North Middlesex Regional High School
Honors Chemistry 2004-05 - Mr. Virzi
Independent Reading Assignment
Due Date: January 2, 2005
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This assignment will count as one test grade (100 test points).

Read TWO books from the following list (you may also pick out your own books to read, as long as you obtain my approval). For each book, (1) write a short summary for each chapter and (2) write a 300 - word (minimum) book review and post it on the Amazon.com web site for your two books. You may either post it using your real name, or a pseudonym.

SCIENCE READING BOOKS IN NMRHS LIBRARY

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg; NMRHS Library # 333.823 - HEI



The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat : The Story of the Penicillin Miracle (John MacRae Books), by Eric Lax; NMRHS Library # 615.329 - LAX



Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew: A Biography, by Dietrich Stoltzenberg ; NMRHS Library # B - HAB



A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, by Michael D. Gordin ; NMRHS Library # B - MEN



Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets, by Donald Goldsmith, Jon Lomberg ; NMRHS Library # 523 - GOL



Comet, by CARL SAGAN ; NMRHS Library # 523.6 - SAG



The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James D. Watson ; NMRHS Library # 547.5 - WAT (2 copies)



Edison : Inventing the Century, by Neil Baldwin ; NMRHS Library # B - EDI



Rocket Boys (aka October Sky), by Homer Hickam ; NMRHS Library # B - HIC



FORCE OF NATURE - Biography of Linus Pauling, by Thomas Hager ; NMRHS Library # B - PAU



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SCIENCE READING BOOKS NOT IN NMRHS LIBRARY

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver W. Sacks



Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA, by Robert Pollack



Ether Day : The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, by J.M. Fenster



Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester



Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table, by Richard Morris



The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story, by Leonard A. Cole



Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, by Nick Lane



The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg



Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage, by Kenneth S. Deffeyes



Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine M. Benyus



Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser



If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to Fermi's Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life, by Stephen Webb



What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Niles Eldredge



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