Lists of Bests: 100 Books that shaped science in the 20th century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/50315 from American Scientist 1999 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:31:27 GMT en-us 0 50 105 50 0 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627790 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627790"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/016rCEPHf5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> A Mathematician's Apology (Canto) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65002 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65002"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521427061.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. H. Hardy</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">3</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> Disturbing the Universe (Sloan Foundation Science Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91644 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91644"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465016774.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Freeman Dyson</div> Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10888 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10888"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393316041.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> William Garnett: Aerial Photographs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627791 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627791"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01E1S5WFJAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Garnett</div> East African Mammals. An Atlas of Evolution in Africa. 7 volume set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627792 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kingdon</div> Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704983 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704983"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0716730278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynn Margulis</div> Photo Atlas of the United States: A Complete Photographic Atlas of the USA Using Satellite Photography , margulis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627793 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Field Guide to the Birds ** 1934 First Edition; Inscribed By Peterson to National Audubon Society ** Profoundly Unique Association ** http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627794 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Tory; Peterson</div> Hubble Atlas of Galaxies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627796 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan Sandage</div> Geology Illustrated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627797 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John S. Shelton</div> Sea of Cortez : A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627798 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627800 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Hortus: a Concise Dictionary of Gardening, General Horticulture and Cultivated Plants in North America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627802 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. H. Bailey</div> The Whole Shebang : A State of the Universe(S) Report http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1398088 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1398088"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000F9RK8G.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V53982773_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Ferris</div> One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/295584 <div id="position">17</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> A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1838059 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Hawking</div> The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15846 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553345842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43049052_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Hofstadter</div> The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627803 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627803"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01AMR8MY48L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth J. Hsu</div> From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627804 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627804"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Fh78lpTnL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Ifrah</div> The Periodic Table http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/822316 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/822316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679444637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464775_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Primo Levi</div> Annals of the Former World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66456 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66456"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374518734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McPhee</div> Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7689 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7689"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345376595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1451394 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1451394"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679744088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Weinberg</div> Symmetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2325935 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2325935"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0691023743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V58581822_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Weyl</div> Lectures on Quantum Mechanics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/488778 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/488778"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486417131.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul A. M. Dirac</div> The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902 (Original texts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2676861 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2676861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691084076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45103613_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> Fractals : Form, Chance, and Dimension (Mathematics Ser.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2871320 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benoit B. Mandelbrot</div> 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) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358495 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358495"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801403332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linus Pauling</div> Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15259 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15259"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521626064.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred North Whitehead</div> A Search for Structure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627821 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cyril Stanley Smith</div> Theory of Games and Economic Behavior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627822 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John and Oskar Morgenstern Von Neumann</div> Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627826 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norbert Weiner</div> Conservation of Orbital Symmetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587904 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard B. Woodward</div> The Meaning of Relativity: Third Edition (Revised) Including the Generalized Theory of Gravitation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273911 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FBTZEG.01-A2CQWUKTCXY11M._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20013 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20013"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691024170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4724 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4724"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0201485419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald E. Knuth</div> Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76752 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76752"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0198519974.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533025_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abraham Pais</div> Science in History, Volumes 1-4 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627850 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. D. Bernal</div> Microbe Hunters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83963 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul de Kruif</div> In the name of science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627854 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Gardner</div> The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Harvard Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66630 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674361539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464359_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur O. Lovejoy</div> Science and Civilization in China (Science and Civilisation in China) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766823 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Needham</div> The Making of the Atomic Bomb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3322342 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3322342"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01319GZDZ9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div> A History of Technology, Five Volumes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627874 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Singer and E. J. Holmyard and A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams</div> The Right Stuff http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3298460 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3298460"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PQI00xwrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Science: The Endless Frontier http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1374160 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vannevar Bush</div> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4985 <div id="position">49</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> Art of the Soluble http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3627897 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P.B. Medawar</div>