Saturday 11 June 2011

Bestselling Science Books

1) Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway


The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda.



2) Climate Change Denial by Hayden Washington and John Cook



Shows how we can break through denial, accept reality, and thus solve the climate crisis. The authors examine the nature of climate change denial, its history, how we let denial prosper, and how we can roll back denial.



3) Hidden Reality by Brian Greene



Explores our most current understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our continuing quest to know more. The Hidden Reality reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics - relativistic, quantum, cosmological, unified, computational - have all led us to consider one or another variety of parallel universe.



4) The Business of Nature: John Gould and Australia by Roslyn Russell



A tale of enduring love and of a man’s unending ability to see beauty in nature, despite the greatest of life’s tragedies.



5) The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch



In this important new book David Deutsch, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor.

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