BMS STEM Nonfiction Catalogue 2016-2017
1. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 
4. 
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
by:
Georgia Bragg
4.08 avg rating — 6,530 ratings 5. 
The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 Tales of Invention and Discovery to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
by:
Rick Beyer
3.89 avg rating — 150 ratings 
7. 
Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
8. 
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by:
Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,820 ratings 9. 
More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry Based Science Teaching 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
10. 
Even More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
10. 
Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets (Helix Book)
by:
John S. Lewis
4.13 avg rating — 277 ratings 
13. 
Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
16. 
The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity
by:
Elizabeth Rusch
4.21 avg rating — 324 ratings 16. 
The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
by:
Anita Silvey
3.86 avg rating — 173 ratings 18. 
Edge of the Universe A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond
by:
Paul Halpern
3.84 avg rating — 245 ratings 19. 
Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb
by:
Jim Ottaviani
3.49 avg rating — 304 ratings 
21. 
The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists
by:
Sean Connolly
4.03 avg rating — 130 ratings 
25. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 26. 
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by:
David Bodanis
4.10 avg rating — 8,263 ratings 
28. 
Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard 4.23 avg rating — 239 ratings
34. 
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America
by:
James M. Deem
3.91 avg rating — 110 ratings 35. 
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
by:
Michael J. Fox
3.82 avg rating — 25,015 ratings 36. 
Wild Horse Scientists (Scientists in the Field Series)
by:
Kay Frydenborg
3.97 avg rating — 111 ratings 
38. 
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
by:
John Fleischman
3.66 avg rating — 3,976 ratings 39. 
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
by:
Phillip Hoose
3.91 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 40. 
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
by:
Lawrence Anthony
4.44 avg rating — 3,850 ratings 41. 
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
by:
Sy Montgomery
4.07 avg rating — 3,934 ratings 42. 
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
by:
Jim Murphy
3.93 avg rating — 802 ratings 
44. 
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
by:
Ken Silverstein
3.73 avg rating — 2,039 ratings 
47. 
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.13 avg rating — 20,578 ratings 48. 
49. 
Stronger Than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletproof Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope
by:
Bridget Heos
3.76 avg rating — 173 ratings 50. 
51. 
Science Warriors: The Battle Against Invasive Species (Scientists in the Field Series) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
52. 
Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution
by:
Laurence Pringle
3.81 avg rating — 97 ratings 53. 
The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery
by:
Sandra Markle
4.11 avg rating — 269 ratings 
55. 
Gut-Eating Bugs: Maggots Reveal the Time of Death! (24/7: Science Behind the Scenes: Forensics)
by:
Danielle Denega
3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings 
57. 
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
by:
Sally M. Walker
3.95 avg rating — 1,326 ratings 58. 
59. 
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
by:
James M. Deem
3.84 avg rating — 243 ratings 60. 
Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out
by:
Kate Evans
3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings 61. 
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series) 3.97 avg rating — 423 ratings
64. 
Power: Ethical Debates About Resources and the Environment
by:
Kate Ravilious
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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72. 
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever 4.20 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
74. 
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
by:
Claire A. Nivola
4.08 avg rating — 1,067 ratings 
77. 
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1)
by:
Jim Ottaviani
3.84 avg rating — 7,273 ratings 78. 
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
by:
Jim Murphy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 457 ratings 79. 
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors 4.21 avg rating — 419 ratings
80. 
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
by:
Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings 81. 
82. 
Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
by:
Jill Rubalcaba
3.73 avg rating — 202 ratings 
84. 
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
by:
John Gribbin
4.11 avg rating — 1,225 ratings 85. 
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
by:
Manjit Kumar
4.27 avg rating — 10,347 ratings 86. 
88. 
Pythagoras: Pioneering Mathematician And Musical Theorist of Ancient Greece 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
90. 
Explore Spring!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring
by:
Lauri Berkenkamp
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings 
92. 
The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
by:
Andrew C. Revkin
3.19 avg rating — 32 ratings 
96. 
The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An All-New Collection of the World's Unlikeliest Research
by:
Marc Abrahams
3.54 avg rating — 70 ratings 97. 
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating — 21,371 ratings 98. 
101 Things You Wish You'd Invented and Some You Wish No One Had
by:
Richard Horne
3.50 avg rating — 40 ratings 
