I. Amir D. Aczel. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity. Pocketbooks, 2001. (A $10.50)

1. Gray, Quincy G.

2. Madriles, Louisa

3. _______________________________________

4. _______________________________________

II. Amir D. Aczel. The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World. Harvest Books, 2002. (A $10.40)

1. Escajeda, Myrna

2. Urias, Rodolfo E.

3. Chavando, Gabriel

4. Correa, Daniel

III. Bella Bathurst. The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. Harper Perennial, 2000. (H $4.95)

1. Meza, Ahmed

2. Villamar, Alex

3. De Regules, Karl-Lutz

4. Fragoso, Rene

IV. David Berlinski. The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World. Harcourt, 1999. (D $4.98)

1. Aragon, Julia

2. Aldana, Juan Ramon

3. Alba, Omar

4. _______________________________________

V. Clark Blaise. Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000. (D $4.98)

1. Serna, Alexis

2. Varela, Gerardo

3. _______________________________________

4. _______________________________________

VI. Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. Houghton-Mifflin, 1962. (A $11.20).

1. Calanche, Vanessa

2. Romero, Rebeca

3. Peralta, Karina

4. _______________________________________

VII. Adrian Desmond. Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Perseus, 1997. (D $6.98, H $4.95)

This book is longer than the other books on the list – it has about 650 pages.

1. Frausto, Ody

2. Crinzi, Alessandro

3. Avitia, Erika

4. Castillo, Perla

VIII. Apostolos Doxiadis. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture. Bloomsbury, 2000 (D $2.98)

1. _______________________________________

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________

4. _______________________________________

IX. David Ewing Duncan. Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year. Bard Books, 1999. (H $3.95)

1. Romero, Sonia

2. Salas, Jose

3. Luera, Julissa

4. Reyes, Claudia

X. Philip L. Fradkin. Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault. University of California Press, 1999. (D $4.98)

1. Gonzalez, Hector

2. Orozco, Manuel O.

3. Garcia, Daisy

4. Ambriz, Ulises

XI. Robert Friedel. Zipper – An Exploration in Novelty. Norton, 1994. (D 4.98)

1. Munoz, Javier

2. Pena, Julian

3. Granados, Christopher

4. _______________________________________

XII. Gina Kolata. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1999. (A $4.98)

1. Gant, Vince

2. Diaz, Michelle

3. Caballero, Jessica

4. Diaz, Manny

XIII. Thomas S. Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1996. (A $9.60)

This book develops a theory of scientific revolutions – it might be harder to read than most of the other books.

1. Lyons, Paul A.

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________

4. _______________________________________

XIV. Scott McCartney. Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer. Walker, 1999. (D $5.98)

1. Adan, Batista

2. Luna, Steve

3. Quintana, Miguel

4. _______________________________________

XV. Robert P. Moses and Charles Cobb, Jr. Radical Equations. Beacon Press, 2002. (A $11.20)

1. Duran, Ricardo

2. Gabaldon, Ricardo

3. _______________________________________

4. _______________________________________

XVI. Ivars Peterson. Newton’s Clock: Chaos in the Solar System. Freeman, 1998. (D $5.98)

1. Aguilera, Octavio

2. Quintana, Miguel A.

3. Hernandez, Jorge

4. Rosales, Heladio A.

XVII. Nina Rattner Gelbart. The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray. University of California Press, 1998 (D $6.98)

1. Marquez, Nubia

2. Gonzalez, Jessica

3. Prieto, Alba A.

4. Monreal, Vince

XVIII. Dava Sobel. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Penguin, 1996. (A $9.56)

1. Champagne, Chris

2. Edwards, Dianne

3. Gandara, Luis

4. Orpinel, Renato

XIX. Dava Sobel. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. Penguin, 2000. (A $11.20)

1. Guardiola, Marisol

2. Delfin, Edgar

3. Gonzalez, Jacob

4. Reyes, Ernesto Jacinto