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Popular science books recommended by (some) scientists
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1. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift) by Edwin Abbott

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(30 customer reviews)

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2. A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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3. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Bradford Books) by Braitenberg

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4. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio

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5. The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies

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6. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Prof Richard Dawkins

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7. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins

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8. Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto) by Roger Penrose

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9. Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick

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10. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

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	"(multiple recommendations)"

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(75 customer reviews)

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11. The Pattern On The Stone: How Computers Think ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) by Daniel Hillis

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12. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Penguin Press Science) by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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13. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter

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14. The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis

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15. Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi

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16. Einstein's Dreams by A. Lightman

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17. The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker

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	"(multiple recommendations)"

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18. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran

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19. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

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20. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks

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21. Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It by Simon Singh

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22. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Strogatz

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23. Nobel Dreams: Experiments at the Edge of the Universe: An Experiment at the Edge of the Universe by GARY Y TAUBES

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24. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg

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25. Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond

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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?

Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto)

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

The Pattern On The Stone: How Computers Think ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science)

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Penguin Press Science)

The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

Einstein's Dreams

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador)

Nobel Dreams: Experiments at the Edge of the Universe: An Experiment at the Edge of the Universe

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A Short History Of Nearly Everything forum whats the running time of this audio version of the Book, is it abridged?	1	2 Nov 2009
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life forum Parsimony (in response to J Grainger)	0	10 Sep 2007