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Physics
1. Stephen
Hawking, Brief history of Time,
2. Brian
Green, Elegant Universe
3. Simon
Singh, Big bang
4. Ilya
Prigogine, Order out of chaos
5. Richard
Feynman, Six easy pieces
6. Manjit
Kumar, Quantum
7. George
Gamow, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland
8. J.E.
Gordon, The new science of strong materials or why you don’t fall through the
floor
9. JE
Gordon, Structures or why things don’t fall down
10. Albert
Einstein, Relativity special and general
11. Bertrand
Russel, ABC’s of relativity
12. Richard
Feynman: QED- The strange theory of light and matter
13. Gary
Zukov, The Dancing Wu Li Masters
14. Yakov
Perelman, Physics for entertainment – vols I and II
15. Carl
Sagan, Cosmos
16. K.
Eric Drexler, Engines of creation: The coming era of nanotechnology
17. David
Bodanis: Electric universe: how electricity switched on the modern world
18. Stephen
Hawking, Grand Design.
19. Jill
Jones, Empires of light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the race to electrify
the world
20. T.R.
Reid, The chip: How two Americans invented the microchip and launched a
revolution
21. Steven
Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution
22. James
Surowiecki, The wisdom of crowds
Geology:
1. John
Dickey, On the rocks: Earth science for
everyone
2. Ted
Nield, Supercontinent: Ten billion years in the life of our planets
3. T.H.
van Andel, New views on an old planet
4. John
Houghton, Global warming: the complete briefing
5. Al
Gore, Inconvenient truth
6. Richard
Fortey, Earth
7.
Simon Winchester, The Map That
Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology.
HarperCollins, 2001.
8.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
9. Robert M
Hazen, The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living
Planet
Biology
1. Richard
Dawkins, Selfish Gene,
2. Richard
Dawkins, Blind Watchmaker
3. D’
Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form
4. Charles
Darwin, The Origin of the Species,
5. Lewis
Thomas, Lives of a Cell
6. Schrodinger,
What is life?
7. John
King, Reaching for the sun: How plants work?
8. Stephen
Gould, Wonderful Life
9. Stephen
S. Morse, Emerging viruses
10. James
Lovelock, Gaia: a new look at life on earth
11. V.S.
Ramachandran, Phantoms in the brain
12. James
Watson, DNA
13. Siddhartha
Mukherjee, The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
14. Konrad
Lorenz, King solomon’s ring
15. Oliver
Sacks, The man who mistook his wife for a hat
16. Steve
Pinker, How the mind works
17. David
Attenborough, The private life of plants
18.
Paul D. Stolley & Tamar Lasky.
Investigating Disease Patterns—The Science of Epidemiology. Scientific American
Library, 1995
19.
Mae Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the worm: physics of
organisms.
Mathematics and computers
1. Courant
and Robbins, What is mathematics?
2. Douglas
Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach
3. Benoit
Mandelbrot, Fractal Geometry of Nature.
4. Simon
Singh, Fermat’s last theorem,
5. James
Gleick, Chaos
6. Albert
North Whitehead, An introduction to mathematics
7. Scott
Kelso, Dynamic patterns
8. TW
Corner, The pleasures of counting
9. Charles
Petzold, CODE: The hidden language of computer hardware and software
10. Leonard
Mlodinov, Euclid’s window: the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace
11.
Martin Davis, The Universal Computer.
The Road from Leibniz to Turing. W.W. Norton & Company, 2000
12.
Victor Gutenmacher and NB Vasiliyev,
Lines and Curves: a practical geometry handbook.
13.
Mark Linas, Six Degrees
14.
Steven Strogatz, Sync: how order
emerges from chaos
15.
A.L. Barabasi, Linked: how everything
is connected to everything
16.
Yakov Perelman, Algebra can be fun
Chemistry
1. Michael
Faraday, Chemical history of a candle
2. Isaac
Asimov, A concise history of chemistry
3. John
Emsley, Nature’s building blocks: An A-Z guide to the elements
4. Susan
Aldridge, Magic molecules: How drugs work?
5. Peter
Atkins, Atkin’s molecules
6. Peter
Atkins, Reactions
7. James
Keeler & Peter Wothers, Why chemical reactions happen?
8. Penny
Le Couteur and Jay Burreson, Napoleon’s buttons: how 17 molecules changed
history
9. Mark
Miodownik, Stuff matters: The strange
stories of marvelous materials that shape our man-made world.
10. Joe
Schwarz, Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the
Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
11. Simon Field,
Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
12. Hugh
Aldersey-Williams, Periodic tales: the curious lives of the elements
Biographical
1. Albert
Einstein, Ideas and opinions,
2. Richard
Feynman, Surely you must be joking Mr Feynman
3. Barbara
Goldsmith, Obsessive genius: The inner world of Marie Curie
4. Gale
Christianson, Isaac Newton
5. Robert
Kanigel, The man who knew infinity
6. James
Gleick, Genius (Life of Richard Feynman)
7. G
Venkataraman, Journey into Light: Life and Science of CV Raman.
8. Great
physicists: the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking
9. Arvind
Gupa, Bright Sparks – Indian scientists.
10. Walter
Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Science histories/Science and society:
1. Isaac
Asimov, Asimov’s New guide to science
2. George
Gamow, One, two, three… infinity
3. John
Gribbin, Science: A history
4. Thomas
Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions
5. Bill
Bryson, A short history of nearly everything
6. Jared
Diamond, Guns, germs and steel: the fates of human societies
7. Martin
Gardner, Fads and fallacies in the name of science
8. Michael
Lewis, The New New thing: the story of silicon valley
9. Thomas
Friedman, The world is flat
Future:
1. Ray
Kurzweil: The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology
2. John
Brockman, The next 50 years: Science in the first half of 21st
century
3.
Michio Kaku. Visions: How Science
Will Revolutionize the 21st Century. Bantam, 1998.
very good.
great books.good collection
Thank you Sridevi garu, Ravisekhar garu.