{"id":2026,"date":"2007-12-02T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T09:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/02\/more-books-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T09:09:42","slug":"more-books-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/02\/more-books-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"More Books of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really want to turn this blog completely over to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/science_is_not_notable.php\">bitching about the poor representation of science<\/a> in &#8220;Year&#8217;s Best&#8221; lists of books, but it&#8217;s that time of year when every media outlet puts out their lists of favorite books, so it&#8217;s hard not to talk about it. Today&#8217;s list is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/artsandliving\/features\/2007\/holiday-guide\/gifts\/book-world-holiday-issue\/index.html\">the <cite>Washington Post<\/cite>&#8216;s Holiday Guide<\/a>, where they helpfully break their non-fiction list down into categories. By my count, there were 94 non-fiction books listed, divided among 11 categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arts: 7<\/li>\n<li>Biographies: 17<\/li>\n<li>Culture and Society: 9<\/li>\n<li>Current Events: 8<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Affairs: 9<\/li>\n<li>History: 23<\/li>\n<li>Literature: 2<\/li>\n<li>Memoirs: 9<\/li>\n<li>Religion: 2<\/li>\n<li>Science and Medicine: 5<\/li>\n<li>Travel: 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hey, science books! Well, science and medicine, anyway. Actually, mostly medicine:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>The Body Has a Mind of Its Own,<\/cite> by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee <\/li>\n<li><cite>Cheating Destiny,<\/cite> by James S. Hirsch<\/li>\n<li><cite>Musicophilia,<\/cite> by Oliver Sacks<\/li>\n<li><cite>Passions and Tempers,<\/cite> by Noga Arikha (Ecco)<\/li>\n<li><cite>Vaccine,<\/cite> by Arthur Allen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their list of biographies also includes an Einstein biography, though not the Isaacson one that got a lot of press.<\/p>\n<p>They could stand to have a wider range of stuff, but at least it&#8217;s a clear step up from the <cite>Times<\/cite>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really want to turn this blog completely over to bitching about the poor representation of science in &#8220;Year&#8217;s Best&#8221; lists of books, but it&#8217;s that time of year when every media outlet puts out their lists of favorite books, so it&#8217;s hard not to talk about it. Today&#8217;s list is from the Washington&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/02\/more-books-of-the-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Books of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}