Best non-science books for scientists

Descrizione
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
di Edward R. Tufte
5,141 utenti
56 recensioni
½ 4.4
3 Members
pammab, smcwl, C4RO
2
How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
di Mortimer J. Adler
7,657 utenti
75 recensioni
4
2 Members
smcwl, aulsmith
Spiegazioni
aulsmith: This will give them a good solid idea of what they might get out of reading non-science.
3
Questione di sguardi
di John Berger
5,000 utenti
60 recensioni
4
2 Members
smcwl, abbottthomas
4
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age
di Simon Schama
1,573 utenti
12 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
cpg, thorold
5
Arte e illusione: studio sulla psicologia della rappresentazione pittorica
di E. H. Gombrich
1,098 utenti
5 recensioni
4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
6
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
di Gunther Kress
131 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.5
2 Members
pammab, smcwl
7
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
di Marvin Harris
1,214 utenti
19 recensioni
3.8
Member
C4RO
8
Sette tipi di ambiguita
di William Empson
829 utenti
12 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
9
Anathem
di Neal Stephenson
8,340 utenti
291 recensioni
4.2
Member
pammab
10
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
di David Cannadine
469 utenti
2 recensioni
4
Member
thorold
11
Parla, ricordo: un'autobiografia rivisitata
di Vladimir Nabokov
3,628 utenti
44 recensioni
4.2
Member
smcwl