i used the search function and couldn't find a thread about good books. I think we need a thread just to share the wealth of knowledge. As we all know books are expensive in our country and to buy them all is almost impossible to your average malaysian. So why not list the good books here and maybe do a littel review. That way the people in this forum will know which book to read and what to avoid

let me start with a book i purchased just over 8 months ago and now rereading it for the 3rd time. Its really that good



This book is a really good jumping point for those interested in learning the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry , astro physics, geology and biology are well represented in this book. it chronicled the human journey to learn about his surrounding. the story are interesting, hilarious, tragic and can make you go " wow..... that is just AWESOME!".

for instance from this book we can learn that Newton's important Principia would not have been written if a fellow scientist didnt bothered Newton with a little calculation he was having troubel with. From that one ANNOYING question newton ends up writing the 3 volumes of principia. it is also interesting to read that newton was famous for his laziness to write. see even geniuses have faults in their character!

i strongly recommend this book to all science fans. its chock full of cool trivias and i end up reading about all the characters in the book in WIKI. so i end up knowing more and discovering people i never knew existed but contributed alot to science

you can find it in Boreders and MPH for 39.90...... it will be one of the best book in your collection ever!

This post has been edited by Mark_Renton: Aug 20 2009, 10:47 PM

Cool books there...its written in simple layman form or with lots of scientific terms? Thanks for sharing by the way...

It's always Discover for me.

As it covers sustainability,environment,general sciences and cool shit in one book.

DIscover.. its the magazine is it? I love NEW SCIENTIST. when i was taking A Level i subscribe to that weekly magazine. these days i pick it up every 2 weeks. too expensive!!!

This post has been edited by Mark_Renton: Aug 20 2009, 11:17 PM

I get the discover from my office, as well as the national geographic.

too deep for my brains

I love his slot machine analogy for the chance of having life on Planet Earth.

Yes, simply a must read for lover of science and dare I say it, believer of the higher power!!

Not Discovery.It's crap.

Discover is awesome.

New Scientist is pretty good too.

Jared Diamond's Collapse is an awesome book. Read it when you can get it so you can understand why some civilizations just disappear from history.

Brian Clegg's A Brief History of Infinity was a good airplane read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brief-History-Infi...e/dp/1841196509

cheers

It depends on what kind of books you're into, science as a general field with concepts introduced to the layman or in depth textbook style reads.

Its architecture/construction Science

For General Science


For Futuristic Science

Stem Cell Hope, by alice park..great book

This post has been edited by tortoise_bobo: Apr 13 2013, 10:02 PM

You might want to check out Bill Bryson "A short history of nearly everything". This book have won many awards. I found this book very entertaining~

Another 1 is "Why evolution is true" by Jerry Coyne, this book you can treat it as layman or academic reading. It has the facts but it rather make me feels like story-telling.

Another that my friend was recommending me to read is The fabric of the cosmos by Brian Greene, I haven't read it though