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Consult short reviews of books -- organized here alphabetically by author -- to help address your needs for integrating history, philosophy and sociology of science into the classroom.

  • The Bakken Library, Sparks and Shocks
  • Fran Balkwell and Mic Rolph, Microbes, Bugs and Wonder Drugs
  • Thomas Bass, Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa
  • Jeremy Bernstein, Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos
  • F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert (eds.), Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
  • William H. Brock., The Norton History of Chemistry
  • Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1: Voyaging
  • Stephen G. Brush, The History of Modern Science: A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800-1950
  • Grahame Clark, Space, Time and Man: A Prehistorian's View
  • Paul Cohen, The Growth of Scientific Ideas: Laboratory Manual
  • Corcos and Monaghan, Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study
  • Bette-Jane Crigger (ed.), Cases in Bioethics
  • Joseph R. Des Jardins, Environmental Ethics
  • Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs & Steel
  • Martin Fichman, Science, Technology and Society: A Historical Perspective
  • Gabriel Gohau, A History of Geology
  • Joel Hagen, Douglas Allchin and Fred Singer, Doing Biology
  • Anthony Hallam, Great Geological Controversies
  • Jean Hamburger, The Diary of William Harvey
  • Gerald Holton and Stephen G. Brush, Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science
  • John Hudson, The History of Chemistry
  • G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes (eds.), Women of Science: Righting the Record
  • Nahum Kipnis, Rediscovering Optics
  • Peter Kosso, Reading the Book of Nature
  • Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2d. ed.
  • Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
  • James MacLachlan, Children of Prometheus: A History of Science and Technology
  • Brian Martin, Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Flouridation Debate
  • Marsha L. Matyas and Ann E. Haley-Oliphant (eds.), Women Life Scientists: Past, Present and Future: Connecting Role Models to the Classroom Curriculum
  • Michael Matthews, Science Teaching: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science
  • James McAllister, Beauty and Revoltion in Science
  • Tom McIver, Anti-Evolution: A Reader's Guide to Writings Before and After Darwin
  • Peter Medawar, Pluto's Republic
  • Mark Monmonier, How To Lie With Maps
  • Lisa Newton and Catherine Dillingham, Watersheds: Classic Cases in Environmental Ethics
  • F. Barbara Orlans, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation
  • Mark Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
  • Stewart Richards, Philosophy and Sociology of Science: An Introduction
  • Royston M. Roberts, Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science.
  • Merrilee Salmon and Members of the Dept. of the History and Philosophy of Science of the Univ. of Pittsburgh, Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
  • J.W.N. Sullivan, The Limitations of Science
  • Clive Sutton, Words, Science and Learning
  • D'Arcy Thompson, Science and the Classics
  • Christopher Toumey, Conjuring Science
  • David Turnbull, Maps Are Territories, Science is an Atlas
  • Adrian M. Wenner and Patrick H. Wells, Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" Among Bees

    last updated: 10/15/00

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