Science (Grade 9-12)

Contributor's Form (list #66)

Fiction
• Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. (Radical environmentalist laments the destruction of American Desert Southwest.)
• Clarke, Arthur C. Deep Range.
• Cook, Robin. Brain.
• Cook, Robin. Coma.
• Cordy, Michael. The Miracle Strain: a genetic thriller.
• Crichton, Michael. Andromeda Strain.
• Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park.
• Crichton, Michael. Lost World.
• Crichton, Michael. Terminal Man.
• Lawrence, Jerome. Inherit the Wind. (The classic rendering of the famed Scopes "Monkey Trial")
• Preston, Richard. Cobra Event. (New (1997) fiction about rampant fatal disease similar to ebola)
• Stone, Irving. The Origin. (A fictionalized biography of Charles Darwin)
• Vonnegut, Kurt. Galapagos. (Weird take on what evolution theory will look like a million years from now)

   

• Non-Fiction
• Brennan, Richard P. Heisenberg Probably Slept Here : The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century.
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel. (On the development of civilizations based on available plants and animals (higher level reading))
• Dietrich, William. Northwest Passage. (An overview of the Columbia River, the effect of dams, fishing, native americans, farmers, etc.)
• Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. (Observations on nature in a series of beautifully written essays)
• Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character.
• Garrett, Laurie. Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. (The title says it all!)
• Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time.
• Hersey, John. Hiroshima. (Chronicles WWII survivors of the atomic bomb)
• Jackson, Donna M. and Charlie Fellenbaum (Illustrator). The Bone Detectives : How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead.
• Morris, Desmond. Naked Ape. (A zoologist examines the bonds between man and primates.)
• Preston, Richard. Hot Zone. (Nonfiction about ebola and an outbreak in a Virginia animal lab)
• Sacks, Oliver (M.D.). Island of the Colorblind.
• Sacks, Oliver (M.D.). Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other clinical tales.
• Selinger, Benjamin Klaus. Chemistry in the Marketplace. (Find out how much chemistry affects your daily life.)
• Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil. (One view of the future of the Internet)
• Wilson, Edward O. Diversity of Life. (How humans are destroying the diversity of life using the Brazilian rain forest as the living example)