Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation by George G. Szpiro

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Battle for North Carolina's Coast: Past History, Present Crisis and Future Vision by Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea V. Ames, Stephen J. Culver and David J. Mallinson

The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn

Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In by Brian X. Chen

Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology by Alexis Madrigal

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick

The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown

Playful Brain: The Suprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind by Richard Restak and Scott Kim

2010

The Best Science Books of 2010

How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond by John Powell

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife

Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century by Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog

On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work by Scott Huler

The Emperor's New Clothes: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch

Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles by Paul Halpern

The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg by Robert P. Crease

Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager