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Aczel, Amir D. Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2002.

Adair, Robert K. The Great Design: Particles, Fields and Creation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Asimov, Isaac. The Universe: From Flat Earth to Black Holes and Beyond. New York: Walker and Company, 1980.

Atkins, P. W. The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Bais, Sander. The Equations: Icons of Knowledge. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Barbour, Julian. The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Barrow, John D. The World Within the World. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Barrow, John D. Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Barrow, John D. and Frank J. Tipler. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Bodanis, David. Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005.

Bok, Bart J. and Priscilla F. Bok. The Milky Way. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Cloud, Preston. Oasis in Space: Earth History from the Beginning. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.

Cooper, Henry S.F., Jr. Imaging Saturn: The Voyager Flights to Saturn. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.

Crease, Robert P. and Charles C. Mann. The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Croswell, Ken. The Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the Milky Way . New York: Anchor Books, 1995.

Croswell, Ken. Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems. New York: The Free Press, 1997.

Dauber, Philip M.; and Richard A. Muller. The Three Big Bangs: Comet Crashes, Exploding Stars, and the Creation of the Universe . Reading, Massachusetts: Helix Books, 1996.

Davies, Paul. The Edge of Infinity: Where the Universe Came From and How It Will End. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Davies, Paul. Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Dressler, Alan. Voyage to the Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Dunlop, Storm. Collins Atlas of the Night Sky. New York: Collins, 2005.

Eberhart, Mark E. Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart. New York: Harmony Books, 2003.

Ferris, Timothy. The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe Report. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Ford, Kenneth W. The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Galison, Peter. Einstein's Cloks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

Gleiser, Marcelo. The Prophet and the Astronomer: A Scientific Journey to the End of Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.

Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Gregory, Bruce. Inventing Reality: Physics as Language. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988.

Gribbin, John. Blinded by the Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark Matter. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.

 

Gribbin, John. Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

Gribbin, John. Stardust. London: Allen Lane, 2000.

Gribbin, John. Unveiling the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes. New York: Harmony Books, 1992.

Guth, Alan H. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. New York: Perseus Books, 1997.

Harrison, Edward. Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Hawking, Stephen. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.

Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell. New York: Bantam Books, 2001.

Holt, Terry. The Universe Next Door: A Complete Guide to Exploring the Skies and Understanding What You See. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.

Huler, Scott. Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. New York: Crown Publishers, 2004.

Jastrow, Robert. Red Giants and White Dwarfs. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.

Kippenhahn, Rudolph. Bound to the Sun: The Story of Planets, Moons, and Comets. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1990.

Kitchin, C. R. Journeys to the Ends of the Universe: A Guided Tour of the Beginnings and Endings of Planets, Stars, Galaxies and the Universe. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1990.

Kluger, Jeffrey. Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Kolb, Rocky. Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

Krauss, Lawrence M. The Fifth Essence: The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1989.

Lederman, Leon M. and Christopher T. Hill. Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Lederman, Leon and Dick Teresi. The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question? Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Lemonick, Michael D. The Light At the Edge of the Universe: Leading Cosmologists on the Brink of a Scientific Revolution. New York: Villard Books, 1993.

Lloyd, Seth. Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Maffei, Paolo. The Universe in Time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1989.

McSween, Harry Y., Jr. Stardust to Planets: A Geological Tour of the Solar System. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Miller, Arthur I. Imagery in Scientific Thought: Creating 20th-Century Physics. Boston: Birkhauser, 1984.

Montgomery, Scott L. The Moon and the Western Imagination. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Morris, Richard. The Edges of Science: Crossing the Boundary from Physics to Metaphysics. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1990.

Morris, Richard. Time's Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Motz, Lloyd. The Universe: Its Beginning and End. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.

Muller, Richard. Nemesis: The Death Star. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.

Murray, Bruce. Journey into Space: The First Three Decades of Space Exploration. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.

Nadeau, Robert and Menas Kafatos. The Non-Local Universe: The New Physics and Matters of the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Pagels, Heinz R. Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Primack, Joel R.; and Nancy Ellen Abrams. The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Rees, Martin. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Rees, Martin. Our Cosmic Habitat. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Reeves, Hubert. Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1984.

Reeves, Hubert. The Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity. Cambridge, New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1991.

Rowan-Robinson, Michael. The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Seife, Charles. Decoding the Universe: How the Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes. New York: Viking, 2006.

Smolin, Lee. The Life of the Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Strathern, Paul. Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001.

Susskind, Leonard. The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2006.

Thuan, Trinh Xuan. The Secret Melody: And Man Created the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Trefil, James S. The Moment of Creation: Big Bang Physics From Before the First Millisecond to the Present Universe. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983.

Von Baeyer, Hans Christian. Information: The New Language of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Walker, Gabrielle. An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, 2007.

Waller, William H. and Paul W. Hodge. Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Wilczek, Frank and Betsy Devine. Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.

Young, Louise B. The Unfinished Universe. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Yourgrau, Palle. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Zee, A. Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986.

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