Dmitri's Bookshelf: Science and History Books Wishlist

Complexity

• Edward R. Tufte:
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte - $15 used, $45 new
  • Visual Explanations
  • Envisioning Information
• How to think Like Leonardo DaVinci
• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John H. Holland, Heather Mimnaugh (ed) - $6 used
• Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-László Barabási - $10
• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang - $45 used
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

Cognitive Science

• History of the Concept of Mind by Paul S. MacDonald
• The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, by Geoffrey Miller
• The Power of Babel : A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
• Socionomics: The Science of History and Social Prediction by Robert Prechter
• Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson ~$15
• Maps of the Mind by Charles Hampden-Turner; Hardcover - $20 used
• The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - $10
• The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think by Robert Aunger - $18
• The Other End of the Leash - learning to communicate better with dogs.
• The Evolution of Cooperation
• The Ants, by Bert Hölldobler + Edward O. Wilson

History

• The Victorian underworld by Kellow Chesney
• Medicinal and other uses of North American Plants
• Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
• A Midwife's Tale
• A History of Ohio
• Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Marshall
• Early India - From the Origins to AD 1300

Physics

• Nanotechnology: A gentle introduction
• Disturbing the Universe by Freeman J. Dyson - $4 used
• From Eros to Gaia by Freeman J. Dyson. (audio cpl)
• Anything by Richard Feynman (audio cpl)
• The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart - $18 used

Evolution

• The Red Queen
• Dougal Dixon: After Man: A Zoology of the Future - $5 used
• Richard Ellis: Aquagenesis : The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea
• Stephen Jay Gould: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory - $20 used
• Alison Jolly: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
• Steve Olson: Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes - $15
• Leonard B. Radinsky: The Evolution of Vertebrate Design

Space Exploration

• Frederick Ordway: Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection
• Marc Lachieze-Rey & al: Celestial Treasury : From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space

Mechanics and Electricity

• Boatowner's Illustrated Handbook of Wiring by Charlie Wing
• The Boy Electrician

Mathematics

• Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth
• Leonard Mlodinow: Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
• James Callahan et al.: Calculus in Context: The Five College Calculus Project