The following is a list of mainly popular science books that you may borrow from David Harris, contact him at to arrange pick up. There is no charge for borrowing the books but a donation to St Stephens School, Terekeka, South Sudan would be appreciated.
Author Title
Paul Davies The Mind of God ( Science and the search for
ultimate meaning
Marek Kohn A Reason for Everything (natural selection and the
English imagination)
Dava Sobel Galileo's daughter (based on preserved letters)
Owen Gingerich The book nobody read ( the mystery behind
Copernicus’s De Revoltionibus )
Timothy Ferris The world treasury of physics, astronomy and
mathematics
Jan Gullberg Mathematics from the birth of numbers
Simon Sign Fermat's Last Theorem
Stephen Hawking 1) A Brief History of Time
2) The Nature of Space and Time
3) The Essential Einstein
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe
Dava Sobel Longitude (about Harrison’s clocks)
Kitty Ferguson Measuring the Universe
Murray Gel-Mann The Quark and the Jaguar (Adventures in the
simple and the complex)
Richard Feynman Surely you're joking Mr Feynman (Adventures of a
curious character)
Roger Penrose 1) The Road to Reality (not such an easy read)
2) The Emperor's New Clothes ( “ “ )
David Bodanis e=mc2 (Biography of Albert Einstein)
Charles Darwin 1) The Voyage of the Beagle
2) The Origin of Species
Roger Mcdonald Mr Darwin's Sharpshooter (factual novel)
Jack Kelly Gunpowder (a history of the explosive that
changed the world )
Sanjida O'Connel Sugar (The grass that changed the world )
John Keay Measuring the Arc (about surveying India)
Simon Winchester The map that changed the world (Geological map
of the UK)
Martin Rees Just six numbers (The deep forces that shape the
universe )
Robert Kaplan The nothing that is (a natural history of Zero )
Michio Kaku Physics of the Future 9 (A tour of technical
possibility )
Eric Linklater The voyage of the Challenger (The birth of
Oceanography, 1872 based on extensive records
from the four year voyage)
Nicolette Jones The Plimsoll Sensation (the History of the famous
mark)
Bennet Scientific and engineering problem solving with the
computer
K Bird and M Sherwin Oppenheimer (A biography )
Catherine Arnold Bedlam (the history of the mental hospital )
Robert Bunderi The invention that changed the world (The history
of Radar)
Mark Kurlansky Cod (the fish and the history of its exploitation)
Gavin Menzies 1434 (Did the Chinese spark the Renaissance
when part of the grand fleet visited the Med.)
H Haysham Basic Astronomy
C Marchaj Aero-hydrodynamics of sailing
Shirley Harrison The Channel (The history of a small strip of water
that separates us from europe )
Gerald Schroeder The hidden face of god ( From Meta Physics to cell
structure and brain functions)
Callum Roberts The unnatural story of the sea (it’s exploitation)
George Dyson Turing’s Cathedral (Von Neuman’s work to design
a computer )
R H Atkins Mathematics and Wave Mechanics
Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man (Biography of Paul Dirac)
Sinclair McKay The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
Charles Roberts Metrology
Doodson and Warburg Admiralty manual of tides ( an analysis of recorded
data to predict forward in time)
F Davis An account of the fishing gear of England and
Wales (Up to 1958 , fascinating historical record)
H Aldersey-Williams Periodic Tales (the curious lives of the elements)