Lisa Randall
2011
Knocking on Heaven’s
Door: How Physics
and Scientific
Thinking Illuminate
the Universe and the
Modern World
Get a crush on The Large Hadron
Collider and the Higgs boson.
500 R AN
Jim Baggott
2012
Higgs: The Invention
and Discovery of the
‘God Particle’
Biggest, most expensive hunt for the
elusive particle to explain why matter
exists.
539.721 BAG
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Science
Books
for the
Eternally
Curious
Robert H. March
1978
Physics for Poets
Love quanta but hate math? This is the
book for you.
530 MAR
Leonard Mlodinow
2001
Euclid’s Window: The
Story of Geometry
from Parallel Lines to
Hyperspace
Irreverent attitude makes geometry
with no diagrams fun.
516.009 MLO
Edward Belbruno
2007
Fly Me to the Moon: An
Insider’s Guide to the
New Science of Space
Travel
Why do we use rocket power for space
travel when we can slingshot around the
solar system using gravity?
629.411 BEL
2005
Black Bodies and
Quantum Cats: Tales
from the Annals of
Physics
History of physics told Canterbury Tales
style.
530.09 OUE
Lee Smolin
2006
The Trouble with
Physics: The Rise of
String Theory, the Fall
of a Science, and What
Comes Next
What’s wrong with string theory? Find
out all the in-fighting in physics.
530.1 SMO
2008
Physics of the
Impossible: A Scientific
Exploration Into the
World of Phasers, Force
Fields, Teleportation,
and Time Travel
Technology of the future explained with
today’s physics.
530 K AK
Leonard Mlodinow
2008
The Drunkard’s Walk:
How Randomness
Rules Our Lives
You’ll finally understand randomness,
promise.
Jennifer Ouellette
Michio Kaku
519.2 MLO
Leonard Susskind
2010
From Eternity to Here:
The Quest for the
Ultimate Theory of
Time
Big Bang theory + the arrow of time +
entropy = our universe.
2008
The Black Hole War:
My Battle with
Stephen Hawking
to Make the World
Safe for Quantum
Mechanics
The author argued with Stephen
Hawking about black holes and won.
530.12 SUS
Sean Carroll
530.11 CAR
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
2010
The Grand Design
Why is there something rather
than nothing? Keep watching for the
“M-Theory.”
530.142 HAW