Recommended Reading

• Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World through the Language of Mathematics -- Robyn Arianrhod.
• Ship Fever -- Anna Barrett. Essays.
• The History of Pi -- Petr Beckmann. An interesting survey of the number Pi and its impact.
• Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos Science -- Jeremy Bernstein.
• Experienceing Science -- Jeremy Bernstein.
• A Theory for Everything -- Jeremy Bernstein.
• E=MC² -- David Bodanis. A short history of the famous equation.
• Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life -- Jeremy Campbell. Introduces information theory and its impact on language and thinking.
• The Tao of Physics -- Fritjof Capra. A readable account of modern physics.
• The Edge of Infinity -- Paul Davies.
• God and the New Physics -- Paul Davies.
• Mathematics: The New Golden Age -- Keith Devlin.
• Betrayal of Science and Reason -- Paul R. Ehrlich.
• Relativity -- Albert Einstein. A readable account of Relativity.
• Mr. Tompkins in Paperback -- George Gamow. A readable account of nuclear physics.
• Chaos -- James Gleick. A history of the development of Chaos theory.
• The Panda's Thumb -- Stephen J. Gould.
• A Brief History of Time -- Steven J. Hawking. An introduction to Cosmology.
• Great Feuds in Science -- Hal Hellman. A history of scientific disagreements between famous scientists.
• Godel, Escher, Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter.
• Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery -- Imbrie and Imbrie. A history of the theories about the Ice Ages.
• Complexity -- Roger Lewin.
• Einstein's Dreams -- Alan Lightman. Short essays.
• e - The Story of a Number -- Eli Maor. Attempt at explaining e to the public.
• Innumeracy -- John Allen Paulos. How we are fooled by numbers and statistics. Innumeracy <==> Illiteracy.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig. Philosophical musings about thinking.
• The Mathematical Tourist -- Ivars Petersen. Snippets about mathematical concepts.
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb -- Richard Rhodes. All great discoveries occur on mountain tops or beaches.
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters -- Matt Ridley. Discusses the human genome in a very easy to understand (and interesting) style.
• Noah's Flood: the new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history -- William Ryan and Walter Pitman. A description of research into the geologic event that may be Noah's Flood.
• Fieldwork : a geologist's memoir of the Kalahari -- Christopher Scholtz. A good depiction of a scientist's life.
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea -- Charles Seife.
• Longitude -- Dava Sobel. How voyagers determined longitude and the importance of accurate clocks.
• The Medusa and The Snail -- Lewis Thomas.
• Stone by Stone: The magnificient history in New Englnand's stone walls -- Robert M. Thorson.
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos -- M. Mitchell Waldrop. A history of the development of Complexity theory.
• The Double Helix -- James D. Watson. About the discovery of DNA.
• The Naturalist -- Edward O. Wilson. An autobiography of a famous Ant scientist and the discoverer of Social Biology.
• Dancing Wu Li Masters -- Gary Zukov. A readable explanation of Quantum Physics.

Books On Writing

• Conceptual Blockbusting -- James L. Adams.
• On Writing Well -- William Zinsser.
• Writing to Learn -- William Zinsser.
• The Elements of Style -- Strunk and White.
• William Safires Rule's for Writing -- William Safire.