Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for June 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 April 21 or when we have about 10 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

I'll nominate Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To byDean Burnett

Paul wrote: "I'll nominate Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To byDean Burnett"

Sorry. That's too new. Some of the editions haven't even been published yet.

Betsy wrote: "Sorry. That's too new. Some of the editions haven't even been published yet."


My apologies, I shall withdraw. I thought it was 3 months since first publication.

If I'm reading things right, first publication was February 2016 and that was limited. That's only two months ago.

Feel free to nominate it again in a couple months.

Cool. I shall shelve it, appropriately enough.

Instead I'll nominate The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity by Bruce M. Hood




Yes, there may be a pattern here.

Teach Yourself Understand Physics

I'll nominate The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. He does a great job of showing how innovation happens & it's usually not the lone inventor in a garage.

very much inspired to the books written by David J Griffiths,
all his collections are valuable and imparting a good idea about the subject

Kaushik wrote: "very much inspired to the books written by David J Griffiths,
all his collections are valuable and imparting a good idea about the subject"

You really need to pick one book, so we can look at it and allow the other members to vote on it.

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum, by Gavin Francis

I nominate: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins.

I'll nominate Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, by Ian Stewart

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll

I nominate Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey

Nominations have been closed. Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

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

Voting will close at the end of April 27.