How the World Works

Books about science.

Barnard, Bryn. – Dangerous planet : natural disasters that changed history

Boese, Alex. – The museum of hoaxes : a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions, and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the new millennium

Brown, Augustus. – Why pandas do handstands : and other curious truths about animals

McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958- – Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium

Murphy, Jim, 1947- – An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793

Newquist, H. P. (Harvey P.) – The great brain book : an inside look at the inside of your head

Padel, Ruth, 1946- – Tigers in red weather : a quest for the last wild tigers

Sloan, Christopher. – Bury the dead : tombs, corpses, mummies, skeletons, & rituals

Sullivan, Robert, 1963- – Rats : observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants

Sussman, Art, 1944- – Dr. Art's guide to science : connecting atoms, galaxies, and everything in between