ERIN'S LIST OF COOL SCIENCE TYPE BOOKS:

Stephen Hawking
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
Bantam Books, NY, 1988, 1996

Steven Weinberg
THE FIRST THREE MINUTES – A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), New York, NY, 1977, 1988, 1993

Paul Davies
THE LAST THREE MINUTES – Conjectures about the ultimate fate of the universe
BasicBooks (subsidiary of Perseus Books, LLC), NY, 1994

Edwin A. Abbott
FLATLAND - A Romance of Many Dimensions
Harper & Row, NY, originally published in 1880's
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Dionys Burger
SPHERELAND - A Fantasy About Curved Spaces & an Expanding Universe
Harper & Row, NY, 1965

Richard P. Feynman
QED – The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1985

Brian Greene
THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE - SUPERSTRINGS & DIMENSIONS
W. W. Norton & Company, NY, 1999

Brian Greene
THE FABRIC of the COSMOS - SPACE, TIME & REALITY
W. W. Norton & Company, NY, 1999

Brian Greene
THE HIDDEN REALITY - PARALLEL UNIVERSES
W. W. Norton & Company, NY, 1999

Peter D. Ward & Donald Brownlee
RARE EARTH - Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Copernicus, Springer-Verlag, NY, 2000

Ursula Goodenough
THE SACRED DEPTHS of NATURE
Oxford University Press, Oxford, NY, 1998

Tim Flannery
THE ETERNAL FRONTIER - An Ecological History of North America and it's Peoples
Grove Press, NY, 2001

Michael Pollan
THE BOTANY of DESIRE - A Plant's Eye View of the World
Random House, NY, 2001

T. M. Helliwell
Intorduction to Special Relativity
Allyn and Bacon, Inc.  Boston, MA, 1966, 1967

Walter Isaacson
EINSTEIN - His Life and Universe
Simon & Schuster, NY, 2007