Los Angeles Valley College Library: PASO Grant-Funded Library Materials: Fun: Fiction, Memoir, Biography, Pop Culture, Literary Classics, & Narrative Non-Fiction

Pop Culture

Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium by Walter S. Judd; Graham A. Judd
Call Number: PR6039 .O32 Z6664 2017 (Stacks) -- Also available as an ebook (unlimited simultaneous users)
The Year of the Geek: 365 adventures from the sci-fi universe by James Clarke
Call Number: PN3433.5 .C553 2017 (Stacks)
Science Of Superheroes: The Secrets Behind Speed, Strength, Flight, Evolution, And More by Mark Brake; Jon Chase
Call Number: Q172.5 .P65 B73 2018 (Stacks)
Science Of Harry Potter: The Spellbinding Secrets Behind The Magic, Gadgets, Potions, And More! by Mark Brake; Jon Chase
Call Number: PR6068 .O93 Z558 2017 (Stacks)
The Secret Science of Superheroes by Mark Lorch et al.
Call Number: PN6714 .S43 2017 (Stacks)
Clockwork Futures: The Science Of Steampunk And The Reinvention Of The Modern World by Brandy Schillace
Call Number: Q126 .S35 2017 (Stacks)
Treknology: The Science Of Star Trek From Tricorders To Warp Drive by Ethan Siegel
Call Number: Q162 .S4854 2017 (Stacks)
The Star Trek Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by Paul Ruditis
Call Number: PN1992.8 .S74 R82 2016 (Stacks)
Science Of TV's The Big Bang Theory: Explanations Even Penny Would Understand: The Unauthorized Guide by Dave Zobel
Call Number: PN1992.77 .B485 Z63 2015 (Stacks)

Biography & Memoir

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians by Ian Stewart
Call Number: QA28 .S69 2017 (Stacks)
Code Girls: The Untold Story Of The American Women Code Breakers Of World War II. by Liza Mundy
Call Number: D810 .C88 M86 2017 (Stacks)
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman And John Wheeler Revolutionized Time And Reality by Paul Halpern
Call Number: QC174.12 .H347 2017 (Stacks)
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life And Times Of Enrico Fermi, Father Of The Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz
Call Number: QC16 .F46 S39 2017 (Stacks)
The Wizard And The Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists And Their Dueling Visions To Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
Call Number: GE56 .V64 M36 2018 (Stacks)
Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem by Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Call Number: QC174.17 .S9 N48 2017 (Stacks)
Engineers by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Call Number: TA139 .E44 2015 (Stacks)
Mauve: How One Man Invented A Color That Changed The World by Simon Garfield
Call Number: TP140 .P46 G37 2002 (Stacks)

Fiction

Cantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi
Call Number: Djerassi, C Can 1991 (Fiction)
The Bees: A Novel by Laline Paull
Call Number: Paul, L Bee 2015 (Fiction)

Literary Classics

Thoreau and the Language of Trees by Richard Higgins; Robert D. Richardson (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3057 .N3 H47 2017 (Stacks) -- also available as an ebook (unlimited simultaneous users)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Multidisciplinary

When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
Call Number: BF468 .P57 2018 (Stacks)
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit
Call Number: Q172.5 .E77 O34 2017 (Stacks)
Your Brain Is A Time Machine: The Neuroscience And Physics Of Time by Dean Buonomano
Call Number: QP376 .B8635 2017 (Stacks)
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding The Secrets Of The Air Around Us by Sam Kean
Call Number: QC161 .K43 2017 (Stacks)
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science by Eric Kandel
Call Number: N71 .K355 2018 (Stacks)
Art & Physics: Parallel Visions In Space, Time, And Light by Leonard Shlain
Call Number: N72 .S3 S56 2007 (Stacks)
Green Criminology: Crime, Justice, And The Environment by Michael J. Lynch et al.
Call Number: HV6401 .L963 2018 (Stacks)
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project by Tim Stroshane
Call Number: HD1694 .C2 S77 2017 (Stacks)
Beyond Bioethics: Toward A New Biopolitics by Osagie K. Obasogie; Marcy Darnovsky; Troy Duster; Patricia J. Williams
Call Number: JA80 .B47 2018 (Stacks)
Molecular Machines: A Materials Science Approach by Giovanni Zocchi
Call Number: TP248.25 .M645 Z63 2018 (Stacks)
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World by David Eagleman; Anthony Brandt
Call Number: BF408 .B73 2017b (Stacks)
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail And What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield; András Tilcsik
Call Number: HM701 .C54 2018 (Stacks)
Exact Thinking In Demented Times: The Vienna Circle And The Epic Quest For The Foundations Of Science by Karl Sigmund
Call Number: Q175 .S5554 2017 (Stacks)
Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, And Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize The World by Les Johnson
Call Number: TA455 .G65 J66 2018 (Stacks)
Stuff Matters: Exploring The Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
Call Number: TA403.2 .M56 2015 (Stacks)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Astronomy & Astrophysics

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Call Number: TL789.85 .H34 A3 2015 (Stacks)
International Space Station: Architecture Beyond Earth by David Nixon
Call Number: TL797 .N59 2016 (Stacks)
Outposts On The Frontier: A Fifty-Year History Of Space Stations by Jay M. Chladek
Call Number: TL797 .C485 2017 (Stacks) -- also available as an ebook (unlimited simultaneous users)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Biology -- Macro (including General Biology, Zoology, Botany, Entomology, Natural History, & Evolution)

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life Of Beavers And Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
Call Number: QL737 .R632 G64 2018 (Stacks)
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats by Maryn McKenna
Call Number: SF98 .A5 M35 2017 (Stacks)
Does It Fart?: the definitive field guide to animal flatulence by Nick Caruso; Dani Rabaiotti; Ethan Kocak (Illustrator)
Call Number: QL780 .C37 2018 (Stacks)
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures by Nicholas Pyenson
Call Number: QL737 .C4 P94 2018 (Stacks)
American Wolf: A True Story Of Survival And Obsession In The West by Nate Blakeslee
Call Number: QL737 .C22 B54284 2017 (Stacks)
The Odyssey of KP2 by Terrie M. Williams
Call Number: QL737 .P64 W55 2013 (Stacks) -- also available (2012 version) as an ebook (1 user)
Publication Date: 2013
The Songs of Trees: stories from nature's great connectors by David George Haskell
Call Number: QH541.5 .F6 H375 2018 (Stacks)
Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham
Call Number: SD383 .P367 2003 (Stacks)
Urban Forests: A Natural History Of Trees And People In The American Cityscape by Jill Jonnes
Call Number: SB435.5 .J66 2017 (Stacks)
Cane Toad Wars by Rick Shine
Call Number: QL668 .E227 S55 2018 (Stacks)
The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister
Call Number: QL533 .M38 2017 (Stacks)
Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators And The Fight To Save Them by Paige Embry
Call Number: QL567.1 .A1 E43 2018 (Stacks)
Coyote America: A Natural And Supernatural History. by Dan Flores
Call Number: QL737 .C22 F56 2017 (Stacks) -- also available (2016 version) as an ebook (1 user)
Luminous Creatures: The History And Science Of Light Production In Living Organisms by Michel Anctil
Call Number: QH641 .A53 2018 (Stacks)
Plants That Kill: A Natural History Of The World's Most Poisonous Plants by Elizabeth A. Dauncey; Sonny Larsson
Call Number: QK100 .A1 D38 2018 (Stacks)
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, And Other Tales From The Wild Side Of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke
Call Number: QL50 .C76 2018 (Stacks)
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
Call Number: QL678.52 .N53 2018 (Stacks)
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
Call Number: QL698.9 .W45 2000 (Stacks)
A Charm Of Goldfinches And Other Wild Gatherings: Quirky Collective Nouns Of The Animal Kingdom by Matt Sewell
Call Number: QL355 .S49 2017 (Stacks)
Birdnote: Chirps, Quirks, And Stories Of 100 Birds From The Popular Public Radio Show by Ellen Blackstone (Editor)
Call Number: QL698.5 .B54 2018 (Stacks)
The Inner Life Of Animals: Love, Grief, And Compassion: Surprising Observations Of A Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
Call Number: QL785 .W6413 2017 (Stacks)
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
Call Number: GN409 .S38 2018 (Stacks) -- also available (2017 version) as an ebook (unlimited simultaneous users)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Biology -- Micro (including Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, & Neuroscience)

The Nature Fix: why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative by Florence Williams
Call Number: BF353.5 .N37 W55 2018 (Stacks)
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
Call Number: QP411 .S23 2017 (Stacks)
A Crack in Creation: gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna; Samuel H. Sternberg
Call Number: QH440 .D68 2017 (Stacks)
Behave: The Biology Of Humans At Our Best And Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
Call Number: QP351 .S27 2017 (Stacks) -- also available as an ebook (1 user)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Biomedicine (including Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Forensics, Kinesiology, & Health

Why You Eat What You Eat: the science behind our relationship with food by Rachel Herz
Call Number: QP136 .H47 2018 (Stacks)
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, And Wastes Billions by Richard Harris
Call Number: R852 .H37 2018 (Stacks)
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine by William Rosen
Call Number: RM409 .R67 2018 (Stacks)
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by Robert Dunn
Call Number: QP111.4 .D86 2015 (Stacks)
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris
Call Number: RD598 .M5795 2018 (Stacks)
Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia by Henry Jay Przybylo
Call Number: RD80.62 .P79 2018 (Stacks)
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang; Nate Pedersen
Call Number: R730 .K36 2017 (Stacks)
The sick rose, or, Disease and the art of medical illustration by Richard Barnett
Call Number: R836 .B37 2014 (Stacks)
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik; Monica Murphy
Call Number: RC148 .W37 2013 (Stacks)
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
Call Number: RC140.5 .Q36 2014 (Stacks)
Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves by Menno Schilthuizen
Call Number: QL876 .S35 2015 (Stacks)
Body Builders: Inside The Science Of The Engineered Human by Adam Piore
Call Number: TA164 .P56 2017 (Stacks)
Science Of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, And Why It Matters by Wallace Mendelson
Call Number: QP425 .M46 2017 (Stacks)
Spark Of Life: Electricity In The Human Body by Frances Ashcroft
Call Number: QP341 .A77 2013 (Stacks)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Chemistry

The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
Call Number: QD39 F2 2007 (Stacks) -- also available (1997 reprint) as an ebook (unlimited simultaneous users)
Publication Date: Originally published in 1861

Narrative Non-Fiction: Computer Science

AIQ: How People And Machines Are Smarter Together by Nick Polson; James Scott
Call Number: TA167 .P65 2018 (Stacks)
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do by Edward Tenner
Call Number: T58.8 .T45 2018 (Stacks)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Earth Science

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Call Number: TD171.75 .D73 2017 (Stacks) -- Also available as an ebook (1 user)
Never Out of Season: how having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future by Robert Dunn
Call Number: TX353 .D86 2017 (Stacks)
Tomatoland: From Harvest of Shame to Harvest of Hope by Barry Estabrook
Call Number: SB349 .E78 2018 (Stacks)
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science by Philippe Squarzoni
Call Number: QC903 .S6813 2014 (Graphic Novels)
The Science of Open Spaces by Charles G. Curtin
Call Number: QH541.15 .L35 C87 2015 (Stacks) -- also available as an ebook (unlimited simultaneous users)
Fire in California's Ecosystems by Edited by Jan W. van Wagtendonk et al.
Call Number: QH105 .C2 F57 2018 (Stacks) -- also available as an ebook (1 user)
Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas And The Fight To Save California's Shore by Thomas J. Osborne
Call Number: HT393 .C2 O83 2018 (Stacks)
California Greenin`: How The Golden State Became An Environmental Leader by David Vogel
Call Number: GE315 .C2 V64 2018 (Stacks) -- also available as an ebook (1 user)
Land On Fire: The New Reality Of Wildfire In The West by Gary Ferguson
Call Number: SD421.32 .W47 F47 2017 (Stacks)
Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (And What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones
Call Number: GB5014 .J66 2018 (Stacks)
Publication Date: 2018
A Wilder Time: Notes From A Geologist At The Edge Of The Greenland Ice by William E. Glassley
Call Number: QE70 .G53 2018 (Stacks)
Ancient Landscapes Of Western North America: A Geologic History With Paleogeographic Maps by Ronald C. Blakey; Wayne Ranney
Call Number: QE626 .B57 2018 (Stacks)
Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour Of North America's Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, And Peaks by Mary Caperton Morton
Call Number: QE71 .M67 2017 (Stacks)
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them by Donald R. Prothero
Call Number: QE31 .P76 2018 (Stacks)
Seeds Of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs by Mark Lynas
Call Number: TP248.65 .F66 L96 2018 (Stacks)
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
Call Number: RA591 .C53 2018 (Stacks)
The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs by Peter Wohlleben
Call Number: QC981.2 .W6413 2018 (Stacks)
Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story Of The Melting North by Mark C. Serreze
Call Number: QC994.8 .S4754 2018 (Stacks)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Engineering

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
Call Number: TA19 .W56 2018 (Stacks)
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal
Call Number: TA633 .A36 2018 (Stacks)
Behemoth: A History Of The Factory And The Making Of The Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman
Call Number: HD2351 .F68 2018 (Stacks)
The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And The World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
Call Number: TA1215 .L47 2016 (Stacks)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Mathematics

Beauty Of Numbers In Nature: Mathematical Patterns And Principles From The Natural World by Ian Stewart
Call Number: Q172.5 .C45 S73 2017 (Stacks)
Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers by Vicky Neale
Call Number: QA246 .N43 2017 (Stacks)
Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations by Brian Hayes
Call Number: QA93 .H3586 2017 (Stacks)
Lost In Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. by Sabine Hossenfelder
Call Number: QC20.6 .H67 2018 (Stacks)
Enlightening Symbols: A Short History Of Mathematical Notation And Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur
Call Number: QA41 .M39 2016 (Stacks)
Weird Math: A Teenage Genius & His Teacher Reveal The Strange Connections Between Math & Everyday Life by David Darling; Agnijo Banerjee
Call Number: QA93 .D285 2018 (Stacks)
The Mathematics Lover’s Companion: Masterpieces for Everyone by Edward R. Scheinerman
Call Number: QA43 .S337 2017 (Stacks)

Narrative Non-Fiction: Physics

The Spinning Magnet: The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It by Alanna Mitchell
Call Number: QC760 .M5425 2018 (Stacks)
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through The Strange (And Impossibly Small) World Of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth
Call Number: QC793.26 .B747 2018 (Stacks)
Who Cares About Particle Physics?: Making Sense Of The Higgs Boson, The Large Hadron Collider And CERN by Pauline Gagnon
Call Number: QC793.2 .G34 2018 (Stacks)
Lost In Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. by Sabine Hossenfelder
Call Number: QC20.6 .H67 2018 (Stacks)
The Ascent Of Gravity: The Quest To Understand The Force That Explains Everything by Marcus Chown
Call Number: QC178 .C456 2017 (Stacks)
Do Colors Exist?: And Other Profound Physics Questions by Seth Stannard Cottrell
Call Number: QC24.5 .C68 2018 (Stacks)
The Philosophy of Physics by Dean Rickles
Call Number: QC6 .R4635 2016 (Stacks)