Science, Evolution, and Creationism and encourage every person involved in or concerned about science education in the United States to order a copy.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex tells you that Mary Roach is up to her usual broad humor, just as she did for her previous titles, 
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and 
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, both of which are reviewed on the Science Shelf. (Click covers for their reviews.)
Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future by Jeffrey Bennett. My review nitpicks at one element of its approach, but not its content. My verdict is four thumbs up (assuming aliens have two thumbs on each hand).
Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God by Amos Nur. Clicking the cover will take you to the review, which opens with these paragraphs:
In the middle of the fourth century AD, a series of earthquakes struck the port of Kourion on the southern coast of Cyprus. Originally built by the Greeks a millennium and a half earlier during the Late Bronze Age, the town had no doubt experienced its share of seismic events, but nothing prepared its inhabitants for the major earthquake and tsunami that struck just after dawn, most likely on July 21, AD 365.
Because of the early hour, farm animals were trapped in their stables, and most of the population was caught beneath the rubble of their collapsing homes. The few survivors, probably too overwhelmed to recover and bury the dead, abandoned Kourion forever. When archaeologists excavated the site in the 1980s, little had been disturbed.
Among the many discoveries was the heartbreaking tableau of a skeletal family. The man holds his wife protectively while she cradles their one-year-old child. The image, both poignant and instructive, graces the cover of Stanford University Earth Science and geophysics professor Amos Nur's new book, Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God, written with the assistance of his graduate student Dawn Burgess.
The title might lead some readers--incorrectly--to expect a book full of graphic descriptions of biblical devastation. What they get instead is less spectacular but every bit as captivating. The professor delivers a fascinating mini-course full of detail, speculation, and a challenge to previous archaeological interpretations.
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller (UPDATE: REVIEW TO BE ADDED HERE AFTER JUNE 15, 2008)
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson (UPDATE: I HAVE DECIDED TO PASS ON REVIEWING THIS BOOK)
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery Gilbert.
Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace With Your Thinking Brain (Including Intelligent Answers to Intelligent Design) by David E. Comings, M.D.
Off the Deep End: The Probably Insane Idea that I Could Swim My Way Through a Midlife Crisis--and Qualify for the Olympics by W. Hodding Carter.
Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John Long and Peter Schouten (Coffee Table Book; Marvelous art!)
The Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings--Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner
Bracing for Armageddon?: The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America by William R. Clark
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
Flower Hunters by Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
The Private Life of Spiders by Paul Hillyard (Coffee Table Book; great photos)
