Isaac Newton
James Gleick
2003 · 2004 edition
288 pages
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Richard P. Feynman
1997 · 2005 edition
184 pages
The Trouble with Physics The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
Lee Smolin
2006 · 2008 edition
416 pages
The Wave In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies
Susan Casey
2010 · 2011 edition
326 pages
The Joy of X A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
Steven H. Strogatz
Published 2012
316 pages
Our Mathematical Universe My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark
Published 2014
421 pages
Starry Messenger Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2022 · 2024 edition
288 pages
What Do You Care What Other People Think?'
Richard Phillips Feynman
1989 · 2007 edition
256 pages
The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose, Jerzy. T¿ Przystawa
2004 · 2005 edition
1136 pages
Black Holes
Stephen Hawking
1994 · 2016 edition
80 pages
E=mc2 A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
David Bodanis
2000 · 2001 edition
352 pages
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Mike Brown
Published 2010
288 pages
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
Erwin Schrödinger
Published 1992
184 pages
A Man on the Moon The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Andrew Chaikin
1994 · 1998 edition
670 pages
THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND
Roger Penrose
1989 · 1990 edition
466 pages
Infinite Powers How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Steven H. Strogatz
Published 2019
360 pages
God
Victor J. Stenger
Published 2007
287 pages
The Strangest Man
Graham Farmelo
Published 2009
561 pages
The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults) How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
2019 · 2021 edition
208 pages
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Carlo Rovelli
Published 2016
256 pages
The Big Picture On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M. Carroll
2016 · 2017 edition
470 pages
The 4 Percent Universe Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Richard Panek, Ray Porter
Published 2011
297 pages
Space Chronicles
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
Published 2012
364 pages
The Future We Choose Surviving the Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
Published 2020
240 pages