Top 10 Sci-Tech Books: 2008.
The top 10 science and technology books, the last 12 months, the issues at once earthy and the esoteric, the birds and the bees’ activity in the brain and the invention of the telephone and verve and know-how.
The Big need: the taboo world of human waste, and why it matters. George rose. 2008. Holt / Metropolitan, $ 26 (9780805082715).
The journalist George deals with the urgent health and environmental challenge, and the destruction of the health of human waste, into this unique and fascinating world-wide research.
In addition, the Zonules Tin: A fantastic journey through your brain. David Bainbridge. 2008. Harvard, $ 25.95 (0-674-02610-1).
Bainbridge used zonules Tin is a small strip, with which the eye lens Ciliary is, as the starting point is an instructive journey through the brain and neuroanatomical study.
Bonk: The Curious switch science and sex. Mary Roach. 2008. Norton, $ 24.95 (9789393064643).
Roach, a science writer whose humor and adventure, surveys the many sides of sex research in this wonderfully zippy yet truly enlightening study.
Farm Sanctuary: Changing hearts and minds about animals and food. Baur of genetic engineering. 2008. Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, $ 25 (0-7432-9158-1).
Baur presents breathtaking accused of factory farming and a series of revelations found in close observation of animals.
Fruitless Autumn: The collapse is a bee and the coming of the agricultural crisis. When Rowan Jacobsen. 2008. Bloomsbury, $ 25 (9781596915374).
Jacobsen and explicates the honey bee’s role in the agricultural fertility and documents in many respects, we are threatened with extinction this important pollinator.
Mirroring People: The new science of how we connect with others. Marco Iacoboni. 2008. Farrar, $ 25 (0-374-21017-9).
Neuroscientists Iacoboni enthusiastically explains mirror neurons and how they help people to emulate the qualities and abilities are in their species.
Parrot Who thought he was a dog. By Nancy Ellis-Bell. 2008. Harmony, $ 23 (9780307405944).
The blue and gold macaw lost a leg during his arrest, was wrong, and was angry, but when Ellis Bell brings him home, now beloved bird becomes a lively and instructive companion.
Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret. When Seth Shulman. 2008. Norton, $ 24.95 (9780393062069).
Shulman chronicles her discovery of an anomaly in the Alexander Graham Bell’s laboratory notes and sleuthing that uncloaked evidence that the inventor icon can be a discoveries pilfered another man.
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music is a sea of sound. David Rothenberg. 2008. Basic, $ 27.50 (9780465071289).
Rothenberg will continue the investigation between the music started Why birds sing (2005) in this multi-faceted analysis of Wal-song, and the role of this “great singers, the Navy” role of the life of the piece.
The universe is the mirror: The Saga is the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries, which will be built. Robert Zimmerman. 2008. Princeton, $ 29.95 (9780691132976).
The Hubble telescope is the result of brilliant technical innovations, the crushing defeat a setback, and the triumphant rebound, the dramatic story of an exceptionally well-told by Zimmerman.
Finnish
Parrot Who Thought She* Was a Dog, is an amazing read, it really shows how a macaw can become a great companion, I definately reccommend it!