NYT Science Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Henry PetroskiNYT ScienceHenry Petroski, an engineering professor at Duke University, wrote with a literary bent about the designs of buildings and bridges, and how they failed. He also examined the history of quotidian objects like the pencil and the toothpick. https://t.co/BUXPF0iJs7
Paperback, 1992
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
Henry PetroskiNYT ScienceHenry Petroski, an engineering professor at Duke University, wrote with a literary bent about the designs of buildings and bridges, and how they failed. He also examined the history of quotidian objects like the pencil and the toothpick. https://t.co/zP00SPTru8
Paperback, 2008
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Toothpick: Technology and Culture
Henry PetroskiNYT ScienceHenry Petroski, an engineering professor at Duke University, wrote with a literary bent about the designs of buildings and bridges, and how they failed. He also examined the history of quotidian objects like the pencil and the toothpick. https://t.co/BUXPF0iJs7
Paperback, 2008
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Michael LewisNYT ScienceThe experts Michael Lewis spoke to for his 2017 book, “The Fifth Risk,” saw the coronavirus pandemic “as a dry run for something much worse,” he said, a possibility he lays out in his new book, “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story” https://nyti.ms/3j1EdpP
Paperback, 2019
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Henry PetroskiNYT ScienceHenry Petroski, an engineering professor at Duke University, wrote with a literary bent about the designs of buildings and bridges, and how they failed. He also examined the history of quotidian objects like the pencil and the toothpick. https://t.co/jIoA2uQO5f
Paperback, 1992
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Toothpick: Technology and Culture
Henry PetroskiNYT ScienceHenry Petroski, an engineering professor at Duke University, wrote with a literary bent about the designs of buildings and bridges, and how they failed. He also examined the history of quotidian objects like the pencil and the toothpick. https://t.co/jIoA2uQO5f
Paperback, 2008
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
David George HaskellNYT ScienceThe most powerful species on earth is silencing the others at a devastating rate. “The vitality of the world depends, in part, on whether we turn our ears back to the living earth,” David George Haskell writes in “Sounds Wild and Broken.” https://t.co/XPz0MJOrHS
Paperback, 2023
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Animal Farm
George OrwellNYT ScienceWhen George Orwell wrote in “Animal Farm” that some animals were more equal than others, he was trying to shed light on the human ideological conflicts of the time. The researchers hope to use the analogy in the opposite direction. https://t.co/l2F1ftHZJ6
Hardcover, 1990
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael LewisNYT ScienceThe experts Michael Lewis spoke to for his 2017 book, “The Fifth Risk,” saw the coronavirus pandemic “as a dry run for something much worse,” he said, a possibility he lays out in his new book, “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story” https://nyti.ms/3j1EdpP
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Henry PetroskiNYT ScienceHenry Petroski, an engineering professor at Duke University, wrote with a literary bent about the designs of buildings and bridges, and how they failed. He also examined the history of quotidian objects like the pencil and the toothpick. https://t.co/zP00SPTru8
Paperback, 1992
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book