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Top Science Books
Zero:
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
Summer
for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science
and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Unto
Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott
Sober and David Sloan Wilson
General
Science
What
Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins
of Life, and the Future of the Human Race by John Maddox
Unweaving
the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard
Dawkins
Human Evolution Books
The
Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
edited by Leonard Katz
Virus
of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie
The
Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
by Frank Wilson
Cheating
Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and
Humans by Lee Dugatkin
The
Great Human Diaspora: The History of Diversity and Evolution
by Luidi Luca Cavalli-Sforza et al
Becoming
Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness by Ian Tattersall
Neanderthals,
Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began by Colin
Trudge
Biology
Books
This
Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
by Ernst Mayr
Genome:
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
The
Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by
Jonathan Weiner
Shaping
Life: Genes, Embryos, and Evolution by John Maynard Smith.
The
Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Physics Books
'Surely
You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character
edited by Edward Hutchings, et al
Superstrings,
Symmetry and the Theory of Everything
by John Gribbin
At
Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and
Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
Psychology & Neurology
Books
Evolving
Brains by John Morgan Allman
An
Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
What
Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math by Brian
Butterworth
History of Science Books
Galileo's
Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava
Sobel
Summer
for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science
and Religion
by Edward J. Larson
The
Neuropsychological Theories of Lashley and Hebb by Jack Orbach
Constructing
Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley's Mind-Brain Debates by
Nadine Weidman
Science & Philosophy Books
Fashionable
Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal
& Jean Bricmont
The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Consilience:
The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
Schrodinger's
Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries
by John Gribbon
Neuroscience & Cogscience Books
How
the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Memory
in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the
Human and Nonhuman Primate
by Joaquin M. Fuster
Mathematics Books
Zero:
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
The
Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty
by K. C. Cole The
Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan What
Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math by Brian
Butterworth
A
History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical
Universe by Ernest Zebrowski
Astronomy Books
The
Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J. L.
Heilbron
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
Earth Science Books
Longitude:
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem
of His Time by Dava Sobel
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