Books

Phi Beta Kappa Award (awards)

This award was given to 49 books.


  1. Your Inner Fish

    A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

    by Neil Shubin

    Year: 2008
    Category: Science
  2. The Making of the Fittest

    DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

    by Sean B. Carroll

    Year: 2007
    Category: Science
  3. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

    How Humans Took Control of Climate

    by W. F. Ruddiman

    Year: 2006
    Category: Science
  4. Isaac Newton

    by James Gleick

    Year: 2004
    Category: Science
  5. The Two-Mile Time Machine

    Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

    by Richard B. Alley

    Year: 2001
    Category: Science
  6. Cradle of Life

    The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils

    by J. William Schopf

    Year: 2000
    Category: Science
  7. The Elegant Universe

    Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

    by Brian Greene

    Year: 1999
    Category: Science
  8. Guns, Germs, and Steel

    The Fates of Human Societies

    by Jared Diamond

    Year: 1997
    Category: Science
  9. Where Does the Weirdness Go?

    Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, but Not As Strange As You Think

    by David Lindley

    Year: 1996
    Category: Science
  10. Black Holes and Time Warps

    Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

    by Kip S. Thorne

    Year: 1994
    Category: Science
  11. Living Within Limits

    by Garrett James Hardin

    Year: 1993
    Category: Science
  12. Wonderful Life

    The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

    by Stephen Jay Gould

    Year: 1990
    Category: Science
  13. Infinite in All Directions

    Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April-November 1985

    by Freeman Dyson

    Year: 1988
    Category: Science
  14. Frozen Star. of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars

    by George Greenstein

    Year: 1984
    Category: Science
  15. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

    Further Reflections in Natural History

    by Stephen Jay Gould

    Year: 1983
    Category: Science
  16. Emerging Cosmology

    by Alfred Charles Bernard, Sir Lovell

    Year: 1982
    Category: Science
  17. Cosmic Dawn

    The Origins of Matter and Life

    by Eric Chaisson

    Year: 1981
    Category: Science
  18. Image of Eternity

    by David Allen Park

    Year: 1980
    Category: Science
  19. The Closing Circle

    Nature, Man, & Technology

    by Barry Commoner

    Year: 1972
    Category: Science
  20. Vitamin C Common Cold

    by Linus Pauling

    Year: 1971
    Category: Science
  21. Life and Death of the Salt Marsh

    by John Teal, Mildred Teal

    Year: 1970
    Category: Science
  22. Antibodies and immunity

    by G. J. V. Nossal

    Year: 1969
    Category: Science
  23. Modern genetics

    by Haig P Papazian

    Year: 1967
    Category: Science
  24. Man Adapting

    by René J. Dubos

    Year: 1966
    Category: Science
  25. Origin of Adaptations

    by Verne Grant

    Year: 1964
    Category: Science
  26. The Unseen World

    by René J. Dubos

    Year: 1963
    Category: Science
  27. The world of ice

    by James Lindsay, Dyson

    Year: 1962
    Category: Science
  28. Communication Among Social Bees Harvard Books in Biology 2

    by Martin Lindauer

    Year: 1961
    Category: Science
  29. The Forest and the Sea

    A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Man

    by Marston Bates

    Year: 1960
    Category: Science
  30. Darwin's Century

    by Loren C. Eiseley

    Year: 1959
    Category: Science

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