{"id":1209,"date":"2016-12-16T22:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:14:57","slug":"best-science-books-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2016\/12\/16\/best-science-books-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Science Books of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something to read over break? Looking for gift ideas for the science nerds in your life? Well, you&#8217;re in luck. It&#8217;s the end of the year, which means everyone has a list of their picks for the best science books of the year. Here are some of my favorite lists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/12\/07\/best-science-books-2016\/\">The Greatest Science Books of 2016<\/a> (Brain Pickings)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/the-best-science-books-of-2016\/\">The Best Science Books of 2016<\/a> (Science Friday)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/best-books-about-science-2016-180961274\/\">The Best Books About Science of 2016<\/a> (Smithsonian Magazine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And many scientific journals and magazines regularly publish book reviews. Here are some of the most popular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/department\/recommendations\/\">Recommended<\/a> (Scientific American)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sciencemag.org\/books\/\">Books, et al.<\/a> (Science)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tags\/book-reviews\">Book Reviews<\/a> (Popular Science)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before you go out and buy anything, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/search.do?vid=01IOWA\">check the library catalog<\/a> to see if we have it. If we don&#8217;t (and you think we should) you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sciences\/recommend\/\">recommend a purchase<\/a> and we&#8217;ll add it to our collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something to read over break? Looking for gift ideas for the science nerds in your life? Well, you&#8217;re in luck. It&#8217;s the end of the year, which means everyone has a list of their picks for the best science books of the year. Here are some of my favorite lists: The Greatest Science<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2016\/12\/16\/best-science-books-of-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Best Science Books of 2016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42],"syndication":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}