Big science is the term given to those global, high-tech, multilaboratory, billion-dollar research enterprises that tackle the very frontiers of scientific knowledge. Two of the largest Big Science initiatives ever undertaken are the Human Genome Project and the construction of the CERN nuclear research particle accelerator. While the advanced research flows from these projects into scientific journals and technical papers, the basic concepts and practical implications are finding their way into popular science literature, as [this] list...proves.~Gregg Sapp, "Best Sci-Tech Books 2010"
AGRICULTURE
The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Dickson Despommier
ANTHROPOLOGY
Pandora's Seed: The Unforseen Cost of Civilization by Spencer Wells
BIOGRAPHY
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
CHEMISTRY
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
COSMOLOGY
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
EARTH SCIENCES
How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate by Jeff Goodell
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
The Story of Stuff: How our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health--and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard with Ariane Conrad
HEALTH SCIENCE
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine by Francis S. Collins
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The Science of Liberty by Timothy Ferris
MATHEMATICS
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
NATURAL HISTORY
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
OCEANOGRAPHY
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
PSYCHOLOGY
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
SPACE SCIENCES
Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
ZOOLOGY
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
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