50 best popular science books

in #science7 years ago

 It's no secret that in our pragmatic age popular science literature is becoming more and more popular, giving odds to the fiction of all stripes. For those who believe that it is never too late to learn, we have compiled a list of real pearls in the genre of science. 

 1. Eric Candel. In Search of Memory 

2. Penny Lecuter, Jay Burrison. The buttons of Napoleon. Seventeen molecules that changed the world 

3. Chris Frith. Brain and soul. 

4. Jessica Snyder Sachs. Germs are good and bad. Our health and survival in the world 

5. Arman Marie Leroy. Mutants 

6. Nick Lane. Stairs of life. The Ten Greatest Inventions of Evolution 

7. Ian Stewart. Truth and beauty. World History of Symmetry 

8. Alex Vilenkin. The world of many worlds. Physicists in search of parallel universes 

9. Neil Shubin. Inner fish. The history of the human body from the ancient times ... 

10. John Derbyshire. A simple obsession. Bernhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics 

11. Sean Carroll. Adapt and survive! DNA as a record of evolution 

12. Neil Shubin. The universe is within us. What do stones, planets, and people have in common? 

13. Mangit Kumar. Quantum. Einstein, Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality 

14. Mark Changizi. The revolution in vision 

15. Matt Ridley. Genome 

16. Norman Doydge. Plasticity of the brain

17. Mitio Kaku. Future of the mind 

18. N.P. Bekhtereva. The magic of the brain and the labyrinth of life 

19. Richard Dawkins. A selfish gene 

20. Stephen Hawking. Brief history of time. From the Big Bang to the Black Holes 

21. Carl Sagan. A world full of demons. Science is like a candle in darkness. 

22. What we believe, but we can not prove. Intellectuals of the XXI century about modern science 

23. Richard F. Feynman. You're joking, of course, Mr. Feynman! 

24. Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose. The nature of space and time 

25. Fritjof Capra. Tao of physics. Exploring the Parallels between Modern Physics and the Mysticism of the East 

26. Mary Roach. Cadavr. How the body after death serves science 

27. Shintan Yau, Steve Nadis. Theory of strings and hidden dimensions of the universe 

28. Carl Zimmer. Evolution. Triumph of the idea 

29. Oliver Sachs. Anthropologist on Mars 

30. Asya Kazantseva. Who would have thought! How the brain makes us do stupid things 

31. Leonard Mladinov. (Neo) conscious. How the unconscious mind governs our behavior 

32. Albert Einstein. The world as I see it 

33. Philip Ball. Critical mass. How do some phenomena give birth to others? 

34. Bill Bryson. A Brief History of almost everything in the world 

35. Jared Diamond. Guns, germs and steel. The fate of human societies 

36. Irina Levontina. Russian with dictionary 

37. Jack Kelly. Powder. From alchemy to artillery. The history of the substance that changed the world 

38. Masha Hesse. Perfect severity. Grigory Perelman: genius and the task of the millennium 

39. David Deutsch. The structure of reality. The Science of Parallel Universes 

40. Steven Strogatz. The pleasure of x. A fascinating excursion into the world of mathematics from one of the best teachers in the world 

41. Thomas Kuhn. Structure of scientific revolutions 

42. Jim Baggott. Higgs boson. From the scientific idea to the "particle of God" 

43. Paul Halpern. Collider 

44. Richard Dawkins. Chaplain of the devil. Reflections on hope, lies, science and love 

45. Lisa Randall. Knockin 'on Heaven. Scientific view on the device of the universe 

46. ​​Mitio Kaku. Hyperspace. A scientific odyssey through parallel worlds, holes in time and the tenth dimension 

47. Stephen Hawking. My brief history 

48. Jacob Perelman. Interesting algebra. Entertaining geometry 

49. Stephen Hawking, R. Penrose, A. Shimoni, N. Cartwright. The big, small and human mind 

50. George Johnson. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in the History of Science 

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