100 Books that shaped science in the 20th centuryfrom American Scientist 1999 |
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
by Charles Darwin
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A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
by G. H. Hardy
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
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Disturbing the Universe (Sloan Foundation Science Series)
by Freeman Dyson
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
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William Garnett: Aerial Photographs
by William Garnett
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East African Mammals. An Atlas of Evolution in Africa. 7 volume set
by Jonathan Kingdon
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Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
by Lynn Margulis
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Photo Atlas of the United States: A Complete Photographic Atlas of the USA Using Satellite Photography , margulis | ||
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A Field Guide to the Birds ** 1934 First Edition; Inscribed By Peterson to National Audubon Society ** Profoundly Unique Association **
by Roger Tory; Peterson
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Hubble Atlas of Galaxies
by Allan Sandage
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Geology Illustrated
by John S. Shelton
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Sea of Cortez : A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
by John Steinbeck
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The Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement | ||
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Hortus: a Concise Dictionary of Gardening, General Horticulture and Cultivated Plants in North America
by L. H. Bailey
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The Whole Shebang : A State of the Universe(S) Report
by Timothy Ferris
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One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by George Gamow
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A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen Hawking
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
by Douglas Hofstadter
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The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger
by Kenneth J. Hsu
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From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers
by Georges Ifrah
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The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
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Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan
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Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature (Vintage)
by Steven Weinberg
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Symmetry
by Hermann Weyl
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Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
by Paul A. M. Dirac
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902 (Original texts)
by Albert Einstein
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Fractals : Form, Chance, and Dimension (Mathematics Ser.)
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals; An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry. (George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lec)
by Linus Pauling
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Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
by Alfred North Whitehead
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A Search for Structure
by Cyril Stanley Smith
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by John and Oskar Morgenstern Von Neumann
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
by Norbert Weiner
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Conservation of Orbital Symmetry
by Richard B. Woodward
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The Meaning of Relativity: Third Edition (Revised) Including the Generalized Theory of Gravitation
by Albert Einstein
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set
by Donald E. Knuth
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Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World
by Abraham Pais
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Science in History, Volumes 1-4
by J. D. Bernal
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Microbe Hunters
by Paul de Kruif
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In the name of science
by Martin Gardner
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Harvard Paperbacks)
by Arthur O. Lovejoy
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Science and Civilization in China (Science and Civilisation in China)
by Joseph Needham
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
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A History of Technology, Five Volumes
by Charles Singer and E. J. Holmyard and A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
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Science: The Endless Frontier
by Vannevar Bush
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
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Art of the Soluble
by P.B. Medawar
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