Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for August 2016.

Please use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to insert a link to the Goodreads book page for the book you are nominating, so other members can more easily assess it.

You may nominate a book which has been suggested previously and did not win.

Please do not nominate a book which is unlikely to be available to all members, such as one which was just published within the last three months or which is only available on Kindle.

Nominations will close on June 21 or when we have about 10 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

I would like to nominate
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
and
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

We read Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic for September 2013. Here is the discussion thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I would like to nominate by Gabrielle Walker once again. Don't think we've read it yet and would be a good coool read for the dog days of August :)

I'd like to recommend Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos.

I think Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a very good book..

Bruno wrote: "
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers"

I've got this on my shelf but haven't read it yet, so I second this.
Also:
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things

Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Just started reading Adventure in Human Being and it is quite a wonderful book. It won many prizes including Best Book of the Year from the London Times. Compulsively readable.

I'm also very interested in Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers. It's been on my to-read list for years.

Elizabeth wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Just started reading Adventure in Human Being and it is quite a wonderful book. It won many prizes including Best Book of the ..."

I don't understand, Elizabeth. Are you nominating this book for the August group read? It's already the group read for the current month of June.

I would like to nominate What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions for the month of August.

I second .
Or I would also like to read this one: .

I'd like to nominate The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, if we haven't already read it.

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Nominations are closed.

Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

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