Best Science Books 2008: Seed Magazine

A very nice list from Seed. There are some really interesting books here that I haven't seen on other lists.

• Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure By Paul A. Offit
  
  
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex By Mary Roach
  
  
• Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It By Elizabeth Royte
  
  
• Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain By Kirsten Menger-Anderson
  
  
• The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
  
  
• Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet By Oliver Morton
  
  
• The Endless City Edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
  
  
• The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming By Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King
  
  
• Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique By Michael S. Gazzaniga
  
  
• Icarus at the Edge of Time By Brian Greene
  
  
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto By Michael Pollan
  
  
• The Invention of Air: A Study of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America By Steven Johnson
  
  
• Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was By Mac Montandon
  
  
• The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces By Frank Wilczek
  
  
• The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe By Chris Impey
  
  
• The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom By Simon Winchester
  
  
• Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life By Carl Zimmer
  
  
• Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them By David Anderegg
  
  
• The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life By Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot
  
  
• On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science By Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides
  
  
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions By Dan Ariely
  
  
• Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food By Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak
  
  
• The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA By Mark Schultz, Illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon
  
  
• The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strageness of Insect Societies By Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson
  
  
• The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature By Daniel J. Levitin