Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle by Michael Benson. Abrams, 2009 Journalist Michael Benson leads readers from our own Milky Way back in time and space to the earliest galaxies with this glorious collection of astronomical images from the finest ground- and space-based telescopes, as well as a few amateur astrophotographers.
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography by David Hempleman-Adams, Emma Stuart and Sophie Gordon. Bloomsbury, 2009
No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale by Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides. Harvard University Press, 2009
BIOGRAPHIES Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen. A biography of Grigory Perelman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls. University of Chicago Press, 2009
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King by Brad Matsen. Pantheon, 2009
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer. MIT Press, 2009
OTHER NONFICTION The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade. Penguin Press, 2009
Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health by John Wargo. Yale University Press, 2009
Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott D. Sampson. University of California Press, 2009
Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football by Wayne L. Winston. Princeton University Press, 2009
Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity by G. A. Bradshaw. Yale University Press, 2009
EXHIBITS Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World. November 14, 2009–August 15, 2010, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato. October 10–April 11, 2010, at the Detroit Science Center.
Note: This article was originally printed with the title, “Recommended.”
