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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose
Vintage, 2007
Not the usual watered down pop physics book.
+ The universe in a hard-to-crack nutshell
+ a natural wonder
+ The Road To Reality
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Lisa Randall
Harper Perennial, 2006
Very clear, balanced intro to modern physics and its frontiers
+ Review of Warped Passages
+ Four reasons to purchase
+ Why I was interested in science in the first place
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)
Roger Penrose
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
A mess
+ A maverick says:
+ A great, great book.
+ Do yourself a favor and read this book!
+ Walking past one another...
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books, 1999
Computer Science
+ An Incredible Intellectual Romp
+ Literate, Facinating, Readable
Godel, Escher and Bach, written by Douglas Hofstadter, while the title would suggest it is discussion of a mathematician, an artist, and a composer, is a complex examination of how human beings develop perception and meaning. More specifically, the book explores, through a series of dialogues and ...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
The Elegant Universe - Highly recommended, highly readable
+ An uncanny ability to explain
+ Elegant Book
+ The Elegant Universe
+ The Final Universe
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
Stephen Hawking
Phoenix Books, 2007
Even if it is unofficial...
+ My Best Chance at Understanding Hawking
Even if this product is unofficial, and unsanctioned by Stephen Hawking himself, I have to say I enjoyed it.
I liked how its topics were so clearly delineated into thematically cohesive lectures, I liked that the author read them himself using a computer, and I loved the clear and organized way ...
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene
Vintage, 2005
Simple explanations for profoundly complex topics
+ Simply the best.
+ Amazing Book
+ Excellent explanation of space/time
+ A very good popularization
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Simon & Schuster, 1992
A superb account of the emergence of the science of Emergent Complexity.
+ If you liked Gleick's Chaos, you'll love this!
This is a brilliant and riveting account of the birth of the science of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute told in the form of detailed and human biographical profiles of some the leading scientific voices in the movement. Some reviewers here have complained that this isn't a book of science, ...
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward Osborne Wilson
Vintage, 1999
Very Enlightening
+ Grand thesis, disappointing delivery
+ God's dream for Science
+ Reductionist Science and Transcendentalism
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A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down
Robert Laughlin
Basic Books, 2006
Self-indulgent and offensive but absolutely wonderful
+ Why do they love it and hate it?
+ A Very Funny Book...
+ Simply Brilliant
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward Osborne Wilson
Vintage, 1999
Very Enlightening
+ Grand thesis, disappointing delivery
+ God's dream for Science
+ Reductionist Science and Transcendentalism
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books, 1999
Computer Science
+ An Incredible Intellectual Romp
+ Literate, Facinating, Readable
Godel, Escher and Bach, written by Douglas Hofstadter, while the title would suggest it is discussion of a mathematician, an artist, and a composer, is a complex examination of how human beings develop perception and meaning. More specifically, the book explores, through a series of dialogues and ...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
The Elegant Universe - Highly recommended, highly readable
+ An uncanny ability to explain
+ Elegant Book
+ The Elegant Universe
+ The Final Universe
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene
Vintage, 2005
Simple explanations for profoundly complex topics
+ Simply the best.
+ Amazing Book
+ Excellent explanation of space/time
+ A very good popularization
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Simon & Schuster, 1992
A superb account of the emergence of the science of Emergent Complexity.
+ If you liked Gleick's Chaos, you'll love this!
This is a brilliant and riveting account of the birth of the science of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute told in the form of detailed and human biographical profiles of some the leading scientific voices in the movement. Some reviewers here have complained that this isn't a book of science, ...
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