Best non-science books for scientists

Kuvaus
Scientists and engineers proverbially don't read, especially not books with pages and pages of text unrelieved by matrices or partial differential equations. So, which books from the arts and humanities might stand a chance of breaking through into the scientific mind?
1
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
tekijä: Edward R. Tufte
5,118 jäsentä
56 arvostelua
½ 4.4
3 Members
pammab, smcwl, C4RO
2
How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
tekijä: Mortimer J. Adler
7,598 jäsentä
75 arvostelua
4
2 Members
smcwl, aulsmith
Selitykset
aulsmith: This will give them a good solid idea of what they might get out of reading non-science.
3
Näkemisen tavat
tekijä: John Berger
4,958 jäsentä
59 arvostelua
4
2 Members
smcwl, abbottthomas
4
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age
tekijä: Simon Schama
1,565 jäsentä
12 arvostelua
4.1
2 Members
cpg, thorold
5
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
tekijä: E. H. Gombrich
1,093 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
6
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
tekijä: Gunther Kress
131 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 3.5
2 Members
pammab, smcwl
7
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
tekijä: Marvin Harris
1,205 jäsentä
19 arvostelua
3.8
Member
C4RO
8
Seven Types of Ambiguity
tekijä: William Empson
829 jäsentä
12 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
9
Anathem
tekijä: Neal Stephenson
8,295 jäsentä
290 arvostelua
4.2
Member
pammab
10
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
tekijä: David Cannadine
466 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
4
Member
thorold
11
Puhu, muisti
tekijä: Vladimir Nabokov
3,601 jäsentä
44 arvostelua
4.2
Member
smcwl