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Old 05-19-2011, 03:29 PM   #1
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Recommend some science books ??
Hi,

i have just read and really enjoyed Bill Brysons Short History Of Everything and i would like to know if anyone knows of any books of the same nature and pitched at the same level (not a dry academic tome)

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,mick.
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Old 05-19-2011, 03:59 PM   #2
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Old 05-19-2011, 04:10 PM   #3
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Hi,

i have just read and really enjoyed Bill Brysons Short History Of Everything and i would like to know if anyone knows of any books of the same nature and pitched at the same level (not a dry academic tome)

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,mick.
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin is very good. Well written, not dry.
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Old 05-19-2011, 07:10 PM   #4
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Any of Asimov's non-fiction science titles.

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I can highly recommend Kaku's Einstein's Cosmos. Best and most understandably book on Einstein's theories I have ever read.
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NPR's Science Fridays did a segment on science books to read this summer.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201105202
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