Marcy's Favorite Science & Math books
2. 
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by:
Eugenia Cheng
3.63 avg rating — 1,954 ratings 3. 
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc 3.72 avg rating — 4,839 ratings
4. 
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
by:
Theo Colborn
4.11 avg rating — 861 ratings 5. 
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment 4.21 avg rating — 836 ratings
6. 
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics
by:
Vandana Shiva
4.11 avg rating — 147 ratings 7. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,263 ratings 8. 
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by:
Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating — 210,893 ratings 9. 
Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans
by:
Annu Jalais
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings 
12. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings 13. 
The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World
by:
Julie Hill
3.29 avg rating — 78 ratings 14. 
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste
by:
Diane Coffey
4.33 avg rating — 349 ratings 15. 
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
by:
Josh Tickell
4.39 avg rating — 996 ratings 
17. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,764 ratings 18. 
The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
by:
Peter M. Senge
3.84 avg rating — 518 ratings 19. 
This Book Was a Tree: Ideas, Adventures, and Inspiration for Rediscovering the Natural World 3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
22. 
Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
by:
Pranay Lal
4.53 avg rating — 588 ratings 23. 
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
by:
Kristin Ohlson
4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 24. 
Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future
by:
Harini Nagendra
4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings 
27. 
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by:
Vandana Shiva
3.93 avg rating — 419 ratings 
31. 
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by:
Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings 32. 
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
3.89 avg rating — 4,326 ratings 
34. 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings 
37. 
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by:
Vandana Shiva
4.09 avg rating — 527 ratings 38. 
39. 
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
by:
Vandana Shiva
4.10 avg rating — 1,161 ratings 40. 
Not in My Backyard: Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities
by:
Sunita Narain
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 41. 
Of Poverty and Plastic (OIP): Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
by:
Kaveri Gill
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 
43. 
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
by:
Eileen Welsome
4.27 avg rating — 594 ratings 
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