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The fascination of science
A Listmania! list by lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland)

1. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson

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	"Rip-roaring tale of girls, parties and nucleotides. Watson's views about women are weird, but he tells a great story and he is after all a genius"

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2. Mathematics: The New Golden Age (Penguin Science) by Keith Devlin

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	"All that's happening in contemporary maths, made understandable"

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

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	"Extremely readable and also a serious contribution to science"

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4. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) by Albert Einstein

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	"You may as well have it explained to you by the chairman of the board"

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5. Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements by John Emsley

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	"What the elements are and what they do. Hours of fascinating browsing"

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6. The Character of Physical Law (Penguin Press Science) by Richard P Feynman

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	"Feynman at his most engaging, talking for the general public about why stuff happens"

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7. The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1 by William James

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	"Once a standard textbook, now chiefly just a great read, but he's a lot more lucid than his brother Henry. Don't forget volume 2"

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8. Complete Psychological Works Of Sigmund Freud, The Vol 4: "The Interpretaion of Dreams", Pt.1 v. 4 by Sigmund Freud

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	"I don't know if psychoanalysis is exactly a science, but this is still fascinating. Again, you'll need volume 2"

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9. On Nature and Language by Noam Chomsky

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	"Some of the most recent thoughts of the man who practically invented modern linguistics. He's changed his mind a lot so keep an eye out for updates"

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10. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker

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	"Much of the best work of Pinker. A valuable counter-argument to fashionable pseudoscience, but he does go wildly astray when he starts talking about art"

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11. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (English Library) by Charles Darwin

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	"Endlessly interesting and very lucid"

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