EDCI 518, Spring 2001 -- Practitioners of Science Bibliography



EDCI 518, Spring 2009 -- Practitioners of Science Bibliography

Alic, M. (1986). Hypatia's heritage: A history of women in science from antiquity throughout the nineteenth century. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. (general)

Altschuler, D. R. (2002). Children of the stars: Our origin, evolution, and destiny. New York: Cambridge University Press. (earth/space science)

Alvarez, W. (1997). T. rex and the crater of doom. Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press (paleontology)

Anton, T. (2000). Bold science: Seven scientists who are changing our world. NY: W. H. Freeman & Co. (general)

Bakker, R. T. (1986). The dinosaur heresies: New theories unlocking the mystery of the dinosaurs and their extinction. New York: Morrow. (paleontology)

Ball, P. (2005). Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry. Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry. (chemistry)

Bodanis, D. (2000). E=mc2: A biography of the world’s most famous equation. New York: Berkley Books. (physics)

Boorstin, D. J. (1983). The discoverers. NY: Random House. (general)

Bortz, F. (2005). Beyond Jupiter: The Story of Planetary Astronomer Heidi Hammel. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. (astronomy)

Bryan, D. (1996). Einstein: A life. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (physics)

Bryson, B. (2003). A short history of nearly everything. Broadway Books. (general)

Carson, R. (1964). Silent spring. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications. (environmental science)

Cheney, M. (2001). Tesla, man out of time. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (physics)

Collins, H. M. (1985). Changing order: Replication and induction in scientific practice. Beverly Hills: Sage. (general)

Crump, M. (2000). In search of the golden frog. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (herpetology)

Cullen, K. E. (2006). Physics: the people behind the science. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. (physics)

Darwin, C. (1962). The voyage of the Beagle. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. (natural history)

De Kruif, P. (1926). Microbe hunters. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. (microbiology)

DiCanzio, A. (1997). Galileo: His science and his significance for the future of man. Dover, NH: ADASI Publishing Co. (physics/astonomy)

Donovan, A., Laudan, L., & Laudan, R. (1985). Scrutinizing science: Empirical studies of scientific change. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (immunology)

Dyson, F. (1979). Disturbing the universe. New York: Harper and Row. (physics)

Einstein, A. (1990). Out of my later years. NY: Quality Paperback Books. (Original work published in 1956).

Einstein, A. (1990). The world as I see it. NY: Quality Paperback Books. (Trans.)

Emsley, J. (2000). The 13th element : the sordid tale of murder, fire, and phosphorus. NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (chemistry)

Ferris, T. (1988). Coming of age in the Milky Way. NY: William Morrow. (astronomy)

Feyerabend, P. (1995). Killing time: The autobiography of Paul Feyerabend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (philosophy)

Feynman, R. P. (1985). "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a curious character. NY: Norton. (physics)

Feynman, R. P. (1988). "What do you care what other people think?" Further adventures of a curious character. NY: Norton. (physics)

Fisher, A., & Margolis, J. (2002). Unlocking the clubhouse: Women in computing. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (computer science)

Fossey, D. (1983). Gorillas in the mist. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. (primatology)

Gadamer, H. G. (1996). Reason in the age of science (F.G. Lawrence, Trans.). Cambridge: MIT Press. (philosophy)

Garfield, S. (2000). Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (chemistry)

Garwin, L & Lincoln, T. (2003). A Century of Nature: Twenty – One Discoveries that

Changed Science and the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (general science)

Gawande, A. (2002). Complications: A surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science. NY: Metropolitan Books. (medicine)

Goertzel, T. & Goertzel, B. (1995). Linus Pauling: A life in science and politics. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. (physics)

Goodall, J. (with Berman, P.). (1999). Reason for hope: A spiritual journey. New York: Warner Books. (primatology)

Goodfield, J. (1977). Playing God : genetic engineering and the manipulation of life. New York : Random House. (life science)

Goodfield, J. (1981). An imagined world: A story of scientific discovery. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. (chemistry, physics, geology)

Gornick, V. (1983). Women in science: Portraits from a world in transition. NY: Simon & Schuster. (general)

Gould, S. J. (1987). Time’s arrow, time’s cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (geology)

Hawking, S. (1993). Black holes and baby universes, and other essays. New York: Bantam. (physics)

Hawking, S. (2002). The theory of everything: The origin and fate of the universe. Beverly Hills, CA: New Millenium Press. (physics)

Hawking, S. W. (2001). The universe in a nutshell. New York: Bantam. (physics)

Johnson, G. (2005). Miss Leavitt’s stars: the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe. New York: W.W. Norton. (astronomy)

Jordan, Dianne. (2006). Sisters in Science: Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and their Passions for Science. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. (science & culture)

Keller, E. F. (1983). A feeling for the organism: The life and work of Barbara McClintock. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. (genetics)

Knorr-Cetina, K. D. (1982). The manufacturing of scientific knowledge. Oxford: Pergamon Press. (sociology)

Latour, B. (1988). The pasteurization of France. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (microbiology)

Latour, B. (1987). Science in action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (sociology)

Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1979). Laboratory life: The social construction of scientific facts. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. (sociology)

Lear, L. (1997). Rachel Carson: Witness for nature. New York: Henry Holt. (natural science)

Lerner, A. B. (1973). Einstein and Newton: A comparison of the two greatest scientists. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company. (physics)

Long, J. R. (1990). Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and naturalist. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society. (natural science)

Lowman, M. D. (1999). Life in the treetops: Adventures of a woman in field biology. New Haven: Yale University Press. (field biology)

Lynch, M. (1985). Art and artifact in laboratory science: A study of shop work and shop talk in a research laboratory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (sociology)

Manning, K. R. (1983). Black Apollo of science: The life of Ernest Everett Just. New York: Oxford University Press. (biology)

Mayr, E. (1982). The growth of biological thought: Diversity, evolution, and inheritance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (biology)

McCarty, M. (1985). The transforming principle: Discovering that genes are made of DNA. NY: Norton. (molecular biology)

Medawar, P. B. (1990). The threat and the glory. NY: HarperCollins. (Original work published in 1959). (general)

Mitroff, I. (1974). The subjective side of science: A philosophical inquiry into the psychology of the Apollo moon scientists. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (earth/space science)

Norman, D. A. (1988). The psychology of everyday things. New York: Basic Books. (technology)

Nothdurft, W. E. (2002). The lost dinosaurs of Egypt. New York: Random House. (paleontology)

Novacek, M. (1996). Dinosaurs of the flaming cliffs. New York: Doubleday. (paleontology)

Pert, C. B. (1997). Molecules of emotion. New York: Scribner. (neuroscience)

Preston, R. (2002). The demon in the freezer. New York: Random House Publishing Group. (epidemiology)

Raeburn, P. (1996). The last harvest : the genetic gamble that threatens to destroy American agriculture. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Rhodes, R. (1986). The making of the atomic bomb. NY: Simon & Schuster. (physics)

Rose, S. (1992). The making of memory: From molecules to mind. NY: Doubleday. (molecular biology)

Sayer, A. (1975). Rosalind Franklin and DNA. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (biochemistry)

Shactman, T. (1999). Absolute zero and the conquest of cold. Boston: Mariner Books. (cryogenics)

Sobel, D. (1995). Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time. NY: Walker. (earth science)

Thomas, L. (1975). The lives of a cell: notes of a biology watcher. Toronto ; New York ; London : Bantam Books, Inc. (biology)

Thomas, L. (1983). The youngest science: Notes of a medicine-watcher. NY: Viking Press. (medicine)

Vermeij, G. (1997). Privileged hands: A remarkable scientific life. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. (evolutionary biology)

Watson, J. D. (1968). The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. NY: Atheneum. (biochemistry)

Weinberg, S. (2001). Facing up: Science and its cultural adversaries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (sociology)

Winchester, S. (2001). The Map That Changed the World. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. (geology)

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