Re:Two great books (Score 1)

Paulos is at the top of my list, but I would start with "Beyond Innumeracy", an anthology of short essays about mathematics - a natural history of mathematics. Both his personal website (www.math.temple.edu/~paulos/) and his site "Who's Counting (abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/) would be really good resources for your students. Another addition to the the list would be Barabasi's "Linked" which looks at networks, from computers to social. Although, a little on the stiff side (but very few equations) the application to MySpace, Facebook and the rest of web2.0 world should make it approachable.