Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey
John Barnett and Roald Hoffman
5 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Serhii Plokhy, Ralph Lister, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments
507 Mechanical Movements
Henry T. Brown
4.5 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Scott Galloway, Jonathan Todd Ross, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Stone
William Hall
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
John Yudkin and Robert H. Lustig
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Jungle: A Photicular Book
Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard
4.9 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Signals and Systems
Alan Oppenheim, Alan Willsky, et al.
4.1 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (Farm Animal Photography Book)
Traer Scott
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
Joan Druett
4.5 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Michio Kaku
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
John Rumble
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
Josh Tickell and Terry Tamminen
4.8 on Amazon
3 HN comments
jonnathansononSep 20, 2012
All of Michio Kaku's physics books are pretty solid, even if there's a bit of overlap among them. "Physics of the Future," for instance, is a decent examination of what he believes will actually be realized in 10, 20, 100, 1000, etc., years. It's a good companion piece to "Impossible."
hownottowriteonApr 4, 2015
Dust by Joseph Amato
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
Most collections by Stephen Jay Gould (though I like "I Have Landed")
espinchionNov 9, 2015
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Future-Science-Shape-Destiny-e...