{"id":3469,"date":"2012-01-19T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/01\/19\/if-you-had-500-what-science-books-would-you-buy-for-a-high-school-library\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:25:05","slug":"if-you-had-500-what-science-books-would-you-buy-for-a-high-school-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/01\/19\/if-you-had-500-what-science-books-would-you-buy-for-a-high-school-library\/","title":{"rendered":"If you had $500, what science books would you buy for a high school library?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThat&#8217;s the question Robert left <a href=\"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2012\/01\/kraken-wendy-williams\/#comment-7156\">on my review of <cite>Kraken<\/cite><\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHere\u2019s a challenge for you, if you want it. Suppose you had $500 to spend on science books for a high school library, what would you buy? I\u2019ve got a small budget, so I want to get the most bang of the buck\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhich books I would recommend? Ben Goldacre&#8217;s <cite>Bad Science<\/cite> to get some inoculation against quackery. Any of Richard Fortey&#8217;s books on evolution and geology, particularly <cite>Life<\/cite> and <cite>The Earth<\/cite>, but also <cite>Trilobite<\/cite>, Chad Orzel&#8217;s <cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite> which is a popular science book on quantum physics, any of Ian Stewart&#8217;s or Martin Gardner&#8217;s   books of mathematical puzzles, Gabrielle Walker&#8217;s <cite>Snowball Earth<\/cite> just to show how cool Earth&#8217;s long prehistory has been, any of Richard Dawkin&#8217;s recent books in which he doesn&#8217;t bang on about religion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhich books would you recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question Robert left on my review of Kraken: Here\u2019s a challenge for you, if you want it. Suppose you had $500 to spend on science books for a high school library, what would you buy? I\u2019ve got a small budget, so I want to get the most bang of the buck Which books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}