Topics in Contemporary Science
Suggested Books
These are books that you might want to read this quarter.
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Growing Artificial Societies by Joshua Epstein
and Robert Axtell
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Born to Rebel by Frank Sulloway
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Three Degrees Above Zero by Jeremy Bernstein
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The Tenth Dimension
by Jeremy Bernstein
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Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
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Alvarez by Luis Alvarez
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How We Die by Sherwin Nuland (National Book Award, 1993)
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The Media Lab by Stewart Brand
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Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
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A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube by Salvador Luria
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The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Pulitzer Prize, 1993)
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Nobel Dreams by Gary Taubes
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Bad Science by Gary Taubes
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The Physics of Baseball by Robert Adair
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Divorce Among the Gulls by William Jordan
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Sex on the Brain by Deborah Blum
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How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
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The Double Helix by James Watson
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Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Nuel Pharr Davis
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last modified January 24, 1999