Bibliography of Readings on Humanities and Science

Jones Professorship Project 2004-2006

 

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. New York: Random House, 1990.

Baker, Lee. D. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Barnhill, D. L., and R. S. Gottlieb. Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Barry, John. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Penguin, 2004.

Bronowski, Jacob. Science and Human Values. New York: Harper and Row, 1956.

Burke, James. The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo’s Telescope Changed the Truth. London: London Writers Ltd., 1985.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Collins, Harry, and Trevor Pinch. The Golem: What You Should Know About Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Canada: Harper Collins Canada Ltd., 1983.

Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Dubos. Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress and Biological Change. Rutgers, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Loren Eiseley. The Firmament of Time. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Loren Eiseley. The Immense Journey. New York: Random House, 1957.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History. New York: Penguin, 1983.

Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe. New York: Random House, 1999.

Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking, 2005.

Diamond, Jared. Guns. Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997.

Jackson, Wes. Becoming Native to This Place. Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 1994.

Jackson, Wes. Altars of Hewn Stone: Science and the Earth. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

Klee, Robert. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Cutting Nature at its Seams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kragh, Helga. Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lewis, C. S. The Abolition of Man. 1944. New York: Harper Collins, 1971.

Malin, Shimon. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

McPhee, John. Annals of the Former World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

McPhee, John. The Founding Fish. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989.

McNeill. Plagues and People. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

Odum, E. P. Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Press, 1997.

Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001.

Pollan, Michael. Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education. New York: Grove Press, 1991.

Sachs, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York: Touchstone, 1998.

Satinover, Jeffrey. The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man. New York: Wiley, 2001.

Sobel, Dava. Gallileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker and Co., 1995.

Swimme, Brian. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1996.

Thomas, Lewis. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. New York: Penguin Books, 1983.

Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. New York: Viking Press, 1974.

Tudge, Colin. Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began. Great Britain: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998

Wilson, E. O. The Future of Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Zinsser, Rats, Lice, and History (1935), available in many editions.

FICTION and DRAMA READING LIST

Auburn, David. Proof: A Play

Barrett, Andrea. Ship Fever.

Barrett, Andrea. Servants of the Map

Barrett, Andrea. Voyage of the Narwhale

Camus. The Plague

Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play

Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen.

Kingsolver, Barbara. Poisonwood Bible.

Martell, Yann. The Life of Pi.

McEwan, Ian. Enduring Love.

McEwan, Ian. Saturday.

Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia

 

CLASSICS

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Locke, John. “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
Diderot, Denis. D’Alembert’s Dream
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire, “Micromegas”