Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
by Stephen T. Asma | 
The Secret Lives of Color
by Kassia St. Clair | 
Math and the Mona Lisa
by Bulent Atalay | 
Dinosaurs in the Attic
by Douglas J. Preston | 
The Radium Girls
by Kate Moore | 
Vermeer in Bosnia
by Lawrence Weschler | 
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson | 
Color
by Victoria Finlay | 
Jewels
by Victoria Finlay | 
Mauve
by Simon Garfield | 
The Code Book
by Simon Singh | 
The Botany of Desire
by Michael Pollan | 
The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert | 
Cod
by Mark Kurlansky | 
Salt
by Mark Kurlansky | 
The Disappearing Spoon
by Sam Kean | 
The Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough | 
Hackers
by Steven Levy |
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by Dan Egan | 
The Cracking Code Book
by Simon Singh |
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science. Illustrations.