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    Well at least now there is a book I have read on the list
    Also I own The Origin of the Species but I haven't read it yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pallantides View Post
    Well at least now there is a book I have read on the list
    Also I own The Origin of the Species but I haven't read it yet.
    Well, do you plan to do so? You seem very interested in this sort of topic.

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    1. Micrographia - Robert Hooke
    2. The Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
    3. Never at Rest - Richard Westfall
    4. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
    5. Tesla: Man Out of Time - Margaret Cheney
    6. The Devil's Doctor - Philip Ball
    7. The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
    8. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos - Dennis Overbye
    9. Physics for Entertainment - Yakov Perelman
    10. 1-2-3 Infinity - George Gamow
    11. Guns, Germs And Steel - Jared Diamond
    12. Warmth Disperses, Time Passes - Hans Christian von Bayer
    13. Alice in Quantumland - Robert Gilmore
    14. Where Does the Weirdness Go? - David Lindley
    15. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
    16. A Force of Nature, Richard Rhodes
    17. Black Holes and Time Warps - Kip Thorne
    18. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
    19. Universal Foam - Sidney Perkowitz
    20. Vermeer's Camera - Philip Steadman
    21. The Code Book - Simon Singh
    22. The Elements of Murder - John Emsley
    23. Soul Made Flesh - Carl Zimmer
    24. Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
    25. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - George Johnson
    26. Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
    27. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
    28. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke - Lisa Jardine
    29. A Matter of Degrees - Gino Segre
    30. The Physics of Star Trek - Lawrence Krauss
    31. E=mc<2> - David Bodanis
    32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
    33. Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold - Tom Shachtman
    34. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines - Janna Levin
    35. Warped Passages - Lisa Randall
    36. Apollo's Fire - Michael Sims
    37. Flatland - Edward Abbott
    38. Fermat's Last Theorem - Amir Aczel
    39. Stiff - Mary Roach
    40. Astroturf - M.G. Lord
    41. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
    42. Longitude - Dava Sobel
    43. The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg
    44. The Mummy Congress - Heather Pringle
    45. The Accelerating Universe- Mario Livio
    46. Math and the Mona Lisa- Bulent Atalay
    47. This is Your Brain on Music- Daniel Levitin
    48. The Executioner's Current, Richard Moran
    49. Krakatoa- Simon Winchester
    50. Pythagorus' Trousers- Margaret Wertheim
    51. Neuromancer- William Gibson [odd choice, I know]
    52. The Physics of Superheroes - James Kakalios
    53. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump - Sandra Hempel
    54. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe - Katrina Firlik
    55. Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps - Peter Galison
    56. The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
    57. The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
    58. The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
    59. An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
    60. Consilience - E.O. Wilson
    61. Wonderful Life - Stephen J. Gould
    62. Teaching a Stone to Talk - Annie Dillard
    63. Fire in the Brain - Ronald K. Siegel
    64. The Life of a Cell - Lewis Thomas
    65. Coming of Age in the Milky Way - Timothy Ferris
    66. Chaos - James Gleick
    67. The Carbon Age - Eric Roston
    68. The Black Hole Wars - Leonard Susskind
    69. Copenhagen - Michael Frayn
    70. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
    71. The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe - Stephen W. Hawking
    72. Men of Mathematics - E. T. Bell
    73. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pallantides View Post
    Well this book is missing from the list:
    hahaha I used to love that book

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