School library faculty recommendation?

[phyz]

I noticed that the school librarian has asked colleagues to offer a recommendation for a book and has desplayed those books prominently. "Mr. Miller Recommends Lies My Teacher Told Me." (You have to know our Mr. Miller.)

If I were asked for such, I would instinctively go for Sagan's Demon-Haunted World, but is that the best thing to offer a high school student? I'll confess I'm not a big reader. So I turn it over to the experts here. What skeptic-tinged lit would you recommend for US high school students?

[Hindmost]

Hmmmmmm, I could recommend a few...but

"Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" would be good.

Students learning about an interesting super physicist would be great.

glenn

[Madalch]

I preferred "Why People Believe Weird Things."

If you want to go with Sagan, go with Cosmos. Lovely pictures.

Dr. Joe Schwarcz writes some good things for chemistry, with some skepticism mixed in.

[Tokenconservative]

I noticed that the school librarian has asked colleagues to offer a recommendation for a book and has desplayed those books prominently. "Mr. Miller Recommends Lies My Teacher Told Me." (You have to know our Mr. Miller.)

If I were asked for such, I would instinctively go for Sagan's Demon-Haunted World, but is that the best thing to offer a high school student? I'll confess I'm not a big reader. So I turn it over to the experts here. What skeptic-tinged lit would you recommend for US high school students?

Surely any good American school libraray has a full supply of Chomsky and Zinn, prominently displayed, and most "history" "teachers," surely must demand that their "students" read them?

Tokie

[KoihimeNakamura]

Er. Most history teachers attempt to teach. In any case, I'd recommend any books on the Constitutional Convnetion that you think are good. I've found they're decently interesting . (I can't think of a specific book right now except, say, Civil War Blunders)