Lists of Bests: Discover Magazine's "Best Science Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/19383 <a href="http://discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/25-greatest-science-books/">Compiled by the editors of <i>Discover</i> magazine. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:56:25 GMT en-us 0 50 33 0 0 The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67200 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67200"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014043268X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> The Origin Of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172312 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172312"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520088174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Newton</div> Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002467 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Galileo Galilei</div> On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/591794 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/591794"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0762420219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicolaus Copernicus</div> Physica (Oxford Classical Texts Ser) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465058 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198145144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056424328_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> De Humani Corporis Fabrica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465067 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891788108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056536217_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andreas Vesalius</div> Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979334 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979334"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0199291152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/295584 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/295584"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486256642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Gamow</div> The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074321630X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15200 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15200"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521427088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erwin Schrodinger</div> Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/233678 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/233678"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521783038.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> The Insect Societies (Belknap Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/890185 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705010 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/705010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465024378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122544058_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Weinberg</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> The Mismeasure of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2287769 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2287769"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140258248.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen, Jay Gould</div> The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19505 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684853949.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/501257 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/501257"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395859964.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meriwether Lewis</div> The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4732 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4732"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0201500647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> Sexual Behavior in the Human Male http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/342698 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/342698"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0253334128.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129881543_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred Charles Kinsey</div> Gorillas in the Mist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1868808 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1868808"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/061808360X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077844435_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dian Fossey</div> Under a lucky star,: A lifetime of adventure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1830306 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roy Chapman Andrews</div> Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465171 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465171"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406914827.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V36356537_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Hooke</div> Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48551 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48551"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192862189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Lovelock</div> The Interpretation Of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566195764.01-AHYFIEJ2WTD9G._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45451576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2532 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2532"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140047433.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Thomas</div> The Varieties of Religious Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934055 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934055"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402199031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4985 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226458083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas S. Kuhn</div> A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15505 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15505"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055305340X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen W Hawking</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10755 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10755"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393058581.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114482636_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Greene</div> The Making of the Atomic Bomb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684813785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div>