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- Don Monroe
- Formerly a practicing physicist and electrical engineer, I have been a freelance science writer since 2003, with an ever-growing interest in biology. My publications are under "Clips" at www.DonMonroe.info.
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Books I've Read
- Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Power, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (2018)
- Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist (2019)
- Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (2016)
- Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (2020)
- Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016)
- Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness (2015)
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History (2016)
- Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science? (2019)
- Susan Hockfield, The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution (2019)
- Ernst Mayer, What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline (2004)
- Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There (2015)
- Eugene Fitzgerald, Andreas Wankerl, Carl J. Schramm, Inside Real Innovation: How the Right Approach Can Move Ideas from R&D to Market-- and Get the Economy Moving (2011)
- George Musser, Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything (2015)
- Alison Bechdel,, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
- Gregory Maquire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (2000)
- Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014)
- Michael Fumento, Science Under Siege: How the Environmental Misinformation Campaign is Affecting Our Laws, Taxes, and Our Daily Lives (1993)
- Paul Sabin, The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future (2013)
- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1945)
- George Johnson, The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery (2013)
- Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth (2010)
- Arthur Koestler, The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971)
- Anton Zeilinger, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation (2010)
- Eric Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (2012)
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (2011)
- Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution is True (2009)
- Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses (2011)
- Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller, eds. Evolution, the Extended Synthesis (2010)
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (2008)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
- Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (2012)
- Horace Freeland Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology (1979)
- Simon Johnson & James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (2010)
- Gary Greenberg, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease (2010)
- Daniel Carlat, Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis (2010)
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010)
- Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005)
- Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997)
- Roger Pielke, Jr., The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming (2010)
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
- Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood (2010)
- Alex O'Meara, Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials (2010)
- Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)
- Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010)
- Francis S. Collins, The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine (2010) My review
- Marc W. Kirschner & John C. Gerhart, The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma (2006) My posts about this book
- Roger A. Pielke, The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics (2007) My review
- Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (2009) My review
- James Hoggan & Richard Littlemore, Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (2009) My review
- Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)
- Randy Olson, Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style (2009) My review
- T. R. Reid,The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (2009) My review
- Marcia Angell, The truth about the drug companies: how they deceive us and what to do about it (2004)
- Melody Peterson, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (2008)
- Robert Charles Wilson, Spin (2004)
- Doris Lessing, Mara and Dann, An Adventure (1999)
- Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future (2009)
- Eugenie Samuel Reich, Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud In Physics Shook the Scientific World (2009)
- Alan Moore, Watchmen (1986-7)
- Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It (2008)
- Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)
- Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (2008)
- Carl Zimmer, Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life (2008)
- Jim Kakalios, The Physics of Superheroes (2005)
- David Michaels, Doubt is their product: how industry's assault on science threatens your health (2008).
- Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (2007)
- David A. Weintraub, Is Pluto a Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System (2006)
- Gino Segre, Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics (2007)
- David Sloan Wilson Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think (2007)
- Jessica Snyder Sachs, Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World (2007)
- Kim Stanley Robinson The Ministry for the Future (2020)
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