Summer reading counts for WV Reads 150
Suggested Reading
Blinding You with Science
The 500 section of the Dewey Decimal system focuses on the wonders of the natural world. Atom or orangutan, it's all there.
Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird
598.8 F19c
From West Virginia and the Appalachian Mountains to Bogota, Colombia, the tiny Cerulean Blue migrates, but in fewer and fewer numbers. Fallon follows the path of this lovely little songbird as it loses habitat at both ends of its journey.
search Novelist® PlusThe Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
550 S56
Shubin's picture of science is big and broad. He ties together fossils and DNA, supernovae and our own bodies.
search Novelist® PlusLife Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
591.7 H46
Popular nature writer Heinrich shows the circle of life - how the death of one animal benefits other creatures.
search Novelist® PlusThe Grand Design
530.142 H39g
The three central questions of philosophy and science: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? Hawking and his co-author Mlodinow explore these questions.
search Novelist® PlusThe Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
539.721 C31p
More than 6000 scientists searched for 10 years before discovering the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event.
search Novelist® PlusDecade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
599.773 S64d 2012
Wolf biologist Smith and nature writer Ferguson deliver a compelling inside look at the Yellowstone Wolf Recovery Project, covering the 10 years that have passed since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made the controversial decision to reintroduce wolves into the national park.
search Novelist® PlusThe Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
510 S92j
Did you hate math when you were in school? Strogatz makes it fun by showing how math is part of our everyday lives and how we use it.
search Novelist® PlusZoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
590.73 F87L
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco.
search Novelist® PlusThe Ocean of Life
551.46 R64o
Roberts discusses the vital role oceans play and the myriad of challenges facing them.
search Novelist® PlusHope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
591.68 G64h
Goodall traveled the world to meet with various scientists and discuss with them their successful work with species ranging from the American burying beetle to the Formosan landlocked salmon, the Attwater's prairie chicken and the ploughshare tortoise.
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