Astrophysics


Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
A Brief History of Time
Cosmos
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Amelia, the Venutons and the Golden Cage by Evonne BlanchardAmelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire Palace by Evonne BlanchardCosmos by Carl SaganThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A Space.com Reading List
23 books — 16 voters

Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti ShankarMathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics by Vladimir I. ArnoldNaive Lie Theory by John StillwellQuantum Theory by A. PeresThe Beauty of Fractals by Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Top Springer Physics
30 books — 1 voter

An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics by Dale A. OstlieAn Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Bradley W. CarrollGravitation and Cosmology by Steven WeinbergIntroduction to Cosmology by Barbara RydenCosmology by Steven Weinberg
Astrophysics (MMath)
11 books — 6 voters
The HIPUS® Revolution by Mark SorensenA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaCosmos by Carl Sagan
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
101 books — 67 voters

Abhijit Naskar
“ Science of Life, Class in Session (Sonnet 2087-2088) Nature doesn't kill anybody, nor does it save anybody - life and death are human constructs, just like beauty and the grotesque - nature is above all that, not in an almighty, all-knowing sort of way, but more of an indifferent sort of way - because in nature, nothing's born, nothing dies, they just change shape, and some of those shapes are sentient, some intelligent, some neither - and each identity gets restructured as they go through t ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

Abhijit Naskar
“ I've descended from exploding stars, and you think you with your monkey mind can erase me, you can own all the rockets, all the satellites, all the armies, robots, and all the banks, still you cannot dampen my nerve fibers charged with lightning from the heavens. ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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