Best Science Books 2008: The Economist

Here are some books from the business, history and science categories of The Economist's list.

• The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford
  
  
• Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott
  
  
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
  
  
• American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose
  
  
• The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
  
  
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics edited by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader
  
  
• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
  
  
• The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Duelling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew Goodman
  
  
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
  
  
• Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly
  
  
• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh