Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, whose new book To Explain the World I reviewed a couple of weeks back, recently took to the pages of the Guardian to present his candidates for the 13 best science books.
Weinberg is bullish on the genre of science books by scientists for the general public, as they can serve, in his words, "to make science what some scientists have always hoped it would be: a part of the culture of our times."
His list is a mix of the old and the new, including Philosophical Letters by Voltaire, Darwin's The Origin of Species, The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans, with more recent celebrated titles like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, Brain Greene's The Elegant Universe, The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris and Lisa Randall's excellent Warped Passages.
