• Recommendations for orienting the beginner or challenging the veteran teacher.
• Maps Are Territories, Science is an Atlas, David Turnbull
• Conjuring Science, Christopher Toumey
• Philosophy and Sociology of Science: An Introduction, Stewart Richards
• 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 Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2d. ed., Thomas Kuhn
• Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science, Royston M. Roberts
• Words, Science and Learning, Clive Sutton
• Science Teaching: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science, Michael Matthews
• The Growth of Scientific Ideas: Laboratory Manual, Paul Cohen
• How To Lie With Maps, Mark Monmonier

  "Oldies But Goodies," reviewed by Maura Flannery:

• The Limitations of Science, J.W.N. Sullivan
• Science and the Classics, D'Arcy Thompson
• Pluto's Republic, Peter Medawar

• The History of Modern Science: A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800-1950, Stephen G. Brush
• Science, Technology and Society, A Historical Perspective, Martin Fichman
• The Norton History of Chemistry, William H. Brock.
• The History of Chemistry, John Hudson
• Doing Biology, Joel Hagen, Douglas Allchin and Fred Singer
• Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1: Voyaging, Janet Browne
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2d. ed., Thomas Kuhn
• Great Geological Controversies, Anthony Hallam
• A History of Geology, Gabriel Gohau
• Children of Prometheus: A History of Science and Technology, James MacLachlan

• Reading the Book of Nature, Peter Kosso
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2d. ed., Thomas Kuhn
• Beauty and Revolution in Science, James McAllister
• Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" Among Bees, Adrian M. Wenner and Patrick H. Wells

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2d. ed., Thomas Kuhn
• Conjuring Science, Christopher Toumey
• Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Flouridation Debate, Brian Martin
• Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa, Thomas Bass

• see also Astronomy
• Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science, Gerald Holton and Stephen G. Brush
• Rediscovering Optics, Nahum Kipnis
• Sparks and Shocks, Bakken Library
• Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos, Jeremy Bernstein
• Space, Time and Man: A Prehistorian's View, Grahame Clark
• Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman

• The Norton History of Chemistry, William H. Brock.
• The History of Chemistry, John Hudson
• Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science, Gerald Holton and Stephen G. Brush

• Doing Biology, Joel Hagen, Douglas Allchin and Fred Singer
• Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study, Corcos and Monaghan
• Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1: Voyaging, Janet Browne
• Anti-Evolution: A Reader's Guide to Writings Before and After Darwin, 2nd ed., Tom McIver
• The Diary of William Harvey, Jean Hamburger
• Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa, Thomas Bass
• Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" Among Bees, Adrian M. Wenner and Patrick H. Wells
• Guns, Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond
• Microbes, Bugs and Wonder Drugs, Fran Balkwell and Mic Rolph
• Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, Mark Plotkin Watersheds: Classic Cases in Environmental Ethics, Lisa Newton and Catherine Dillingham
• Environmental Ethics, Joseph R. Des Jardins
• Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle, F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert (eds.)
• Cases in Bioethics, Bette-Jane Crigger (ed.)
• Women Life Scientists: Past, Present and Future: Connecting Role Models to the Classroom Curriculum, Marsha L. Matyas and Ann E. Haley-Oliphant (eds.)

• Great Geological Controversies, Anthony Hallam
• A History of Geology, Gabriel Gohau
• How To Lie With Maps, Mark Monmonier

last updated: 10/15/00