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How the World Works: Books about Science
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Barnard, Bryn
Dangerous Planet: natural Disasters that Changed History
Find out how occurences of natural disasters such as meteor impacts, landslides, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes
changed the course of human history.
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Boese, Alex
Museum of Hoaxes: a Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the
Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium
You'll read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; you'll
be astounded at the imposters, pretenders, carnies, and tricksters of the twentieth.
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Brown, Augustus
Why Do Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths About Animals
Gathered here are hundreds of the funniest, most fascinating, and just plain bizarre things that have been
discovered about the non-human world.
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McClafferty, Carla Killough
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known as Marie Curie, the co-discover of radium and the first woman awarded the Nobel prize.
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Murphy, Jim
An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear.
This killer has a name -- yellow fever -- but everything else about it is a mystery.
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Newquist, H.P.
The Great Brain Book: an Inside Look at the Inside of Your Head
Newquist peels back the layers of the brain to explore what it's made of, how it works, and how to make your
brain work for you.
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Padel, Ruth
Tigers in Red Weather: a Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
Searching for the roots and reasons for the near extinction of tigers is more complicated than the author
ever imagines as she travels the Asian continent.
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Sloan, Christopher
Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons, and Rituals
This book examines the customs and practices related to burial that have existed from ancient times to the present.
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Sullivan, Robert
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat stories, Sullivan gets to
know not just the beast but its friends and foes.
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Sussman, Art
Dr. Art's Guide to Science: Connecting Atoms, Galaxies, and Everything In Between
Venture beyond the Milky Way with Dr. Art to discover the vastness of space, the depths of time, and how ancient explosions
in our galaxy generated stardust that infuses our planet -- and our bodies -- to this day.
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List created by Connie, April 2007
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