So far, I’ve reviewed over 100 books on Scienceblogs.com; Click here to read them all, though it might take a little time. If you are just interested in the bird-related book reviews, those would be here.
Here are links to selected reviews:
Fossils and Palaeontology
- The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution and Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
- When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
- Triassic Life on Land
- Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds
Evolution, Biology, and Behavioral Biology
- The Science of Kissing
- Your Inner Fish
- The Curious World of Bugs: The Bugman’s Guide to the Mysterious and Remarkable Lives of Things That Crawl
- Galapagos Diary
- The Paleolithic Prescription: A program of diet and exercise and a design for living
- What is Life? (Intro College and AP Biology Text)
- Mothers and Others
- No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations
- Kraken: The curious exciting and slightly disturbing science of squid
Creationism
- Evolution vs. Creationism (Genie Scott of the NCSE)
- Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
- Icons of Evolution
- The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood
Physical Science
- The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World
- Why the Wind Blows: A History of Weather and Global Warming
- Newton and the Counterfeiter:The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
- Black Bodies and Quantum Cats
- Unmasking Europa
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Birds, Bird and Mammal Field Guides, and Birdwatching
- The Crossley ID Guide (Eastern)
- Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding
- Nightjars of the World: Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird and Owlet-nighthars.
- Petrels, Albatrosses and Storm Petrels of North America
- The Young Birder’s Guide
- Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds
- Hawks at a Distance: Identification of migrant raptors
- Avian Architecture: How birds design, engineer, and build
- Bird and Mammal Guides for Africa
- The Atlas of Birds
- The Birds of New Jersey
- Birds of North America and Greenland
- Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitors guide
- The Birder’s Handbook
- Bird Migration and Global Change
- How Birds Migrate
- On the Wing: American Birds in Migration
- Music of the Birds Volume I (iBook)
- Wildlife of Southern Africa
- Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East
- Carnivores of the World
Science Policy and Denialism
- Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America (Shawn Otto)
- Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us (Maggie Koerth Baker)
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars (Michael Mann)
- http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/07/the-inquisition-of-climate-sci/
- Storm World (Chris Mooney)
- Unscientific America (Mooney and Kirshenbaum)
- Storms of my Grandchildren
- Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Computers and Software, mainly related to Linux
- The Art of Assembly Language
- The Linux Command Line: A complete introduction
- Learning the Bash Shell
- The Land of Lisp
Learning and Doing Science and Math at Home
- Idiots Guide to Pre-Algebra
- The Manga Guide to Relativity
- 100 Amazing Experiments
- Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture
- Head First Physics
Politics
Other
