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Books(# challenging; ## difficult; + involves much math)

  • Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, (2007) #
  • Dennett, Cosciousness Explained (1991) #
  • Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas (1985) #
  • Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness (1997) #
  • Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind (1989) #
  • Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicit Order (1980) #
  • Nagel, Newman & Hofstadter, Godel's Proof (2001) #
  • Penrose, Shadows of the Mind (1994) #
  • Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, and Bach (1979) #
  • Searle, Mind, a Brief Introduction (2004) #
  • Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)
  • Hofstadter & Dennett, The Mind's I (1981)
  • Penrose, The Road to Reality (2004) ##+
  • Resnick, Introduction to Special Relativity (1968) #+
  • Bohm, Quantum Theory (1951) #+
  • Ridley, Genome (1999)
  • Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999)
  • Geroch, General Relativity from A to B (1978) #
  • Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity (1985) ##+
  • Kaku, Parallel Worlds (2004)
  • Hoffmann, The Strange Story of the Quantum (1947)
  • Pierce, The Science of Musical Sound (1983) +
  • Davies and Brown, Superstrings (1988)
  • Treiman, The Odd Quantum(1999)
  • Feynman, QED (1985) #
  • Davies and Brown, The Ghost in the Atom (1986)
  • Herbert, Quantum Reality (1985)
  • Bergmann, Introduction to the Theory of Relativity (1942) ##+
  • Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988)
  • Walsch, The Compete Conversations with God (2005)
  • Friedman, Bridging Science and Spirit (1993)
  • Collins. The Language of God (2006)
  • Schroeder, Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws (1991) #+
  • Peitgen, Jurgens, Saupe, Chaos and Fractals (1992) +
  • Gleick, Chaos, Making a New Science (1987)
  • Pierce, The Science of Musical Sound (1983) +

The following books are part of the Introduction series, short books that present an overview of difficult topics using numerous cartoons to soften and aid an understanding.

  • Gellatly & Zarate, Introducing Mind and Brain (1998)
  • Robinson & Groves,Introducing Philosophy ((1998)
  • McEvoy & Zarate, Introducing Quantum Theory (1996)
  • Borin & Van Loon, Introducing Darwin (1982)
  • Schwartz & McGuinness, Introducing Einstein (1979)
  • Cryan, Shatil, & Mayblin, Introducing Logic (2001)
  • Papineau & Selina, Introducing Consciousness (2000)
  • Callender & Edney, Introducing Time (2001)
  • Kul-Want & Klimowski, Introducing Kant (2005)