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Five (or six) good books about five different sciences: Materials Science: Gordon, Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down. Linguistics: Pinker, The Languag
by mechanical_fish 18y ago
Five (or six) good books about five different sciences:
Materials Science: Gordon, Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down.
Linguistics: Pinker, The Language Instinct
Evolutionary Biology: Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Molecular Biology: David Clark, Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun
Physics: the canonical answer is "Feynman". I won't argue with that. His little books (QED and The Character of Physical Law) are quite nice.
- helveticaman 18y ago+1 The Blind Watchmaker, although I'd argue The Selfish Gene is a better introduction to the field. The Blind Watchmaker is somewhat more focussed on argument evolution versus creationism. Still, awesome stuff.