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This page is for a list of the books in my personal science library, including a few biographies or books that are biographical sketches or have much biographical material. I have separated the titles into some major categories. Some of these books may fit in more than one category or a more specific category, but I have listed them in only one. For some, I note additional categories from the title page in parenthesis. I have been slow to create this list because I concentrate on history articles. The list could be helpful for research and to have the books in proper citation form. The list is perhaps 20 percent complete (based on shelf space used). I intend to finish it, probably piecemeal, as time permits. Donner60 (talk) 08:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

In general, my Library (bibliography) pages have been created so that I can more easily research my books to find references to add content or references to articles or to create new articles. Links are on my user page. The titles are shown in Chicago Manual of Style format. Note from Wikipedia:Citing sources. July 17, 2016: "While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author–date referencing, Vancouver system and Bluebook." I use the Chicago Manual of Style format because I found it easier to understand and edit when I started contributing to Wikipedia. It can have one or two more pieces of information than other formats. In 2018, "magic links" have been deprecated and the advantage of automatically checked ISBNs can be attained by using the correct format for ISBNs and still use the Chicago Manual of Style format. Wikipedia:Book sources and Help:ISBN are pertinent Wikipedia pages. I occasionally also have listed some more frequently used books in the more standard style.

Incomplete; about 20% complete

Last edits February 4, 2023

Archaeology; Dinosaurs; Paleontology

  • Brusatte, Steve. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World, New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2018. {{ISBN|978-0-06-249043-8}}.

Astronomy; Gravitational Wave Astronomy; Astrophysics; Extraterrestrial Life; Space Exploration; Space Sciences

See also Relativity; Gravity, Black Holes; Dark Matter, Dark Energy

  • Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Astronomy. New York: Bonanza Books, 1979. {{ISBN|978-0-517-27924-3}}.
  • Bartusiak, Marcia. Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: The Story of A Gamble, Two Black Holes, and A New Age of Astronomy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-300-22339-2}}. Earlier edition 2000.
  • Davies, Paul. The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence. New York: Mariner Books, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-547-42258-9}}.
  • Krauss, Lawrence M. The Physics of Star Trek. New York: Basic Books, 1995. {{ISBN|978-0-465-00559-8}}.
  • Rees, Martin. Smithsonian Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide Revised and updated edition. New York: DK Publishing, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-7566-9841-6}}.
  • Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980. {{ISBN|978-0-394-50294-6}}.

Biography; History of Science

  • Gribbin, John. The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors. New York: Random House, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-8129-6788-3}}.

Biology; Psychology; Nature; Evolution

  • Attenborough, David. Life on Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. {{ISBN|978-0-316-05745-5}}.
  • Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man. Boston: Little, Brown and Company: 1973. {{ISBN|978-0-316-10930-7}}. (History of human life, cultural evolution, philosophy of science, scientific endeavor)
  • Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-393-04535-2}}.

Communication; Information

  • Gleick, James. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-375-42372-7}}.

Cosmology

See also Relativity, Time below.

  • Davies, Paul. Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-618-59226-5}}.
  • Davies, Paul. The Runaway Universe. New York: Penguin Books, 1980 {{ISBN|978-0-14-005366-1}}. Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
  • Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-375-72720-7}}. First published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
  • Kaku, Michio. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos. New York: Anchor Books, 2996. {{ISBN|978-1-4000-3372-0}}. (Also: Big Bang Theory; Superstring Theories; Super Gravity.}
  • Krauss, Lawrence M. A Universe from Nothing. New York: Atria Paperback, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-4516-2446-5}}. (Beginning, End of the universe.))
  • Tyson, Neil DeGrasse. Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-393-33016-8}}. (Also Black Holes, Astronomy, Astrobiology, Solar System, Religion and Science.)

Dark Matter, Dark Energy

  • Gates, Evalyn. Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020. {{ISBN|978-0-393-33801-0}}. Originally published in hardcover 2009.

Environment; Geology

  • Attenborough, David. The Living Planet. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. {{ISBN|978-0-316-05748-6}}. (Geology, Environment, Current life on Earth and adaptation to environment)

Gravity; Black Holes

  • Chown, Marcus. The Ascent of Gravity. New York: Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-68177-537-1}}.
  • Scharf, Caleb. Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars and Life in the Cosmos. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-374-11412-1}}.
  • Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes & Time Warps. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-393-31276-8}}. (Also Astronomy, Astrophysics, Relativity.)

Mathematics; Statistics

  • Ellenberg, Jordan. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. New York: Penguin Books, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-14-312753-6}}. First published by Penguin Press, 2014.

Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics; Higgs; Collider

  • Baggott, Jim. Higgs: The Invention & Discovery of the 'God Particle' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-19-967957-7}}.
  • Close, Frank. Neutrino. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-19-957459-9}}.
  • Close, Frank. Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2994. {{ISBN|978-0-19-280434-1}}.
  • Halpern, Paul. Collider: the search for the world's smallest particles. Hoboken, NJ: Paul Wiley * Sons, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-470-64391-4}}.
  • Randall, Lisa. Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-06-230047-8}}.

Physics, General

See also Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics; Relativity; Time

Quantum Physics; Quantum Mechanics; Reality, Uncertainty

  • Al-Khalili. Quantum, A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. {{ISBN|978-1-84188-238-3}}. First published in 2003.
  • Ball, Philip. Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different. London: Penguin Random House, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-784-70608-1}}.
  • Becker, Adam. What is Real: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. New York: Basic Books, 2018. {{ISBN|978-0-465-09605-3}}.
  • Chown, Marcus. The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-309-09622-5}}.
  • Close, Frank. Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-465-02144-4}}.
  • Gribbin, John. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. {{ISBN|978-0-553-34253-6}}.
  • Gribbin, John. Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-316-32819-7}}.
  • Feynman, Richard P. QED: the strange theory of light and matter. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-691-12575-6}}. First printing 1985.
  • Ford, Kenneth W. 101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-674-05099-0}}.
  • Halpern. Paul. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality. New York: Basic Books, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-465-09758-6}}.
  • Kumar, Manjit. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-393-07829-9}}. First published in 2008.
  • Lindley, David. Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science. New York: Anchor Books, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-4000-7996-4}}. (Particle physics; Relativity)
  • Susskind, Leonard & Art Friedman. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. New York: Basic Books, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-465-06290-4}}.

Relativity; Time

  • Cox, Brian and Jeff Forshaw. Why does E=mc2? (and why should we care?). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-306-81758-8}}. (Space and Time; Mathematics.}
  • Davies, Paul. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. New York: A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, 1995. {{ISBN|978-0-684-81822-1}}.
  • Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-14-303982-2}}. Introduction by Nigel Calder.
  • Gribbin, John with Mary Gribbin. Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity. New York: Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2016. {{ISBN|978-1-68177-212-7}}.
  • Halpern. Paul. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality. New York: Basic Books, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-465-09758-6}}.
  • Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time. New York, Bantam Books, 1988. {{ISBN|978-0-553-38016-3}}.
  • Hawking, Steven. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1996. {{ISBN|978-0-553-10374-8}}.
  • Krauss, Lawrence M. Hiding in the Mirror. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-143-03802-3}}. Originally published New York: Viking, 2005. (String Theory; Space and Time; Fourth Dimension; Alternate Realities.)
  • Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages" Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. New York: Harper Perennial, 2--6. {{ISBN|978-0-06-053109-6}}. Original published New York: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
  • Lieber, Lillian R. The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-58988-044-3}}. Edited and with a new Foreward by David Derbes and Robert Jantzen. Originally published New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945.

Thermodynanics

  • Atkins, Peter. The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-19-957219-9}}.