Science and Inquiry discussion

Please use this thread to post your suggestions for the group read for May 2014. Please be sure to use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to add a link so other members can easily investigate the book you are suggesting.

You may re-nominate something that has been nominated before.

Please do not nominate something that was just published within the last three months or so. We're a diverse group living all around the world, and very new books may not be available to everyone.

Nominations will close on March 25 or when we have about ten good suggestions, whichever happens first.

In honor of the remake of Cosmos, I'd like to nominate my personal favorite book by the late great Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

I think there's a lot of interesting things in there that could spark some great discussions.

I'll second that one since I believe EVERYONE should read it! :)

I love anything by Carl Sagan. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is wonderful.

I've had this on my to-read list for a while, he's a fascinating person, I'm sure it's wonderful.

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

There's some reviews @ Amazon.

I've been meaning to read Demon-Haunted World for a while.

Demon-Haunted World would be an interesting read, I'd also like to suggest Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman or Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin.

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution, by Rebecca Stott.

The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

Matthew wrote: "I would enjoy reading A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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That's a great book! But our Science and Inquiry group read it several years ago.

Great book! I need to re-read it myself!

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. A quote from The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.

"Ocean acidification is, of course, not the only threat reefs are under. Indeed, insome parts of the world, reefs probably will not last long enough for ocean acidificationto finish them off. The roster of perils includes, but is not limited to: overfishing, which promotes the growth of algae that compete with corals; agricultural runoff, which also encourages algae growth; deforestation, which leads to siltation and"

Nominations have been closed.

The Sixth Extinction sounds really interesing, but it was just published last month, so I haven't included it in the poll.

Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting will close on April 1, 2014.