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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman
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Include books by the same authorGalileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Dava Sobel · 420 pages
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called “the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science al
Theory of Colours
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 423 pages
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
John Gribbin · 647 pages
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
Fritjof Capra · 464 pages
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman · 350 pages
The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe · 64 pages
The creator of the webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and just ten hundred common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.
Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy
Robert M. Hazen, James S. Trefil · 294 pages
Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook for introductory courses in high school and college, and yet well-written enough
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 560 pages
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies. A Short History deviates from
30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute
Paul Parsons · 160 pages
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
Lynne McTaggart · 268 pages
Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, reveals a radical new biological paradigm -- that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
George Johnson · 208 pages
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop · 380 pages
"In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
James Burke · 353 pages
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick · 301 pages
""Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly? In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff w
The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Mary Gribbin, John Gribbin · 224 pages
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
John Powell · 264 pages
John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers questions about harmony, timbre, keys, chords, loudness, musical composition, and many more in this intriguing and original guide to acoustics.
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick · 360 pages
The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot.
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski · 448 pages
Traces the development of science and the discoveries that have made man unique among animal species.
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Jim Holt · 309 pages
Why is there a world rather than nothing at all? This question remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking who insist that science alone is capable of explaining how our cosmos came into being, the author enters this debate as he examines our efforts to grasp the origins of
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Carl Sagan · 398 pages
Explorers various aspects of several fields of science and examines the role of the intellect in scientific achievement.
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Michael Brooks · 256 pages
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1
Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands · 544 pages