Recommendations from our site
“It goes right to the edge of his field—quantum loop gravity—but I found it a really enjoyable read for a number of reasons. For one thing he’s got a good, simple style, and he has a great capability to explain…He’s also informed by a strong literary and artistic imagination and appreciation of, for example, the mediaeval mind. There’s lovely stuff on Dante and one of the chapels in Florence, and how they inform our ways of perceiving the shape of the universe. He’s also great on Democritus…He had quite a success with a book called Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, and this is basically the longer version of the same book. I think it’s actually a better book in some ways.” Read more...
The best books on Science and Wonder
Caspar Henderson, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll -
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins -
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes -
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
