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Readings in popular science including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, the origins of life and the human mind.

Readings in popular science including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, the origins of life and the human mind.


Popular science

The American Practical Navigator Nathaniel Bowditch
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil De Grasse Tyson
Being Mortal--Medicine and What Matters In the End Atul Gawande
Beyond Einstein--The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe Michio Kaku
Black Holes and Baby Universes Stephen Hawking
The Black Hole War Leonard Susskind
The Body--A Guide for Occupants Bill Bryson
Brain Rules John Medina
The Brain's Way of Healing--Remarkable Discoveries and
Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity Norman Doidge, MD
Breathless—The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus David Quammen
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived--The Human Story
Retold Through Our Genes Adam Rutherford
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
Brilliant Blunders From Darwin to Einstein Mario Livio
The Code Book Simon Singh
The Code Breaker—Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of
the Human Race Walter Isaacson
Complexity--The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos M. Mitchell Waldrop
Complications –A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs--The Astounding Interconnectedness
of the Universe Lisa Randall
Death by Black Hole Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan
The Disordered Mind--What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves Eric R. Kandel
Do No Harm--Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Henry Marsh
Dopamine Nation Anna Lembke, MD
Einstein’s War—How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious
Nationalism of World War 1 Matthew Stanley
The Elegant Universe Brian Greene
The Emperor of All Maladies--A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee
Energy for Future Presidents--The Science Behind the Headlines Richard A. Muller
Existential Physics Sabine Hossenfelder
The Fabric of the Cosmos Brian Greene
Fluke—Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters Brian Klaas
Fundamentals--Ten Keys to Reality Frank Welczek
The Future of the Mind--The Scientific Quest to Understand,
Enhance and Empower the Mind Michio Kaku
The Gene--An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee
Genome—The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley
Heart--A History Sandeep Jauhar
Hidden Potential—The Science of Achieving Greater Things Adam Grant
How To--Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems Randall Munroe
Hype--A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims
and Bad Advice Nina Shapiro, M.D.
The Idea Factory--Bell Labs and the Great Age of Innovation Jon Gertner
An Immense World—How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong
Infinite Powers--How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe Steven Strogatz
The Information--A History, A Theory, A Flood James Gleick
In Search of Memory Eric Kandel
Introducing Stephen Hawking McEvoy and Zarate
Isaac Newton James Gleick
The Joy of X Steven Strogatz
Knocking on Heaven’s Door Lisa Randall
The Invention of Air Steven Johnson
The Invention of Nature--Alexander von Humboldt Andrea Wulf
The Lives of Cells Lewis Thomas
The Man from the Future—The Visionary Life of John von Neumann Ananyo Bhattacharya
Masters of the Planet—The Search for Our Human Origins Ian Tattersall
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician Morris Kline
Moon Shot Alan Shepard
The New Fire—War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI Buchanan and Imbrie
An Ocean of Air--Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries
of the Atmosphere Gabrielle Walker
The Omnivore's Dilemma--A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan
On the Shoulders of Giants Stephen Hawking
Open Heart--The Radical Surgeons Who Revolutionized Medicine David K.C. Cooper, MD
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
The Origin Story David Christian
Our Mathematical Universe-- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality Max Tegmark
Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagen
Phantoms in the Brain V.S. Ramachandran
The Pluto Files—The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Predictive Analytics Eric Siegel
Programming the Universe Seth Lloyd
The Puzzle People--Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon Thomas E. Starzl
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great
Debate About the Nature of Reality Manjit Kumar
Range—Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World David Epstein
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs--A New History of a Lost World Steve Brusatte
The Righteous Mind—Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt
Sapiens--A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
Scale--The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and
the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies Geoffrey West
Scary Smart—The Future of Artificial Intelligence Mo Gawdat
Schrodinger's Rabbits Colin Bruce
Searching for Memory Daniel Schachter
She Has Her Mother's Laugh--The Powers, Perversions
and Potential of Heredity Carl Zimmer
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
Sickening--How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care John Abramson, M.D.
The Signal and the Noise--Why So Many Predictions Fail But Some Don’t Nate Silver
The Sixth Extinction--An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert
The Song of the Cell--An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Spark of Life--Electricity in the Human Body Frances Ashcroft
Spillover--Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic David Quammen
Starry Messenger—Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman Richard Feynman
The Tell-Tale Brain V.S. Ramachandran
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts Annie Duke
The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond
This Explains Everything--Deep, Beautiful and Elegant
Theories of How the World Works Jon Brockman, editor
Through Two Doors at Once—The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our
Quantum Reality Anil Ananthaswamy
The Undoing Project--A Friendship that Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis
The Uninhabitable Earth--Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
A Universe from Nothing Lawrence M. Krauss
Until the End of Time—Mind, Matter and Our Search
For Meaning In An Evolving Universe Brian Greene
Warped Passages Lisa Randall
Waves In An Impossible Sea Matt Strassler
We Have No Idea-A Guide to the Unknown Universe Cham & Whitestone
What Do You Care What Other People Think Richard Feynman
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
Why We Sleep--Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker, PhD
Working Stiff--Two Years, 262 Bodies and the Making of a Medical Examiner Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
Wrinkles In Time George Smoot
Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin
Readings in business, corporate finance, banking, accounting as well as the history of finance.

Readings in business, corporate finance, banking, accounting as well as the history of finance.