May 9, 2011
Radiolab Reads: A Virtual Bookshelf
We're keeping a running list of all the books we touch on in our hour-long episodes--a virtual bookshelf that you can scan any time you're looking for a little inspiration. It's in reverse chronological order, so titles from our most recent shows are at the top. Happy reading.
- Akira Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity
- Duncan C. Blanchard, The Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A Bentley
- Ken Libbrecht, The Secret Life of a Snowflake: An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes
- Ken Libbrecht, Ken Libbrecht's Field Guide to Snowflakes
- W.A. Bentley, Snowflakes in Photographs
- Reverend Mike Young, A Preacher's Poems
- Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations
- Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb
- Errol Morris, A Wilderness of Error
- Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
- Thomas Seeley, Honeybee Democracy
- Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
- James Gleick, Issac Newton
- Victoria Finlay, Color: A Natural History of the Palette
- Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
- Homer, The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
- Fred Kaufman, A Short History of the American Stomach
- Jon Reiner, The Man Who Couldn't Eat
- Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- David Buss, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
- Daniel Charles, Master Mind : The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare
- Fritz Stern, Five Germanys I Have Known
- Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case, Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
- Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
- Nathan Wolfe, The Viral Storm
- Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On
- Jonnie Hughes, The Origin of Teepees
- Debbie Henderson, Hat Talk
- Alex Bellos, Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
- Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
- Melanie Thernstrom, The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
- Eric Simons, The Secret Lives of Sports Fans
- Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
- Frank Brady, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
- Brian Christian, The Most Human Human
- Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
- Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts, Grace Beber (Editors), Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer
- Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
- Robert Levine, A Geography Of Time: On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life
- Diane Galusha, Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System
- Garrett Soden, Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling
- Joan Murray, Queen of the Mist: The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara
- Susan Schaller, A Man Without Words
- Charles Fernyhough, A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind
- James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
- Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
- Alston Chase, A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism
- Michael Cohen, A Garden Of Bristlecones: Tales Of Change In The Great Basin (Environmental Arts and Humanities)
- Ron Lanner, The Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World's Oldest Trees
- Carol Berman, Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide (Practical Guides in Psychiatry)
- V.S. Ramachandran, The Man with the Phantom Twin: Adventures in the Neuroscience of the Human Brain
- Mark Salzman, Lying Awake
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Charles Seibert, The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals
- Paul Nicklin, Polar Obsession
- Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
- Steven Strogatz, The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
- Robert Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
- Dale Peterson & Richard Wrangham, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
- Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
- Gary Greenberg, The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons
- David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
- Paul Broks, Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
- Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
- Carl Zimmer, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
- Sherry Turkle, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind
- Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
- Tim Birkhead, Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
- Matthew Cobb, Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth
- Steve Jones, Y: The Descent of Men
- Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
- Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World
- Leo Rangell, Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border
- Aaron A. Fox, Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
- Paul Ekman, Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
- Paul Ekman & Wallace V. Friesen, Unmasking the Face
- Leonard Hayflick, How and Why We Age
- Joseph Ledoux, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
- Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist
- Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
- Deborah Wearing, Forever today: a memoir of love and amnesia
- Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- Marina Belozerskaya, The Medici Giraffe
- Daniel Carr, Narrative, Pain And Suffering (Progress in Pain Research and Management, Volume 34)
- Anne Harrington, The Placebo Effect: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
- Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
- Jonathan Cole, Pride and a Daily Marathon (Bradford Books)
- Frans de Waal, My Family Album: Thirty Years of Primate Photography
Beyond Time and Time
- Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
- Jay Griffiths, A Sideways Look at Time
- Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
- Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- Stephen Strogatz, SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
- Deborah Gordon, Ants At Work: How An Insect Society Is Organized
- Stephen Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- Christof Koch, The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
- Francis Crick, Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
- Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping (2nd Edition)
- Robert Sapolsky, The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament
- Robert Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
- Steven Johnson, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- Julian Keenan, The Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness
- Paul Broks, Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions)
