 | Cosmos: Carl Sagan (7 DVD Set)
Buy new: $86.99 / Used from: $69.00 Modern. 12 Episodes about the Universe and just about everything in it presented masterfully by Carl Sagan. This is the series that spawned a generation of scientists. You can also buy the book.
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 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy used from: $2.97 Classic. The meaning of life. All living organisms are evolving from a common ancestor by means of natural selection.
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 | The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $6.99 My favorite book on evolution next to Origin. It is extremely advanced for the experienced reader but offers some of the most remarkable thoughts on evolution I have ever had.
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 | The Ascent of Man (5 volume set)
Buy new: $129.99 / Used from: $117.95 Modern. The ascent of man is the ascent of science. Jacob Bronowski's masterpiece 13 part documentary about the history of man and the history of science inspired Carl Sagan to make "Cosmos".
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.94 Modern. Evolution with a focus on disproving alternatives such as intelligent design. This is biology made interesting like nothing you have read before.
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 | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.79 Modern. Explaining the universe in terms of fundamental particles. This is the book you will be reading for quite some time to come. It is a book with a level of understanding that requires a progressive intellect to grasp. You will turn back to this constantly.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $3.30 This is maybe the most popular challange to the supernatural ever written.
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 | Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.12 Modern. Like a sequel to The Blind Watchmaker. A walkthrough that describes with lots of illustrations and photographs how natural selection works.
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.94 Modern. More on evolution and genetics with a focus on gene motivated behaviour.
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 | Evolution Boxed Set
Buy new: $67.49 / Used from: $52.86 Modern. Evolution from PBS Nova. This is an amazing presentation of the fact of evolution along with hours upon hours of fossils, DNA and everything to do with this fact of biology.
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 | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $3.54 Modern. Evolution backwards with lots of illustrations. This is an amazing take on the evolution of life.
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Buy used from: $79.99 This is David Attenborough's "Life on Earth". It is a Region 2 disc. Natural science done by gradual steps from primordial earth to modern times. Works on the same model of 13 episodes as Cosmos. Get it if you can find it.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.87 The history of science. Get the illustrated version if you can.
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 | The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.14 Classic. Evolution of man by Darwin. The classic that explained the evolution of humans but concentrates mainly on sexual selection.
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 | On Human Nature: Revised Edition by Edward O. Wilson
Buy new: $16.92 / Used from: $11.99 Modern. Sociobiology of the human being. Explains the ethics and morals of human beings through evolution.
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 | Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.50 Philosophy advanced science and science is given human meaning by philosophy. This is an exceptional read of philosophy throughout the ages.
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 | Adaptation and Natural Selection by George Christopher Williams
Buy new: $16.78 / Used from: $12.24 Classic. Developed the gene-centered view of evolution but difficult even at the best of times.
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 | The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $27.94 This is David Attenborough's follow up to 'Life on Earth'. It has a stronger focus on how the environment shapes life. Also watch the rest of the Life series if you can as well as "Lost Worlds Vanished Lives". It is a crime that they are only on region 2 discs.
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 | The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.86 Modern. A very popular type of "Brief History of Time" book by Brian Greene with extended topics on string theory.
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 | Introducing the Universe, Third Edition (Introducing...) by Felix Pirani
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $3.82 Modern. This is reality described and explained the easy way. It covers classical physics, relativity, quantum theory and beyond. This makes everything easier to follow.
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 | Introducing Newton, Third Edition (Introducing...) by William Rankin
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $1.04 Modern. This is a very good introduction to classical physics with a focus on Newton after Greek and classic discoveries.
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 | Introducing Relativity, New Edition (Introducing... S.) by Bruce Bassett
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $4.97 Modern. Macro universe explained. This is relativity both general and special.
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 | Introducing Quantum Theory by J. P. McEvoy
Buy used from: $2.00 Modern. Micro universe explained. Quantum theory explained by quantum mechanics.
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 | Principles of Geology (Penguin Classics) by Charles Lyell
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $9.50 Classic. This is the book that challanged the age of the Earth and how it was formed.
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 | Einstein for Beginners by Joseph Schwartz
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.42 Modern. This is a good easy to understand biography of the life and times of Einstein. It is an introduction to the scientific revolution that followed Newton.
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 | Introducing Time, Third Edition (Introducing (Icon)) by Craig Callender
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.44 Modern. This is the history of the thought about time but sets the bases for Einstein and Quantum Mechanisms.
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 | The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe by Steven Weinberg
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $3.89 Modern. The book about the Big Bang that changed cosmology written in 1977. Things have changed since then but this is the one Hawking liked.
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 | The Age of the Earth by G. Dalrymple
Buy new: $30.77 / Used from: $14.95 Modern. Geology. The earth is 4,500,000,000 (4.5 Billion)years old and this book explains why.
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 | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.99 Modern. Reads like Hawking's "A brief history of time" but goes for superstring explanations. Like Hawking's book you will be reading it for some time to come. It however it is 3 times the mass of Hawking's book... but maybe easier to follow because of that.
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 | NOVA - The Elegant Universe
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $9.94 Modern. This is a documentary presentation of Greene's Elegent Universe in 3 hours. Great companion for the book.
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 | Introducing Mathematics, New Edition (Introducing... S.) by Ziauddin Sardar
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $2.00 Modern. Get this and buy a calculator. Learn the instruction manual. The language of science is mathematics. Mathematics is not hard, it is actually very simple... just boring if there is no need for it. The need comes next. Breaking down the universe and applying the math. If you want to read advanced books on the universe then you need mathematics.
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 | Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
Buy new: $37.12 / Used from: $17.95 Modern. This is the work that explains all animal behaviour as the result of evolution and genes.
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 | On The Shoulders Of Giants by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: $15.80 / Used from: $1.94 Classic. BIG BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. Copernicus "On the Revolutions of [the] Heavenly Spheres". Galileo "Dialogues [or Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations] Concerning Two [New] Sciences". Kepler "Harmonies of the World". Newton "The Mathematical Priciples of Natural Philosophy". Einstein "The Principles of Relativity: A Collection of Original Papers on the Special Theory of Relativity".
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 | From the Earth to the Moon - The Signature Edition
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.83 Drama series about man in space from the first test flights to the landings on the moon. This drama will make you want to become a scientist.
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 | Civilisation: The Complete Series
Buy new: $56.99 / Used from: $54.61 Modern. It is Civilisations that we need to understand if we are to explore human development. Kenneth Clark's masterpiece 13 part documentary about the history of civlisations is based on the arts and inspired Jacob Bronowski to make "The Ascent of Man" which in turn inspired Carl Sagan to make "Cosmos".
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 | Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Clarkson
Buy new: $75.32 / Used from: $44.50 Modern. A book about the fossil record.
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 | Matter and Motion (Dover Books on Physics and Chemistry) by James Clerk Maxwell
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $4.29 Classic. Maxwell was responsible for electromagnetism unification and much work in quantum theory.
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 | The Mechanical Universe: From Kepler to Einstein (VHS)
Modern. The Mechanical Universe is a 52-part telecourse filmed at the California Institute of Technology. I would research how to get the series. It maybe the most important educational series on physics you can get.
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 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.00 Modern. Shows how the Atomic Bomb was made along with the science and politics of the times.
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