The Signal & The Noise: Why so many predictions fail - but some don't
Nate Silver
Penguin 2012 (534p)
9781594204111

The End of Growth: But is that all bad?
Jeff Rubin
Random House Canada 2012 (296p)
978-0-307-36089-2

What Money Can't Buy
Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, NY 2012 (245p)
978-0-374-20303-0

Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Doubleday Canada 2012 (449p)
9780385676519

Overdiagnosed: making people sick in the pursuit of health
Dr. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa Schwartz, and Dr.Steven Woloshin
Beacon Press 2011 (228p)
978-0-8070-2200-9

Incognito: the secret lives of the brain
David Eagleman
Viking Canada 2011 (290p)
978-0-670-06392-5

Wrong: why experts* keep failing us - and how to know when not to trust them (*scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, high-powered consultants, health officials, and more)
David H. Freedman
Little, Brown, and Company 2010 (296p)
978-0-316-02378-8

Worried Sick: a prescription for health in an overtreated America
Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
University of North Carolina Press, 2008 (377p)
978-0-8078-3187-8

Where Good Ideas Come From: the natural history of innovation
Steven Johnson
Riverhead Books, 2010 (326p)
1-59448-771-2

The Rational Optimist: how prosperity evolves
Matt Ridley
Free Press, 2010 (438p)
978-0-06-145205-5

The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution
Richard Dawkins
Free Press, 2009 (470p)
978-1-4165-9478-9

The Age of Persuasion: how marketing ate our culture
Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2009 (324p)
978-0-307-39731-7

My Stroke of Insight: a brain scientist's personal journey
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking, 2006 (184p)
978-0-670-02074-4

How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 (302p)
978-0-618-62011-1

Connected: the surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives
Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
Little, Brown and Company, 2009 (338p)
978-0-316-03614-6

What Is America: a short history of the new world order
Ronald Wright
Knoff Canada, 2008 (368p)
978-0-676-97982-4

Wired for War: the robotics revolution and conflict in the 21st Century
P.W. Singer
Penguin, 2009 (499p)
978-1-59420-198-1

Flotsametrics and the Floating World: how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science
Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano
Smithsonian Books (Harper Collins), 2009 (286p)
978-0-06-155841-2

The Drunkard's Walk: how randomness rules our lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Pantheon Books, 2008 (253p)
978-0-375-42404-5

The 12$ Million Stuffed Shark: the curious economics of contemporary art
Don Thompson
Doubleday, 2008 (268p)
978-0-385-66677-0

Why Evolution Is True
Jerry Coyne
Penguin, 2009 (282p)
9780670020539

Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life
Carl Zimmer
Pantheon Books, 2008 (243p)
978-0-375-42430-4

Physics for Future Presidents: the science behind the headlines
Richard A. Muller
W.W. Norton, 2008 (380p)
978-0-393-06627-2

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: the new science of evo devo
Sean B. Carroll
W.W. Norton, 2005 (350p)
0-393-0616-0

Snake Oil Science: the truth about complementary and alternative medicine
R. Barker Bausell
Oxford University Press, 2007 (324p)
978-0-19-531368-0

Your Inner Fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
Neil Shubin
Pantheon Books, 2008 (230p)
978-0-375-42447-2

Dangerous World: natural disasters, manmade catastrophes, and the future of human survival
Marq de Villiers
Viking Canada, 2008 (362p)
0-670-06568-4

In Defense of Food: an eater's manifesto
Michael Pollan
The Penguin Press, 2008 (244p)
1-59420-145-5

The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals
Michael Pollan
The Penguin Press, 2006 (451p)
1-59420-082-3

Predictably Irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions
Dan Ariely
Harper Collins, 2008 (280p)
978-0-06-135323-9

Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game
Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton, 2003 (316p)
978-0-393-05765-2

Pandemonium: bird flu, mad cow disease, and other biological plagues of the 21st century
Andrew Nikiforuk
Princeton Viking Canada, 2006 (304p)
0-670-04519-5

The Journey of Man: a genetic odyssey
Spencer Wells
Princeton University Press, 2002 (224p)
0-691-11532-X

The Weather Makers: how we are changing the climate and what it means for life on earth
Tim Flannery
HarperCollins, 2005 (357p)
978-0-00-200751-1

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, 2006 (406p)
0-618-68000-4

No Two Alike: human nature and human individuality
Judith Rich Harris
W.W. Norton & Co, 2006 (322p)
0-393-05948-0

The Female Brain
Louanne Brizendine
Morgan Road Books, 2006 (279p)
0-7679-2009-0

The End of Faith
Sam Harris
W.W. Norton & Co, 2004 (336p)
0393035158

While Europe Slept: how radical Islam is destroying the west from within
Bruce Bawer
Doubleday, 2006 (247p)
0-385-51472-7

Breaking the Spell: religion as a natural phenomenon
Daniel C. Dennett
Viking Books, 2006 (448p)
067003472X

The Cutter Incident: how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis
Paul A. Offit, M.D.
Yale University Press, 2005 (238p)
0-300-10864-8

The Long Emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
James Howard Kunstler
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005 (307p)
0-87113-888-3

Assembling California
John McPhee
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1993 (304p)
0-374-10645-2

Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy
Matthew R. Simmons
Wiley, 2005 (422p)
0-471-73876-X

The Hype About Hydrogen: fact and fiction in the race to save the climate
Joseph J. Romm
Island Press, 2004 (239p)
1-55963-703-X

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004 (250p)
1-57675-301-8

Madame Bovary's Ovaries: a Darwinian look at literature
David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash
Random House, 2005 (262p)
0-385-33801-5

Three Billion New Capitalists: the great shift of wealth and power to the east
Clyde Prestowitz
Basic Books, 2005 (321p)
0-465-06281-4

Hubbert's Peak: the impending world oil shortage
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Princeton University Press, 2001 (224p)
0-691-11625-3

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2005 (242p)
0-06-073132-x

On Intelligence: how a new understanding of the brain will lead to the creation of truly intelligent machines
Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee
Henry Holt and Company, 2004 (262p)
0-8050-7456-2

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a trilogy in five parts
Douglas Adams
William Heinemann, 1995 (776p)
0-434-00348-4
Now including:
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Life, The Universe and Everything (1982)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
Mostly Harmless (1992)

The Sorrows of Empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the republic
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt and Company, 2004 (389p)
0-8050-7004-4

House of Bush, House of Said: the secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties
Craig Unger
Scribner, 2004 (356p)
074325337X

Y: The Descent of Men
Steve Jones
Perseus, 2002 (280p)
0-316-85615-0

In the Blink of an Eye
Andrew Parker
Perseus, 2003 (316p)
0738206075

The Empty Ocean
Richard Ellis
Putnam, 2003 (367p)
1-55963-974-1

Napoleon's Buttons: how 17 molecules changed history
Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
Putnam, 2003 (375p)
1-58542-220-7

The Nature of Economies
Jane Jacobs
Random House, 2000 (190p)
0-679-31036-3

Darwin and the Barnacles: the story of one tiny creature and history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough
Rebecca Stott
Faber and Faber, 2003 (309p)
0-571-20966-1

Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton, 2003 (303p)
0-393-05093-9

The Emperor of Scent: a story of perfume, obsession, and the last mystery of the senses
Chandler Burr
Random House, 2002 (305p)
0-7382-0667-9

Linked: the new science of networks
Albert-László Barabási
Perseus Publishing, 2002 (280p)
0-7382-0667-9

The Century of the Gene
Evelyn Fox Keller
Harvard Univ Press, 2000 (186p)
0-674-00372-1

Bionomics: economy as ecosystem
Michael Rothschild
Henry Holt, 1990 (423p)
0805019790

Redesigning Humans: our inevitable genetic future
Gregory Stock
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2002 (277p)
061806026X

What Just Happened: a chronicle from the information frontier
James Gleick
Random House, 2002 (302p)
0375421777

The Botany of Desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
Michael Pollan
Random House, 2001 (245p)
0-375-50129-0

Life Itself: exploring the realm of the living cell
Boyce Rensberger
Oxford, 1996 (290p)
0195108744

Life's Other Secret: the new mathematics of the living world
Ian Stewart
John Wiley, 1998 (285p)
0471158453

Parasite Rex: Inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
Carl Zimmer
Free Press, 2000 (298p)
0684856387

Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters
Matt Ridley
Harper Collins, 1999 (344p)
0060194979

The Ice Finders: how a poet, a professor and a politician discovered the ice age
Edmond Blair Bolles
Counterpoint, 1999 (257p)
158430306

Darwin's Ghost: the Origin of Species updated
Steve Jones
Doubleday, 2000 (377p)
0385259034

The Nurture Assumption: why children turn out the way they do
Judith Rich Harris
Free Press, 1998 (462p)
0684844095

The Aquatic Ape
Elaine Morgan
Stein, 1982 (170p)
08128739

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Modern Library, 1996 (orig. 1844) (1462p)
0679601996

Why We Get Sick: the new science of Darwinian medicine
Randolph Nesse, George C. Williams
Times Books, 1995 (291p)
0812922247

Water
Marq DeVilliers
Stoddart, 1999 (413p)
0773731636

Fermat's Enigma: the quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem
Simon Singh
Walker, 1997 (315p)
0802713319

The Code Book: the evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography
Simon Singh
Doubleday, 1999 (402p)
0385495315

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
McClelland & Stewart, 1995 (748p)
0771060521

Pocket Ref: Glover, Thomas J.

Guns, Germs and Steel: the fates of human societies
Jared M. Diamond
Norton, 1997 (480p)
0393038912

The Complete Book of Sharpening
Leonard Lee

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of human nature
Matt Ridley
Maxwell MacMillan, 1994 (405p)
0026033402

House
Tracy Kidder
Houghton Miffton, 1985 (341p)
0395363179

Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his age
Dava Sobel
Walker & Co, 1995 (184p)
0802713122

Cats' Paws and Catapults: mechanical worlds of nature and people
Steven Vogel
Norton, 1998 (382p)
0393046419

The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
Longman Scientific, 1986 (332p)
0582446945

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Oxford, 1989 (352p)
0192172737

A Distant Mirror: the calamitous 14th century
Barbara Tuchman
Knopf, 1978 (677p)
0394400267

The Axemaker's Gift: a double-edged history of human culture
James Burke
Putman, 1995 (348p)
0399140883

History of Venice
John Julius Cooper Norwich, 2nd Viscount
Knopf, 1982 (673p)
0394524101

The Pencil: a history of design and circumstance
Henry Petroski
Knopf, 1990 (434p)
0394574222