-988503.html。

·        The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case

·        The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb

·        The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams

·        Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson

·        The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben and Tim Flannery

·        Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michael A. Strauss,我没有介绍过此书,但介绍过书的作者----科普明星泰森,见http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1557-811002.html。

·        The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

·        Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

·        Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli(史晓雷博主告知,该书已有中译本,《七堂极简物理课》,湖南科学技术出版社,2016年5月出版)

·        Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

·        The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll

·        Now: The Physics of Time by Richard A. Muller

·        Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

·        Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Marsby Nathalia Holt

·        What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe

·        How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight by Julian Guthrie and Richard Branson

·        Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

·        Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson,美国国家科学院院士、著名社会生物学家爱德华. 威尔逊的著作,肯定值得关注。

·        The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir by Thomas Dolby

·        Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox

·        This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe

·        Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin

·        Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets by Tyler Nordgren

·        Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah J. Hardt



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