| Anything by Steven Jay Gould, great author talks about Evolutionary Biology mainly. I have read all his books and I am trying to think what was the best especially for high school. Maybe "Dinosaur in a Haystack" I will try to remember to check when I get home tonight. He is a Harvard Professor and the director of the Natural History Museum in NYC. He also makes his research interesting and easily understood. He loves Baseball. Although he is kind of blacklisted my many Biologists as being to mainstream. I will let you decide for your self.
2 books by Richard Feynman "Surely your joking, Mr. Feynman" and "The pleasure of finding things out". This guy was amazing. Whenever I need inspiration for my research I reread one of these. He was a Nobel Prize winning physist and worked on the atomic bomb and eventually set up in Cal Poly. Plus you will laugh out loud reading them. He will become one of the people you would want to have dinner with if you could.
"A short History of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson. I know he is the guys that wrote walk in the Woods and other travel books but he must have done his Homework cause this is a great read and very informative. As a Biochemist and physiologist he is correct on a bunch of very new discoveries. I don’t know I remember being surprised that he could know that ))
I would say these books are all easily understandable by the layman with the Gould stuff being the heaviest. I taught High school Biology, Chemistry and Physics before quitting and going to Grad school and I think all of them would be appropriate.
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