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Non-fiction science book recommendations thread.

Gogo.

>> No.2658519
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnCJqDa1us

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Just Six Numbers by Martin J. Rees

>> No.2658536

The Demon-Haunted World

>> No.2658539

Games: Dues Ex: IW, Knights of the Old Republic.

>> No.2658540

Oh God, is that a real photo?

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Time to wake up, sheeple:

http://www.lloydpye.com/

>> No.2658550

>>2658519
Thank you!

>> No.2658552
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Also, this.

>> No.2658556

>>2658548

What is this? Creationist bullshit?

>> No.2658560

>>2658552

http://www.google.com/search?UTF-8&q=define:non-fiction

>> No.2658566

>>2658556
Not quite. It's a different, alien-flavored kind of bullshit.

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>>2658540

Yes.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins (sequel to Selfish Gene)
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

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>>2658552
oh please its common knowledge that david icke works for the luciferian globalist un new world order and is trying to fool us but when the elohim come everyone will be saved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vUn29eyRAE
...or something like that

>> No.2658572

Why We Get Sick by Randolph Gesse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnCJqDa1us

Awesome interview.

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>>2658572

*Nesse

My bad.

>> No.2658578

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. The AIDS stuff will make you rage.

>> No.2658579

>>2658570
I was blind, but now I can see.

>> No.2658590

if you're into pop science asimov wrote a couple good books (those're probably outdated by now but that's what I know off the top of my head).

If you want the serious shit get a JSTOR account and start reading journals or something.

>> No.2658591 [DELETED] 

Wishlisted.

Looks interesting.

>> No.2658613

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Buy it, work though it

>> No.2658636

>>2658578

Wishlisted.

Looks interesting.

>> No.2658647

>>2658578
I second this. Parts of it are really funny, but it's both depressing and frightening to read some other parts of it. If you like the book you could check out Goldacre's blog too. (or, I guess, vice-versa)

>> No.2658655

Chaos, by james gleick

you will either dislike it or will never see the world (and science, if you do science) the same (in a good way--I think)

also Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by robert sapolsky

>> No.2658670

>>2658655
>you will either dislike it or will never see the world (and science, if you do science) the same (in a good way--I think)
Does that mean it's all about the "philosophy" of science?

>> No.2658684

>>2658670
I just noticed that the quotes make it look as if I meant to patronize philosophy. I was really just asking, though, no discrimination intended.

>> No.2658890

Bamp for books.

>> No.2659115

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for all Creation is the greatest popular science book ever written

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>>2659115
fap to author

>> No.2659206

>>2658684
Not that anon, but Chaos is supposed to be a "different" kind of science because of the nonlinearity of the equations involved and because of the intuitiveness and surprising effectiveness of fractal geometry. That said, the book is 20 years old and there must be something newer and updated available.

I recommend The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by Thomas Kuhn

>> No.2659268

<--------Bad science by Ben Goldacre. This guy should be a hero of /sci/.

It's a brit-fag-centred and at one or two points seems to assume his readers are all male (which annoyed me somewhat) but imo it's a total must.

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Hate when this happens >:(.

>>2659268

>> No.2659379

>>2659268

Girls on my /sci/?

>> No.2659458

>>2659379
Impossible.

>> No.2659465

>>2659379

nah, i'm just all into my anti-discrimination (regardless of what differences exist "in general").

I mean, you don't exactly encourage those girls who do have an interest in independantly learning science by making them feel like outsiders.