Holiday Book Shopping Guide #90

We help you plan your holiday gift-giving with an hour on the best books about science. We’re joined by a panel of former guests, including astronomer Nicole Gugliucci, psychotherapist Dana Blumrosen, and writer/performer Kennedy Goodkey. They’ll share their favorite science books, and help you fill out your holiday shopping list - even if you’re buying for yourself.

Here's a full list of books mentioned in this episode, arranged by the mentioner: (For links to buy all the available books on the list, see this handy page, thoughtfully compiled by Tim Farley of What's The Harm?)

• Dana Blumrosen:
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
• Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure - Paul Offit
• Fermat's Last Theorem: The Epic Quest to Solve the Worlds Greatest Mathematical Problem - Simon Singh
• Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind - Carl Zimmer
• Nicole Gugliucci:
• Death From The Skies: These are the Ways the World will End... - Phil Plait
• Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries - Ben Radford
• Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam - Pope Brock
• Max Goes To Mars: Science Adventures With Max The Dog - Jeffrey Bennett
• Contact - Carl Sagan
• Infected , Contagious - Scott Sigler
• Kennedy Goodkey:
• A Brief History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom? - David Brin
• Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
• Physics Of The Buffyverse - Jennifer Ouellette
• Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains - Jack Brink
• Desiree Schell:
• Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal - Martin Bridgstock
• Michael Kruse:
• Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
• Taking The Medicine: A Short History of Medicines Beautiful Idea, and our Difficulty Swallowing it - Druin Burch
• Heidi Anderson:
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
• Jim Lippard:
• The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought- Thomas Kuhn
• Ben Radford:
• The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
• How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life - Thomas Gilovich
• Kylie Sturgess:
• Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition - Stuart A. Vyse
• Ruth Seeley:
• Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle - Ian Sample
• Bright Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America - Barbara Ehrenrich
• Bad Ideas?: An Arresting History of Our Inventions - Sir Robert Winston
• Newton And The Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
• Inventing Green* - Alexis Madrigal
• The Sky's Dark Labyrinth* - Stuart Clark
• Solar - Ian McEwan
• The Honest Look - Jennifer Rohn
• The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse - Jennifer Ouellette
• Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and our Place in Nature - Brian Switek
• Austin Luton:
• Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond - Tony Rothman
• Jason Jones:
• Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be - Daniel Loxton
• Jenna Marie Griffith:
• The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture - Barbara Larson & Fae Brauer
• Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts - Diana Donald and Jane Munro
• John Logsdon:
• Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation: The Definite Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex - Olivia Judson
• Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) - Cindy Meston & David Buss
• Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality - Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá
• Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature - David Barash & Nanelle Barash
• The Score: How the Quest for Sex has Shaped the Modern Man - Faye Flam
• Charles Darwin's on the Origin's of Species: A Graphic Adaptation - Michael Keller
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins