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

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

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