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这是一份“来源大众”的大众科学书籍推荐清单。在
在几周前我写了一篇名为“你能不能推荐一本大众科学书籍?”的博客。我在寻找大众认为每一个人都应该阅读的书籍。这些你推荐的书籍应该适合那些对于科学知之甚少或者根本就从未读过科学相关书籍的人。
我把这篇博客投放了几个星期来寻求更多的推荐书目。鉴于现在已经没有推荐再被提出,我认为我应该最终将这些书籍整理到一个单子里。
我必须要强调,这不是我列的清单。我仅仅阅读过下面所列清单中的几本书(大约十本);我个人并不能保证清单上书籍的质量。他们仅仅作为“必读书目”在博客回复中被推荐。
这是要求的摘录:
页数不要过多——如果你推荐了一本500到600页的书籍,人们可能会延期阅读他们。(我已经移除了这一条要求。如果某人认为一本书是“必读书目”那么它应该出现在清单上。同时,根据被提供书籍页码数量你可以自己决定他们对你来说是否过长了。)
适合于从未学过科学的人。
仔细想想我是否可以把这本书推荐给对<嵌入科学领域>知之甚少或一无所知的人。
这本书应该相对便宜且容易获得。
另外,当然,这绝对不是最后的清单——如果你感觉有一本书应该是在这个清单上的,请务必通过推特或者评论“你能不能推荐一本大众科学书籍?”这篇博客来让我知道。
这个清单并不存在特定的顺序——书籍从字面上是按照推荐给给我的顺序列出的,如果你最喜欢的书籍出现在清单底部别生气。
然而,出现在清单前十四本的书是被大多数人推荐的。Bill Bryson’s 的书被非常多的人推荐——甚至音频版也被推荐过。如果你从未读过科学书籍,建议你从这本开始阅读。
“必读”的大众科学书目清单(最后更新于2013年7月25日)
1. A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson (423 pages if you ignore the notes!)
2. Bad Science - by Ben Goldacre (288 pages).
3. Your Inner Fish - by Neil Shubin (256 pages).
4. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years - by Jared M. Diamond (425 pages if you ignore the references!)
5. The Demon-haunted World - Carl Sagan (436 pages).
6. Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History- by Stephen Jay Gould (353 pages).
7. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution - by Nick Lane (352 pages).
8. The Disappearing Spoon - by Sam Kean (400 pages).
9. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - by David Quammen (592 pages).
10. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius - Graham Farmelo (560 pages).
11. The Periodic Table - by Primo Levi (224 pages).
12. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures - by Carl Zimmer (288 pages).
13. The Beak of the Finch: Story of Evolution in Our Time – Jonathan Weiner (352 pages).
14. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot (384 pages).
15. The Code Book - by Simon Singh (402 pages).
16. Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You - by Marcus Chown (224 pages).
17. The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins (384 pages).
18. Supersense: From Superstition to Religion – The Brain Science of Belief - by Bruce Hood (320 pages).
19. Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts - by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (304 pages).
20. Antimatter - by Frank Close (176 pages).
21. Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained - by Richard Feynman (176 pages).
22. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution - by Richard Fortey (256 pages).
23. Last Chance to See - by Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine (224 pages).
24. Paranormality - by Richard Wiseman (336 pages).
25. The Origin of Virtue - by Matt Ridley (302 pages).
26. How to Lie with Statistics - by Darrell Huff (128 pages).
27. The Ambidextrous Universe - by Martin Gardner (416 pages).
28. Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the message from the beginning of time - by Marcus Chown (288 pages).
29. We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe - by Marcus Chown (288 pages).
30. Nonsense on Stilts - by Massimo Pigliucci (336 pages).
31. Stiffs: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - by Mary Roach (304 pages).
32. The Left Hand of the Electron (PDF) – by Isaac Asimov (225 pages).
33. Philosophy of Science – Very Short Introductions - by Samir Okasha (160 pages).
34. Relativity – Very Short Introductions - by Russell Stannard (128 pages).
35. QED (The Strange Theory of Light and Matter) - by Richard Feynman (176 pages).
36. Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life - by Carl Zimmer (256 pages).
37. The Alchemy of Air - by Tom Hager (336 pages).
38. The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code - by Sam Kean (432 pages).
39. Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right is Wrong - by David Bradley (192 pages).
40. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life – Science Masters - by Richard Dawkins (224 pages).
41. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages - by Guy Deutscher (320 pages).
42. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences - by John Allen Paulos (160 pages).
43. Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life - by Enrico Coen (360 pages).
44. Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum - Richard Fortey (320 pages).
45. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth - by James Lovelock (176 pages).
46. Chaos: Making a New Science - by James Gleick (368 pages).
47. The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth’s Deep History - by Jan Zalasiewicz (256 pages).
48. Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA - by Maryn McKenna (288 pages).
49. Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us - by Maggie Koerth-Baker (304 pages).
50. Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements - by Hugh Aldersey-Williams (448 pages).
51. H2O: A Biography of Water - by Philip Ball (400 pages).
52. Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body - by Armand Marie Leroi (320 pages).
53. The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World - by Sean Carroll (352 pages).
54. Why Evolution is True - Jerry A. Coyne (336 pages).
55. Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need To Know About It - Simon Singh (544 pages).
56. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - by Andrew Smith (384 pages).
57. Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex - by Aarathi Prasad (288 pages).
58. Massive: The Higgs Boson and the Greatest Hunt in Science - by Ian Sample (352 pages).
59. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - by Brian Greene (464 pages).
60. Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World - by Angela Saini (288 pages).
61. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing Hoax - by Phil Plait (288 pages).
62. The Ascent of Man - by Jacob Bronowski (352 pages).
63. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate Our Universe - by Lisa Randall (464 pages).
64. Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All- by Rose Shapiro (304 pages).
65. Life in the Universe: A Beginner’s Guide - by Lewis Dartnell (224 pages).
66. Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System - by Ray Jayawardhana (280 pages).
67. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan (334 pages).
68. Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth - by Brian Switek (320 pages).
69. The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science - by Natalie Angier (304 pages).
70. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space - by Mary Roach (312 pages).
71. The Eye: A Natural History - by Simon Ings (336 pages).
72. What Is This Thing Called Science? - by A.F. Chalmers (288 pages).
73. Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World - by Bruce Schneier (448 pages).
74. Risk - by John Adams (224 pages).
75. Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins - by Ian Tattersall (288 pages).
76. The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin - by Francis Spufford (240 pages).
77. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary - by Caspar Henderson (336 pages).
78. Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World - by Phil Plait (336 pages).
79. Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics - by Misha Angrist (352 pages).
80. From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time - by Sean Carroll (448 pages).
81. The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy - by Seth Mnookin (439 pages).
82. My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time - by Lone Frank (336 pages).
83. The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China’s Political Animal - by Henry Nicholls (224 pages).
84. Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science - by Jim Al-Khalili (336 pages).
85. The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology - by Anil Ananthaswamy (336 pages).
86. Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain - by David Eagleman (304 pages).
87. The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began - by Stuart Clark (224 pages).
88. Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences - by Cordelia Fine (368 pages).
89. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality - by Manjit Kumar (464 pages).
90. Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-1949 - by Jim Baggott (480 pages).
91. The 4-Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality - by Richard Panek (288 pages).
92. The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life - by Alison Gopnik (304 pages).
93. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding - by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (432 pages).
94. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming – by Mike Brown (271 pages).
95. The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning – by Daniel Bor (352 pages).
96. The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe– by Theodore Gray (240 pages).
97. Thirty Years That Shook Physics: Story of Quantum Theory – by George Gamow (240 pages).
98. Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines – by Richard A. Muller (384 pages).
99. A Universe from Nothing – by Lawrence M. Krauss (224 pages).
100. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature– by Matt Ridley (416 pages).
101. Dr.Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex – by Olivia Judson (320 pages).
102. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – by Oliver Sacks (256 pages).
103. The Blind Watchmaker – by Richard Dawkins (368 pages).
104. The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates – by Frans De Waal (304 pages).
105. A Tale of Seven Elements – by Eric Scerri (200 pages).
鸣谢
以上列表中有几本书是我推荐的,但主要部分是以下这些人推荐的:
Robin Ince, Rob, Alun Salt, Martin Orman, Mark Lewney, Mike Ward, John Tweedie, Sam Hawkswell, Ed Yong, Rob Sharp,Andrea Sella, Bob, Lewis Dartnell, Neil Denny, Alok Jha, Eva Amsen, Stuart Cantrill, See Arr Oh, Graham Steel, Matthew Hartings, Richard Van Noorden, Jon Turney, Dorothy Bishop,Dr Neil Martin, Sarah Mount, Abigail Amey, Martyn Norris, Rob McD, Simon Vessey, Liz Lutgendorff, Peter Harrison, Drew Rae,colsmudge, Julian Onions, Mark Lorch, Stephen J Henstridge,Steve Cook, John Read, Stuart, Jon Treadway, Chrissy Mitchell, Eamon, Sandra, Eleanor Baker, Pep Anton Vieta, Dave Steele,Matthew Wold, GrrlScientist, Gary Burness, Ladislas Reventlov,Brendan Murray, Colin Donovan, Ron Schuck, sciencegirl, Bill Pope, Eric Lawton.
谢谢
最后但并不是不重要,感谢Stephen Curry的原始创意。
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