Books - Scientific life & career advice, popular books
This section of the graduate reading room contains both popular science books as well as books giving advice on scientific life. Also, have a look at the monthly magazines Laborjournal (German) and Lab Times (English), both available in the reading room. We also recommend the BBC Radio's Discovery and The Life Scientific as well as the Nature Podcast.
Books from this section are color coded in (purple).
The life scientific and career advice
| Advice To A Young Scientist | 11 L & C | P. B. Medawar | 1981 |
| Don't be such a Scientist | 7 L & C | Olson | 2009 |
| Philosophy of Science, A very short introduction | Samir Okasha | 2002 | |
| Art and Politics of Science | Harold Varmus | 2010 | |
| Art of Scientific Investigation | 5 L & C | W. I. Beveridge | 2004 |
| Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize (review) | 15 L & C | Peter Doherty | 2008 |
| Wissenschafts-Journalismus | 9 L & C | Göpfert | 1996 |
| Medienkompetenz | 8 L & C | Göpfert, Lange | 2006 |
| Mistakes were made (but not by me) (review) | 24 L & C | Tavris, Aronson | 2007 |
| Bad Pharma | Ben Goldacre | 2013 | |
| The Sport Genes, Talent, Practice, and the truth about success | 27 L & C | David Epstein | 2013 |
| The Craft of Research | 28 L & C | Booth, Colomb, Williams | 2008 |
| Failure: Why science is so successful | 33 L & C | Stuart Firestein | 2016 |
| The sence of style: The thinking person's guide to writing in the 21th century | 36 L & C | Steven Pinker | 2014 |
| Ignorance: How it drives science | 34 L & C | Stuart Firestein | 2012 |
| As the future catches you | 45 L& C | Juan Enriquez | 2001 |
Popular science books
| Bad Science | 3 L & C | Ben Goldacre | 2008 | |
| Biochemists' Songbook | 18 L & C | Baum | 1995 | |
| Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 | 21 L & C | Ariely, Folger (ed.) | 2012 | |
| Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 | Mukherjee,.. (ed.) | 2013 | ||
| Eighth Day of Creation | 1 L & C | Horace F. Judson | 1996 | |
| Greatest Show on Earth | 6 L & C | Richard Dawkins | 2010 | |
| Machinery of Life | 2 L & C | Goodsell | 2010 | |
| Magic of Reality | 13 L & C | Richard Dawkins | 2012 | |
| Power, sex and suicide-mitochondria & the meaning of life | 16 L & C | Nick Lane | 2006 | |
| Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature | 12 L & C | Matt Ridley | 1994 | |
| Selfish Gene | 17 L & C | Richard Dawkins | 2006 | |
| What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology | 4 L & C | Addy Pross | 2012 | |
| Y: The Descent of Men | 14 L & C | Steve Jones | 2003 | |
| Genome | 10 L & C | Matt Ridley | 2006 | |
| The Agile Gene: How Nature turns on Nurture | 23 L & C | Matt Ridley | 2003 | |
| Wetware A computer in every living cell | 22 L & C | Dennis Bray | 2009 | |
| Biology - A global Approach- 10th | 20 L & C | Cambell, Reece, Urry, Cain, Wasserman | 2015 | |
| The manga guide to Biochemistry | 25 L & C | Masaharu Takemura | 2009 | |
| Pandemic: tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond | 26 L & C | Sonia Shah | 2017 | |
| The doctor's plague: Germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis | 29 L & C | Sherwin B. Nuland | 2004 | |
| The vital question: Why is life the way it is? | 30 L & C | Nick Lane | 2016 | |
| The fever | 31 L & C | Sonia Shah | 2010 | |
| The Gene: An intimate history | 32 L & C | Siddhartha Mukherjee | 2016 | |
| The Accidental species: Misunderstandings of human evolution | 35 L & C | Henry Gee | 2013 | |
| The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural History | 37 L & C | Elizabeth Kolbert | 2014 | |
| Hidden Worlds: Looking through a scientist's Microscope | 38 L & C | Stephen Kramer | 2003 | |
| The science of cooking | 39 L & C | Dr. Stuard Farrimond | 2017 | |
| Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues | 40 L & C | Martin J. Blaser | 2015 | |
| The Scars of Evolution | 41 L & C | Elaine Morgan | 1994 | |
| A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing | 42 L & C | Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg | 2018 | |
| Natura obscura | 43 L & C | Kurt M.Fuglister & Martin Hicklin & Pascal Maser | 2017 | |
| Vitamania | 44 L & C | Catherine Price | 2015 | |
| The minds machine : foundation of brain behavior | 46 L & C | Neil V.Watson & S.Marc Breedlove | 2016 | |