As we’ve all had plenty of time to read over the past year or so, we thought it would be interesting to give a monthly book recommendation. The books could be on any scientific topic, but will be accessible to the casual reader. We’re planning to send out a recommendation the weekend after each monthly meeting and previous books will be added to this post.
If you’d like to recommend a book, please drop us an email.
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered by Paul Pettitt
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
A brief history of the Future – The Origins of the Internet by John Naughton.
Growing a Revolution – Bringing the Soil Back to Life by David Montgomery
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales
Exactly – How Precision engineering created the modern world by Simon Winchester
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“Sustainable Materials – with both eyes open” by Julian M Allwood
“Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest expeditions” by David Attenborough
“A Life on Our Planet: My witness statement and a vision for the future” by David Attenborough
“The Green Planet” by Simon Barnes
“The Burning Answer: A user’s guide to the solar revolution” by Keith Barnham
“Whole Earth Discipline: An ecopragmatist manifesto” by Steward Brand
“Seeing Further: Ideas, endeavours, discoveries and disputes – The story of science through 350 years of the Royal Society” by Bill Bryson
“Earthshot: How to save our planet” by Colin Butfield
“The Wolverine Way” by Douglas H Chadwick
“Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The story of the first American woman to command a space mission” by Eileen M Collins
“The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the geeks who are trying to save humanity’s future” by Tom Chivers
“Tambora: The eruption that changed the world” by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
“Origins: How Earth’s history shaped human history” by Lewis Dartnell
“God and the New Physics” by Paul Davies
“Not Just for the Boys: Why we need more women in science” by Athene Donald
“Oxford Figures: Eight centuries of the mathematical sciences” by John Fauvel
“Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas L Friedman
“Hello World: Being human in the age of algorithms” by Hannah Fry
“Mathematical Carnival” by Martin Gardner
“God’s Philosophers: How the medieval world laid the foundations of today’s science” by James Hannam
“The Ecology of Commerce: A declaration of sustainability” by Paul Hawken
“39 Ways to Save the Planet: Real world solutions to climate change – and the people who are making them happen” by Tom Heap
“Programmed Inequality: How Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in technology” by Marie Hicks
“Moby-Duck: The true story of 28,000 bath toys lost at sea and the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists and fools, including the author, who went in search of them” by Donovan Hohn
“The Solar Century” by Jeremy Leggett
“The Winning of the Carbon War” by Jeremy Leggett
“The Wired Society: A challenge for tomorrow” by James Martin
“Sustainable Energy – without the hot air” by David MacKay
“Not the End of the World: How we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet” by Hannah Ritchie
“The Monty Hall Problem: The remarkable story of math’s most contentious brain teaser” by Jason Rosenhouse
“The Lost Fens: England’s greatest ecological disaster” by Ian D Rotherham
“Uncle Tungsten” by Oliver Sacks
“The Many Faces of Science: An introduction to scientists, values and society” by Leslie Forster Stevenson
“An Optimist’s Tour of the Future:” by Mark Stevenson
“We Do Things Differently: The outsiders rebooting our world” by Mark Stevenson
“Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures” by Ian Stewart
“A Travel Guide to the Scientific Sites of the British Isles: A guide to the people, places and landmarks of science” by Charles Tanford
“Nature’s Fortune: How business and society thrive by investing in nature” by Mark R Tercek
“Wilding” by Isabella Tree
“From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the rise of digital utopianism” by Fred Turner
“Encounters with Euclid: How an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world” by Benjamin Wardlaugh
“Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands saga” by Laura Watts
“Sticky: The secret science of surfaces” by Laurie Winkless