Secondhand Science Bargain Book Box SP4161

Secondhand Science Bargain Book Box SP4161

Hawking, Feynman, Dawkins, Gould, Sacks, Dava Sobel, Matt Ridley and Ben Goldacre: seventeen popular science paperbacks covering physics, genetics, the brain, evolution and the history of ideas. The reading list for someone who liked A Short History of Nearly Everything and wants the originals.

1. Musicophilia Oliver Sacks People struck by lightning who become composers, amnesiacs who can still play, and what music does to the brain. Sacks at his most personal.
2. A More Perfect Heaven Dava Sobel How a young mathematician talked Copernicus into publishing, told partly as a play. From the author of Longitude.
3. Six Easy Pieces Richard P. Feynman The six most accessible lectures from the Caltech course: atoms, energy, gravity, quantum behaviour. The place to start with Feynman.
4. Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford G.I. Brown The American loyalist who invented the kitchen range, founded the Royal Institution and married Lavoisiers widow.
5. Genome Matt Ridley Twenty-three chapters, one per chromosome, on what the human genome says about us. Still the best introduction.
6. Looking for Spinoza Antonio Damasio Joy, sorrow and the feeling brain, with Spinoza as guide. Neuroscience meets philosophy.
7. Euclids Window Leonard Mlodinow Geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace, with jokes. Mlodinow co-wrote with Hawking.
8. Bad Science Ben Goldacre Homeopathy, nutritionists, the MMR scare and how the media gets science wrong. The book that launched a thousand sceptics.
9. All Us Apes and Other Scientific Wisdom from Ockhams Razor ed. Robyn Williams Essays from the ABC radio programme. Australian science writing at its best.
10. A Promise of Miracles Robyn Williams The ABC science broadcaster celebrates the scientific experience.
11. Secrets of the Grown-Up Brain Barbara Strauch The surprising talents of the middle-aged mind: what gets better after forty.
12. A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Black holes, the Big Bang and the arrow of time. Tenth-anniversary edition, updated.
13. Naked Ape to Superspecies David Suzuki & Holly Dressel Suzuki on humanity and the global ecocrisis, with Dressel.
14. River Out of Eden Richard Dawkins Evolution as a river of DNA. Short, clear Dawkins, in the Science Masters series.
15. Lifes Grandeur Stephen Jay Gould Why theres no evolutionary ladder, and why .400 hitters vanished from baseball. Goulds clearest argument.
16. Rewilding the World Caroline Fraser Dispatches from the conservation revolution: corridors, predators and the people bringing wilderness back.
17. Pendulum Amir D. Aczel Lon Foucault and the experiment that proved the Earth rotates. Science history as a story.