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BIOGRAPHY
Madame Curie by Eve Curie [Doubleday]
Leonardo da Vinci by Kenneth Clark [Penguin]
Niels Bohr by Ruth Moore [MIT Press]
Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald Clark [Avon Books]
Ivan Pavlov by Jeffrey Gray [Penguin]
Narrative of the Life of a Slave by Frederick Douglass [Penguin]
Linus Pauling: In His Own Words [Simon & Schuster]
The Life and Times of Beethoven by John Burk [Random House]
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime [UC Berkeley]
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell [Bantam]
Issac Asimov: A Memoir [Bantam]
M K Gandhi: An Autobiography [Penguin]
Genius by James Gleick [Pantheon]
Naturalist by Edward O Wilson [Island Press]
The Joy of Insight by Victor Weiskopf [Basic Books]
Stephen Hawking by Michael White & John Gribbin [Penguin]
Gandhi by Louis Fischer [Penguin]
The Creative World of Mozart by Paul Henry Lang [Norton]
Cellini: Autobiography [Penguin]
Louis Pasteur by Rene Dubois [Da Capo]
A Streak of Luck: Thomas Alva Edison by Robert Conot [Bantam]
A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller [W H Freeman]
The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel [Scribner]
Einstein by Michael White and John Gribbin [Penguin]
What Little I Remember by Otto Frisch [Canto]
Abdus Salaam by Jagjit Singh [Penguin]
In Praise of Imperfection by Rita Levi Montalcini [Basic]
My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer [Unwin]
Models of My Life by Herbert A Simon [Basic Books]
Chandra by Kameshwar Wali [University of Chicago Press]
Haphazard Reality by Hendrik B G Casimir [Harper]
Atoms in the Family by Laura Fermi [University of Chicago Press]
Making Waves by Charles H Townes [American Institute of Physics Press]
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BIOGRAPHY
Apprentice to Genius [Johns Hopkins University Press]
Genes, Blood and Courage by David Nathan [Belknap / Harvard University Press]
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C Chaudhuri [Addison-Wesley]
Night by Elie Weisel [Bantam]
Marie Curie by Susan Quinn [Simon and Schuster]
A Miracle and a Privilege by Francis D Moore [Joseph Henry Press]
The Mold in Dr Florey’s Coat
Degrees Kelvin
POPULAR SCIENCE
Science and Music by Sir James Jeans [Dover]
Women of Science [Indiana University Press]
The Timeline Book of Science edited by Ochoa [Ballantine]
Science in History by J D Bernal [MIT Press]
A Short History of Science [Doubleday / Anchor Books]
Great Essays in Science edited by Martin Gardner [Pocket Books Inc]
The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick [Macmillan]
One Two Three...Infinity by George Gamow [Mentor/Dover]
The Closing Circle: Nature, Man & Technology by Barry Commoner [Bantam]
Selling Science: How the Press covers Science and Technology by D Nelkin [Freeman]
Nobel Prize Women in Science by McGrayne [Birch Lane Press, Brooklyn]
Reason in Science by George Santayana [Mentor]
The Origins of Scientific Thought by Giorgio de Santillana [Mentor]
Science and The Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead [Free Press]
The March of Unreason by Dick Taverne
Birth of the Mind by Gary Marcus
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MATHEMATICS
From Five Fingers to Infinity by Frank Swetz [Open Court]
Mathematics: Magic and Mystery by Martin Gardner [Dover]
Adventures of a Mathematician by S M Ulam [U of California Press]
The Mathematical Universe by William Dunham [Wiley]
Archimedes' Revenge by Paul Hoffman [Fawcett Crest]
A History of Mathematics by Carl Boyer & Uta Merzbach [John Wiley]
Calculus Gems by George Simmons [McGraw-Hill]
Thinking Machines by Irving Adler [Signet]
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos [Vintage Books]
A Mathematician Reads the News Paper by John Allen Paulos [Anchor]
Figuring by Shakuntala Devi [Penguin]
The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
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BIOLOGY - MEDICINE - CHEMISTRY
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi [Schocken]
Molecules by P W Atkins [Oxford]
Chemical Magic [Dover]
A Short History of Chemistry by J R Partington [Dover Publications]
The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob [Princeton University Press]
Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif [Pocket Books]
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horses by Carl Djerassi [Basic]
The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey [Basic Books]
The Eighth Day of Creation by Horace Freeland Judson [Simon & Schuster]
What Mad Pursuit by Francis Crick [Basic Books]
The Diversity of Life by Edward O Wilson [Harvard University Press]
Patenting The Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane Smith [Anchor]
The Youngest Science by Lewis Thomas [Bantam Books]
Science and the Quiet Art by Sir David Weatherall [Norton]
The Transforming Principle by Maclyn McCarty [W W Norton]
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene by Natalie Angier [Houghton Mifflin]
The Search for Eve by M H Brown [Harper and Row]
Exons, Introns and Talking Genes by C Wills [Basic Books]
The Path to the Double Helix [Dover]
Biotechnology by John Smith [Cambridge University Press]
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SCIENCE - SOCIETY - PHILOSOPHY - EDUCATION
Science, Liberty and Peace by Aldous Huxley [Harper]
Modern Science and Modern Man by James B Conant [Anchor]
Person and Places by George Santayana [Scribner]
Philosophical Aspects of Modern Science by C E M Joad [Unwin]
The Aims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead [Mentor Books]
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates [Viking]
Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead [Free Press]
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau [Dover]
Education and the Good Life by Bertrand Russel [Bonibooks]
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol [Crown Publishers]
Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead [Free Press]
The Death of Common Sense by Philip K Howard [Random House]
Science and Human Values by J Bronowski [Perennial / Harper & Row]
The Threat and the Glory by Peter Medawar [Oxford University Press]
The World As I See It by Albert Einstein [Philosophical Library, New York]
Is Science Necessary by Max Perutz [Oxford University Press]
The Voice of the Dolphins by Leo Szilard [Simon & Schuster]
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein [Bonanza Books]
The Heart of Philosophy by Jacob Needleman [Harper]
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead by Lucien Price [Mentor Books]
The Origins of Scientific Thought by Giorgio de Santillana [Mentor Books]
Science, Liberty and Peace by Aldous Huxley [Harper]
Reason in Science by George Santayana [Collier]
The Philosophy of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer [Macmillan]
Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza [Vintage Books / Random House]
The Lost Art of Healing by Bernard Lown [Houghton Mifflin]
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol [Crown]
The Decay and the Restoration of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer [Unwin]
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PHYSICS - ASTROPHYSICS - TECHNOLOGY
Biography of Physics by George Gamow [Harper]
The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose [Vintage]
Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg [Vintage]
The Charm of Physics by Sheldon Glashow [Simon & Schuster]
Thirty Years That Shook Physics by George Gamow [Dover Publications]
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav [Bantam Books]
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin [Black Swan/Corgi Books]
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes [Penguin]
Magnets by Francis Bitter [Doubleday/Anchor]
Brighter than a Thousand Suns by Robert Jungk [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]
The Media Lab by Stewart Brand [Viking]
Red Giants and White Dwarfs by Robert Jastrow [Signet]
Frontiers of Astronomy by Fred Hoyle [Mentor]
In Search of the Big Bang by John Gribbin [Corgi Books]
The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg [Basic Books/Harper Collins]
The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies [Basic Books/Harper Collins]
Being Digital by Nicolas Negroponte [MIT Press]
Guide to Earth and Space by Issac Asimov [Fawcett Crest]
Atomic Radiation and Life by Peter Alexander [Penguin]
Engineering in History [Dover]
Time Tables of Technology [Simon & Schuster]
A Short History of Technology [Dover]
Particle Garden [Addison-Wesley]
Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos [Basic Books]
Superstrings by David Peat [Contemporary Books]
Physics and Beyond by Werner Heisenberg [Harper]
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POLITICS - ECONOMICS - LAW
Atomic Rivals by Bertrand Goldschmidt [Rutgers University Press]
Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman [Stanford University Press]
History of Political Philosophy by Strauss & Cropsey [U of Chicago]
The Nature of True Virtue by Jonathan Edwards [U of Michigan Press]
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman [University of Chicago Press]
An Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Levin [University of Chicago Press]
Looking at the Sun by James Fallows [Pantheon]
The Age of Diminished Expectations by Paul Krugman [MIT Press]
The Ends of the Earth by Robert D Kaplan [Random House]
A Life in Peace and War by Sir Brian Urquhart [Harper & Row]
Straitjacket Soceity by Masao Miyamoto [Kodansha]
Power by Bertrand Russell [Unwin]
Introduction to Politics by Harold Laski [Unwin]
Economics of Public Issues by Norton & Miller [Harper & Row]
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger [Simon & Schuster]
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
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ART - CLASSICS - LITERATURE
The Arts in the World Economy by Robison [Salzburg/New England]
Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland [Harvard University Press]
The Culture of Ancient Egypt by John Wilson [U of Chicago Press]
To Sir With Love by E R Braithwaite [Pyramid]
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell [Unwin]
On Relationships by Krishnamurti [Harper Collins]
The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa [Penguin]
The Masters by C P Snow [Scribners]
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald [Scribners]
Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Harper]
Love in the Time of Cholera by G G Marquez [Knopf]
The Odyssey by Homer [Penguin]
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe [Holt, Rinehart, Winston]
Animal Farm by George Orwell [Penguin]
Existentialism by Jean Paul Sartre [Wisdom Library]
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway [Scribners]
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West [New Classics]
Mother by Maxim Gorky [FLPH, Moscow]
Variety of Men by C P Snow [Penguin]
Baroque by John Rupert Martin [Harper & Row]
A Documentary History of Art by Elizabeth G Holt [Anchor]
The Renaissance by Walter Pater [Mentor]
The Sense of Beauty by George Santayana [Dover]
Dawn by Elie Weisel [Bantam]
The Reawakening by Primo Levi [Collier]
Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell [Bantam]
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie [Penguin]
The Tales of Genji by Lady Murasaki [Anchor]
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann [Vintage]
The Greeks by H D F Kitto [Penguin]
The Longest Journey by Edward Morgan Forster [Vintage]
Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell [Unwin]
Knowledge, Morality and Destiny by Julian Huxley [Mentor]
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ART - CLASSICS - LITERATURE
Dead Certainties by Simon Schama [Knopf]
A Passage to India by Edward Morgan Forster [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]
The Art of Egypt by I Woldering [Greystone]
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde [Dover]
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton [Dover]
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [Berkeley Windhover]
The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse by Jack Zipes [Bantam]
Japanese Literature by Donald Keene [Grove]
Romola by George Eliot [World Classics]
Silas Marner by George Eliot [World Classics]
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot [World Classics]
Middlemarch by George Eliot [World Classics]
Adam Bede by George Eliot [World Classics]
Mill on the Floss by George Eliot [World Classics]
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert [World Classics]
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald {penguin]
Howard's End by E M Forster [Norton]
Maurice by E M Forster [Penguin]
Room With a View by E M Forster [World Classics]
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [Bantam]
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry [Penguin]
Lord of the Flies by William Golding [Oxford]
Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy [Oxford]
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy [Macmillan]
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy [Penguin]
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne [Penguin]
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway [World Classics]
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway [Free Press]
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway [World Classics]
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck [Harper]
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck [Penguin]
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck [Penguin]
The Pearl by John Steinbeck [Penguin]
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ART - CLASSICS - LITERATURE
The Iliad by Homer [World Classics]
Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen [World Classics]
Ulysses by James Joyce [World Classics]
The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka [Penguin]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [Penguin]
Persuasion by Jane Austen [Penguin]
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [World Classics]
Emma by Jane Austen [World Classics]
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [World Classics]
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte [Random House]
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [Random House]
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck [Penguin]
Don Quixote by Cervantes [Penguin]
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer [World Classics]
The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri [World Classics]
Inferno by Dante Alighieri [World Classics]
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Chancellor]
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Chancellor]
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Chancellor]
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Chancellor]
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner [Penguin]
Light in August by William Faulkner [Bantam]
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Vintage]
A Bend in the River by V S Naipul [Penguin]
Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence [Penguin]
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham [World Classics]
Forty Stories by Anton Chekov [Viking]
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger [Penguin]
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy [World Classics]
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [World Classics]
Dr Zhivago by Leo Tolstoy [World Classics]
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton [Dover]
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [Penguin]
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