And Science book picks for 2013 from Science Friday:
http://sciencefriday.com/segment/12/...-for-2013.html
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, the Scientist, and the Lindbergh Kidnapping by Adam Schrager
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? by Gemma Elwin Harris
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel
On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from The Edge of Science by Dorion Sagan
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem
Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson
Einstein and The Quantum: The Quest of the Valian Swabian by A. Douglas Stone