{"id":529,"date":"2019-10-11T20:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2019-10-11T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:53:37","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/topics\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Earth,<\/p>\n

Environmental Science
\n<\/strong>Non-Fiction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau <\/em><\/strong>by Bill McKibben<\/p>\n

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters <\/em><\/strong>by Rose George<\/p>\n

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition<\/em><\/strong> by William Kamkwamba \u2013<\/p>\n

The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at at Time <\/em><\/strong>by Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas Kostigen<\/p>\n

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Humanity <\/em><\/strong>by Tim Flannery<\/p>\n

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring <\/em><\/strong>by Richard Preston<\/p>\n

World Without Fish <\/em><\/strong>by Mark Krulansky<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Exodus <\/em><\/strong>by Julie Bertagna<\/p>\n

Flush <\/em><\/strong>by Carl Hiaasen<\/p>\n

Hoot\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>by Carl Hiaasen<\/p>\n

Life As We Knew It<\/em><\/strong> by Susan Beth Pfeffer<\/p>\n

Oryx and Crake <\/em><\/strong>by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n

Ship Breaker<\/em><\/strong> by Paolo Bacigalupi<\/p>\n

The Gardener<\/em><\/strong> by S. A. Bodeen<\/p>\n

Under the Weather: Stories about Climate Change <\/em><\/strong>edited by Tony Bradman<\/p>\n

Ocean Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non-Fiction<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Devil\u2019s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival among America\u2019s Great White Sharks <\/em><\/strong>by Susan Casey<\/p>\n

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History <\/em><\/strong>by Stephen Jay Gould<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Deep Blue <\/em><\/strong>by Jennifer Donnelly<\/p>\n

Of Poseidon <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Anna Banks<\/p>\n

Wake<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Amanda Hocking<\/p>\n

The Old Man and the Sea <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n

Jaws <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Peter Benchley<\/p>\n

Sphere<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 –Michael Crichton<\/p>\n

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Jules Verne<\/p>\n

Genetics \/ Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non-Fiction <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Jim Murphy<\/p>\n

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science<\/em><\/strong> by John Fleischman<\/p>\n

Spillover<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 David Quammen<\/p>\n

The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are <\/em><\/strong>by Gina Smith<\/p>\n

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>by Rebecca Skloot\u2013<\/p>\n

Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Alison Blank, Jim Murphy<\/p>\n

The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing <\/em><\/strong>by Suzanne Jurmain<\/p>\n

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down <\/em><\/strong>by Anne Fadiman<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Across the Universe <\/em><\/strong>by Beth Revis<\/p>\n

Beggars in Spain <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Nancy Kress<\/p>\n

House<\/em><\/strong> of the Scorpion<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Nancy Farmer<\/p>\n

Leviathan<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Scott Westerfield<\/p>\n

Never Let You Go <\/em><\/strong>by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/p>\n

Origin<\/em><\/strong> by Jessica Khoury<\/p>\n

Placebo Junkies <\/em><\/strong>by JC Carleson<\/p>\n

Shade\u2019s Children<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Garth Nix<\/p>\n

The Adoration of Jenna Fox<\/em><\/strong> by Mary Pearson<\/p>\n

The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New <\/em><\/strong>York by Deborah Blum<\/p>\n

The Program <\/em><\/strong>by Suzanne Young<\/p>\n

Unwind<\/em><\/strong> by Neal Shusterman<\/p>\n

Outer Space<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non-Fiction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Above Earth With No Way Home <\/em><\/strong>By Chris Jones<\/p>\n

Almost Astronauts: Women Who Dared to Dream <\/em><\/strong>by Tanya Lee Stone<\/p>\n

Beyond: A Solar System Voyage <\/em><\/strong>by Michael Benson<\/p>\n

Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon <\/em><\/strong>by<\/p>\n

By Andrew Chaikin, Alan Bean (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Out of Orbit <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Chris Jones<\/p>\n

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon <\/em><\/strong>by Catherine Thimmesh<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

172 Hours on the Moon<\/em><\/strong> by Johan Harstad<\/p>\n

About a Girl<\/em><\/strong> by Sarah McCarry<\/p>\n

Across the Universe<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Beth Revis<\/p>\n

Avalon<\/em><\/strong> by Mindee Arnett<\/p>\n

Beyond Our Stars<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Marie Langager<\/p>\n

Black Hole Sun<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 David Macinnis Gill<\/p>\n

Ender\u2019s Game<\/em><\/strong> by Orson Scott Card<\/p>\n

Feed<\/em><\/strong> by M.T. Anderson<\/p>\n

For Darkness Shows the Stars<\/em><\/strong> by Diana Peterfreund<\/p>\n

Mirror in the Sky<\/em><\/strong> by Aditi Khorana<\/p>\n

Packing for Mars: The Curious Life of Science in the Void <\/em><\/strong>by Mary Roach<\/p>\n

Salvage<\/em><\/strong> by Alexandra Duncan<\/p>\n

See You in the Cosmos<\/em><\/strong> by Jack Cheng<\/p>\n

Starflight<\/em><\/strong> by Melissa Landers<\/p>\n

Starglass<\/em><\/strong> by Phoebe North<\/p>\n

The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Douglas Adams<\/p>\n

The 5th<\/sup> Wave<\/em><\/strong> by Rick Yancey<\/p>\n

Tin Star<\/em><\/strong> by Cecil Castellucci<\/p>\n

General Science \/ the Science Community (All Non-Fiction)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible <\/em><\/strong>by Stephen Hawking<\/p>\n

A Short History of Nearly Everything <\/em><\/strong>by Bill Bryson<\/p>\n

Bad Science: Hacks, Quacks, and Big Pharma Flacks<\/em><\/strong> by Ben Goldacre<\/p>\n

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein\u2014Colossal Mistakes from Great Scientists that Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe<\/em><\/strong> by Mario Livio<\/p>\n

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith <\/em><\/strong>by Deborah Heiligman<\/p>\n

E=mc2<\/em><\/strong>: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis<\/p>\n

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming<\/em><\/strong> by Mike Brown<\/p>\n

Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science\u2014From the Babylonians to the<\/em><\/strong> Maya by Dick Teresi<\/p>\n

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers <\/em><\/strong>By Mary Roach<\/p>\n

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0by Sam Kean<\/p>\n

The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way <\/em><\/strong>by Joy Hakim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environmental Science Non-Fiction American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau by Bill McKibben The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters by Rose George The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition by William Kamkwamba … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8581,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}