In truth, there's nothing you have to do to take the challenge except start reading. Stuck for ideas about what books to read? Write to us and we'll help you identify some books that will match your interests. Spread the scienticity and tell other people about the Science Book Challenge.Use the book-note form or the comment form to get in touch with us.

Get your book note to us and we'll post it with the other notes in our Book Note section.

Don't worry if you find that you've read a book someone else has also read we welcome multiple notes on one title.

You might like to read our Book-note ratings for ideas about how to evaluate your books we include ratings with every book note. You can read some of the existing Book Notes for ideas. Tell us what you'd tell a friend if you wanted to convince your friend to read it-or avoid it.

After you've read a book, write a short note about it giving your opinions of the book.

We take a very broad view of what makes for interesting and informative science reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history. Your books might be popularizations of science, they might be histories, they might be biographies, they might be anthologies they can be recent titles or older books, from the bookstore or your local library. Your books should have something to do with science, scientists, how science operates, or the relationship of science with our culture.

Read at least three nonfiction books in 2011 related to the theme 'Science & Culture'.

We're also hoping to reorganize the Book Notes to make it easier to browse and more useful to our readers.

This year we're looking forward to more participation, more book notes, and some special incentives for challengers. We also want to help potential readers find books they will enjoy and profit from reading that's why we publish our Book Notes, which are written mostly by Science-Book Challengers.īy taking the challenge and contributing your book notes to our growing and increasingly valuable collection, you're helping would-be science-book readers identify books they'd like to read. We want to encourage people to read about science with this challenge. Reading about science-by which we mean to include engineering, mathematics, and technology, too-is fun and rewarding.

The Science Book Challenge is easy as pi: read 3 (or 3.14!) science books during 2011, then tell us and others about the books you've read and help spread science literacy. This is our fourth annual challenge, bigger and better than ever!! Please use this image in your own blog to publicize the 2011 Science Book Challenge. The image is a photograph of the DNA from a mashed-up strawberry (red at bottom) being drawn up a propanol column, captured by Steve Jurvetson ( source) used under Creative Commons License.

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