Physical World

Physics

• 1988 A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
  Thermodynamics
• 2005 Into the Cool - Eric D. Schneider and Sagan
  Quantum Mechanics
• 2008 Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality - Manjit Kumar

Cosmology

• Neil Tyson
  • 2004 Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
  • 2006 Death by Black Hole
  • 2012 Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
  • 2017 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
  • 2019 Letters From An Astrophysicist
  • 2022 Starry Messenger
• Leonard Susskind
  • 2005 The Cosmic Landscape
  • 2008 The Black Hole War
• 2004 The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
• 1999 Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe - Martin Rees
• 2005 Astrophysics: Oxford VSI

Chaos

• 1987 Chaos (book)

Emergence

• 2009 Complexity - Melanie Mitchell
• 1996 The Web of Life - Fritjof Capra

Information Theory

• 2011 The Information - James Gleick
• 2024 Nexus - Yuval Harari
• 2010 Information (book) Oxford VSI

Determinism

• 2023 Determined - Robert Sapolsky
• 2011 Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain - Michael Gazzaniga