Lists of Bests: Blackwell's Science top 50 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/54477 A promotional list of top 50 science books Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:13:01 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15505 <div id="position">1</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> 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> A Short History of Nearly Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22691 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767908171.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/192730 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/192730"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007162219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Singh</div> Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2045318 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2045318"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195179595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Blackmore</div> Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417276 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417276"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Ball</div> DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1947667 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1947667"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099451840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Penguin Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/108302 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div> Don't You Have Time to Think http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1646180 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1646180"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141021136.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59176997_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> Electric Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1645601 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1645601"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0349117667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Bodanis</div> Fermat's Last Theorem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3655543 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3655543"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11oG6AdDcmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Singh</div> Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1793285 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1793285"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198609418.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Atkins</div> Genes, Peoples and Languages (Penguin Press Science S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2367588 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">14</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> Heat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3640441 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3640441"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11TPMFPBgTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Monbiot</div> Mutants http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/880222 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/880222"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006531644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Armand Marie Leroi</div> Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/117956 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/117956"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00065HUA2.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4621 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4621"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198607830.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Lane</div> Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/427626 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/427626"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michio Kaku</div> Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581 <div id="position">20</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> Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388025 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674016130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris McManus</div> Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/238068 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/238068"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140297413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gribbin</div> Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4428 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4428"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195106466.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Penrose</div> Six Degrees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2871050 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Lynas</div> Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/205601 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/205601"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0306812835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533381_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. E. Gordon</div> Stumbling on Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864461 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864461"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41s3lUhnyOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905859 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905859"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01aavdXO7WL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Ronan</div> The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/939500 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/939500"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099429772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Rose</div> The Ancestor's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1636826 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1636826"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0753819961.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Earth: An Intimate History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288112 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288112"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706208.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Fortey</div> The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10755 <div id="position">31</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 Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9297 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9297"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1106777421_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Greene</div> The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3818739 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3818739"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B9tI7jkXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Davies</div> The Human Touch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3865082 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3865082"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SW9qjZhCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Frayn</div> The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969144 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969144"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John D. Barrow</div> The Music of the Primes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344186 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344186"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841155802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus du Sautoy</div> The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2261148 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2261148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/057122055X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45237604_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Chown</div> The Origin Of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977 <div id="position">38</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 Planets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2807115 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2807115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11CKHWV3ZKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3865083 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3865083"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W4BEJC5WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Greenfield</div> The Revenge of Gaia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3643593 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3643593"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Wd6qlc30L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Lovelock</div> The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2552193 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2552193"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393064980.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> The Secret Life of Trees (Penguin Press Science S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2059003 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2059003"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141012935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Tudge</div> The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979334 <div id="position">44</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> The Seven Daughters of Eve http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10971 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10971"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393323145.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439918_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bryan Sykes</div> The Weather Makers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3832580 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3832580"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ts1rNCjZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Flannery</div> Tomorrow's People : How 21St-Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105729 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105729"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141008881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Greenfield</div> What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10940 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10940"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320928.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Phillips Feynman</div> What Makes Us Human? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3865084 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3865084"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515tiEmcb7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Pasternak</div> Y : The Descent of Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17168 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17168"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618139303.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Jones</div>