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Stephen Hawking's popular books, in the order to read them
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- 01A Brief History of Time (1988)
- 02Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
- 03The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
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neil degrasse tyson's eight books every intelligent person should read
his answer from the 2011 reddit AMA, in the order he gave it. free, all of it
01
The Bible
02
The System of the World (Isaac Newton)
newton's principia, book three. not the obvious pick. his point: the universe runs by rules, not moods. worth the math you skip anyway
03
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
darwin's argument, paraphrased: read this and you get how related you are to literally everything alive
04
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
05
The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)
06
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
07
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
sun tzu's reasoning per tyson: turning killing into an art is still a human skill worth understanding
08
machiavelli's the one people quote without reading. free, all of it, on gutenberg
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