5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind

Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by hugh on Thursday October 02, 2008 @06:55PM (#322239)

Chemistry and programming? You mean, like, computational chemistry? (That's an awfully hard subject to get into, and I don't know any books written at an introductory level.)

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by mickt on Thursday October 02, 2008 @09:21PM (#322337)

How about a good basic Chemistry book?

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by mechanical_fish on Friday October 03, 2008 @12:48AM (#322433)

I picked up Linus Pauling's book. Famous guy, fairly literate book, but I haven't gotten far enough through it to see if it's really great or not.

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by mickt on Friday October 03, 2008 @08:05PM (#323210)

Good reviews on Amazon and it's inexpensive. So maybe I'll pick up a copy. I'm asking cause I might get a gig working for a non-profit that does a lot of biological research.

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by hugh on Friday October 03, 2008 @12:00AM (#322410)

Hmmm, can't think of one. There's a lot of freshman chemistry textbooks, but they're all pretty similar, and pretty boring.

Chemistry, the in-between science, doesn't really lend itself so easily to popularization as physics or biology. There's no deep principles, and no amazing phenomena, it's pretty much just stamp collecting.

Maybe somebody else will have some suggestions though?

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by mickt on Friday October 03, 2008 @08:08PM (#323212)

Yeah that's the problem, they're all boring and don't lead to a bit of light reading after a hard day at work.

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