Best non-science books for scientists

Beskrivelse
Scientists and engineers proverbially don't read, especially not books with pages and pages of text unrelieved by matrices or partial differential equations. So, which books from the arts and humanities might stand a chance of breaking through into the scientific mind?
1
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
af Edward R. Tufte
5,141 medlemmer
56 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
3 Members
pammab, smcwl, C4RO
2
How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
af Mortimer J. Adler
7,666 medlemmer
75 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
smcwl, aulsmith
Forklaringer
aulsmith: This will give them a good solid idea of what they might get out of reading non-science.
3
Ways of Seeing
af John Berger
5,004 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
smcwl, abbottthomas
4
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age
af Simon Schama
1,574 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
cpg, thorold
5
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
af E. H. Gombrich
1,098 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
6
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
af Gunther Kress
131 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.5
2 Members
pammab, smcwl
7
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
af Marvin Harris
1,214 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
C4RO
8
Seven Types of Ambiguity
af William Empson
829 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
9
Anathem
af Neal Stephenson
8,333 medlemmer
291 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
pammab
10
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
af David Cannadine
469 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4
Member
thorold
11
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
af Vladimir Nabokov
3,630 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
smcwl