|
|
Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 23:09.
|
Anyway, here's my copy of the list:
- Micrographia, Robert Hooke
- The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
- Richard Westfall
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
- Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney
- The Devil's Doctor, Philip Ball
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye
- Physics for Entertainment, Yakov Perelman
- 1-2-3 Infinity, George Gamow
- The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
- Warmth Disperses, Time Passes, Hans Christian von Bayer
- Alice in Quantumland, Robert Gilmore
- Where Does the Weirdness Go? David Lindley
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- A Force of Nature, Richard Rhodes
- Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip Thorne
- A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
- Universal Foam, Sidney Perkowitz
- Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman
- The Code Book, Simon Singh
- The Elements of Murder, John Emsley
- Soul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer* on hand, in progress
- Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
- The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson
- Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
- Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
- The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, Lisa Jardine
- A Matter of Degrees, Gino Segre
- The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence Krauss
- E=mc2, David Bodanis
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife
- Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold, Tom Shachtman
- A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin
- Warped Passages, Lisa Randall
- Apollo's Fire, Michael Sims
- Flatland, Edward Abbott
- Fermat's Last Theorem, Amir Aczel
- Stiff, Mary Roach
- Astroturf, M.G. Lord
- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
- Longitude, Dava Sobel
- The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg
- The Mummy Congress, Heather Pringle
- The Accelerating Universe, Mario Livio
- Math and the Mona Lisa, Bulent Atalay
- This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin
- The Executioner's Current, Richard Moran
- Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
- Pythagorus' Trousers, Margaret Wertheim
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Physics of Superheroes, James Kakalios
- The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump, Sandra Hempel
- Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Katrina Firlik
- Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps, Peter Galison
- The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
- The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
- The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
- An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears
- Consilience, E.O. Wilson
- Wonderful Life, Stephen J. Gould
- Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
- Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel
- The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas
- Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris
- Storm World, Chris Mooney
- The Carbon Age, Eric Roston
- The Black Hole Wars, Leonard Susskind
- Copenhagen, Michael Frayn
- From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne
- Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson
- Chaos, James Gleick
- Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos
- The Physics of NASCAR, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
- Subtle is the Lord, Abraham Pais
More added by PZ Myers:
- Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski
- Basin and Range, John McPhee* intend to read
- Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
- Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod
- Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Olivia Judson* part of Mount To-Be-Read
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll*
- Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Carl Zimmer
- Genome, Matt Ridley
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond* part of Mount To-Be-Read
- It Ain't Necessarily So, Richard Lewontin
- On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- Phantoms in the Brain, VS Ramachandran
- The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
- The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd
- The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson
- The Great Devonian Controversy, Martin Rudwick
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks
- The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, Richard Lewontin
- Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner
- Voyaging and The Power of Place, Janet Browne
- Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier* part of Mount To-Be-Read
Others on my list:
Cocktail Party Physics suggested a popular-science book meme and asked bloggers to list some of their favourite books, books they had read, or books they'd like to read.
- The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, David Quammen* on Mount TBR
- Connections, by James Burke
- Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sachs on Mount TBR
- Rats, Lice and History, by Hans Zinsser
- Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
- FAt the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs by Carl Zimmer
- The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
- Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif
- The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker* would like to read
- Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin* at home, on my to-read list
- 1-2-3 Infinity, George Gamow
- Hot-blooded Dinosaurs
- Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World Of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer
- In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
- The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan - might have read it
- The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
- The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond* on hand
- The Double Helix, James Watson
- Rosalind Franklin and DNA
- Darwin's Ghost: "The Origin of Species" Updated by Steve Jones*
- Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
- The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
- Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores by David Macdonald
- Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Stars, Men and Atoms by Heinz Haber
- The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
- On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz; Marjorie Kerr Wilson (tr.)
- The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas
- Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
- Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller, Borin Van Loon
- The Dawn of Life by J. H. Rush
- Inside the Nucleus by Irving Adler; Ruth Adler (illustrator) (look for books from the Signet Science Library)
- African Genesis: The Animal Origins and Nature of Man by Robert Ardrey
- The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations by Robert Ardrey
- Here Am I -- Where Are You? The Behavior of the Greylag Goose by Konrad Lorenz
- Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich
- King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz; Marjorie Kerr Wilson (tr.)
- Diseases and History (or some such)
- Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
- The Best American Science Writing,* I've read a few and recommend anything in the series)
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing,* (I've read a few and recommend anything in the series)
- The Marine Biology Coloring Book by Thomas M. Niesen; Wynn Kapit (ill.) (this represents a class of informative coloring books)
- Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
- An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Living Clocks by Ritchie R. Ward
- Powers of Ten by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, Charles & Ray Eames
- The Island of the Colorblind: and Cycad Island by Oliver W. Sacks
- Newton's Madness: Further Tales of Clinical Neurology by Harold L. Klawans
- The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio
- The Seashell on the Mountaintop: ...A New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler
- Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases (forensic science) by William R. Maples
- Toronto Rocks: The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region by Nick Eyles
- some of Isaac Asimov's science books
- Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed by David Clark
- The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age by Edmund Blair Bolles
- Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport by Frederik Pohl
- Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Do by Candace B. Pert
- After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
- Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale by Judith Hooper (in progress)
- The John McPhee Reader (don't remember editor)
- The Miner's Canary: Unravelling the Mysteries of Extinction by Niles Eldredge
- Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It by Loren Eiseley (in progress)
- Pigs Pigs Pigs by Lyall Watson
- At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs by Carl Zimmer
- How to Lie with Statistics (in progress)
- Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
- Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard Leakey, Roger Lewin
- Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species by y Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
- The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
- Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap: A wide-awake inquiry into the human nature of time by Jeremy Campbell
- The Living Clocks by Ritchie R. Ward
- Why Do Buses Come in Threes? The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life by Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham
- Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles by Donald A. Norman
- The First Chimpanzee: In Search of Human Origins by John Gribbin, Jeremy Cherfas
Bookmark/Search this post with:
|
|
Post new comment