Microcosmos
by Lynn Margulis | 
What is Life?
by Addy Pross | 
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell |
Chance and Necessity
by Jacques Monod | 
The Growth of Biological Thought
by Ernst Mayr | 
Power, Sex, Suicide
by Nick Lane | 
The Vital Question
by Nick Lane | 
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson | 
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Einstein and the Quantum
by A. Douglas Stone | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant | 
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Universe
by Martin Rees | 
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy | 
Theoretical Physics
by Georg Joos | 
Murmurs of Earth
by Carl Sagan |
Why do living things and physical phenomena take the forms they do? Analyzing the mathematical and physical aspects of biological processes, this historic work, first published in 1917, has become renowned as well for the poetry of is descriptions.