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Life-changing books: recommendations from 17 leading scientists
Project: The Total Library

Via NewScientist.com

1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist
2. The Art of the Soluble - V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist
3. Animal Liberation - Jane Goodall, primatologist
4. The Foundation trilogy - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
5. Alice in Wonderland - Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist
6. One, Two, Three... Infinity - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist
7. The Idea of a Social Science - Harry Collins, sociologist of science
8. Handbook of Mathematical Functions - Peter Atkins, chemist
9. The Mind of a Mnemonist - Oliver Sacks, neurologist
10. A Mathematician’s Apology - Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
11. The Leopard - Susan Greenfield, neurophysiologist
12. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior - Frans de Waal, psychologist and ethologist
13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes - Lawrence Krauss, physicist
14. William James, Writings 1878-1910 - Daniel Everett, linguist
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Chris Frith, neuroscientist
16. The Naked Ape - Elaine Morgan, author of The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
17. King Solomon's Ring - Marion Stamp Dawkins, Zoologist

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Tue, Apr 22, 2008 Permanent link
I read this article with interest and was incredibly disappointed at the way Michio Kaku blatantly used the feature to promote his new book. It tainted my opinion of the whole thing. Great idea though. I wonder if they've been following The Total Library...

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Tue, Apr 22, 2008 Permanent link
Interesting, if not all of them are quite my cup of library tea. I agree with Obvious - trashy input from Kaku was a real drag. That sort of intrusive behaviour really spoils my mood.

What cheered me up, though, was your choice of picture for this post. I love pictures of libraries stacked with books. Especially big libraries.

I love

the regularity of the arrangement of volumes
the desperate and constant reigning into order of their slightly less regular shapes (by shelves)
the knowledge that inside each one is yet another, rougher, feigned neatness that has been squeezed first from the head of a person who has made to himself or herself sense of the world
and behind it all, at the beginning, all the raw, jumbled ways things are.

And after all these layers of interpretation and categorising and cataloguing, we have an enormous, incomprehensibly comprehensive list of perceived or imagined states of affairs, almost as bizarre as our starting point, overwhelming, but navigable by its artifice. Then we take a snapshot.

When future generations ask about the old libraries, people will have to say:

"like information, built."

(There was another library picture here. Let's have some more!)

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