Best books in Science
Physics, biology, evolution and cosmology — without unnecessary simplification. The books in this category were recommended by people who read science for pleasure and understand the difference between honest popularization and scientific sensationalism. Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Bill Gates are a constant presence.
Hans Andersen's fairy tales ...
David Christian
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Euclid's elements of geometry
Euclid
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Einstein's Mistakes
Hans C. Ohanian
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The weather makers
Tim Flannery
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The Martians of Science
Istvan Hargittai
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Peter Norvig
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Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Lester R. Brown
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Plants of the gods
Richard Evans Schultes
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For the Love of Physics
Walter Lewin
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Cesar Hidalgo
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Power, Sex, Suicide
Nick Lane
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Scientific principles of coaching.
John William Bunn
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Probability, random variables, and stochastic processes
Athanasios Papoulis
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Projections
Karl Deisseroth
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QED
Richard P. Feynman
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What a Wonderful World
Marcus Chown
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Rats, Lice and History
Hans Zinsser
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Rebooting AI
Gary Marcus
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Breath from Salt
Bijal P. Trivedi
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Breath
James Nestor
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Gathering Moss
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Richard Feynman
John Gribbin
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Global Catastrophic Risks
Nick Bostrom
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