Monday, February 17, 2014

My reading list (89 books in my Amazon shopping cart)

So, I decided to post the list of the books (including textbooks)in my amazon shopping cart. I think it is a good reading list that other people can find something interesting too. Note that the order is not an order of importance. I tried to keep them in order of chemistry, biology, popular science books etc., but then I got tired. Maybe I will organize them later.


1. The Mechanisms of Reactions at Transition Metal Sites

2.  Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods

3. NMR Spectroscopy in Inorganic Chemistry


4. Introduction to Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure

5. Biocoordination Chemistry 


6. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments


7. d-Block Chemistry


8. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism


9. Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry


10. Advanced Chemistry (Advanced Science)


11. The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day


12. Inorganic Syntheses (Volume 35)  


13. The Biology of Cancer


14. Basic Physical Chemistry: The Route to Understanding


15. Metals in Cells


16. The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug


17. Physical Chemistry for the Chemical and Biological Science


18. Bringing Chemistry to Life: From Matter to Man


19. The Chemistry of Evolution


20. Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History


21. From X-rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology


22. The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet


23. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body


24. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul


25. Evolution, Second Edition


26. Madame Curie: A Biography


27. The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life


28. The Theory of Intermolecular Forces


29. Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life


30. Introduction to Coordination Chemistry


31. Metal Complex - DNA Interactions


32. Metallomics and the Cell


33. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell


34. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer


35. Gertrude Elion: Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology and Medicine


36. Handbook on Metalloprotein


37. Interrelations between Essential Metal Ions and Human Disease


38. Metals and Life


39. The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins


40. The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the History of Drugs


41. Coordination Chemistry in Protein Cages: Principles, Design, and Applications


42. Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905


43. Periodic correlations (The Physical Inorganic Chemistry Series)


44. Metals in Medicine


45. The Logic of Life

46. Chemistry - The Impure Science


47. Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry


48. The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix


49. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery


50. The Plutonium Story: The Journals of Professor Glenn T. Seaborg 1939-1946


51. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


52. Letters to a Young Chemist


53. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason


54. The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis)


55. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution


56. Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos


57. SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY


58. Euler: The Master of Us All


59. Why Chemical Reactions Happen


60. Metallointercalators: Synthesis and Techniques to Probe Their Interactions with Biomolecules


61. Problems in Quantum Mechanics


62. Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory


63. Modern Physical Organic Chemistry


64. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition


65. Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars


66. Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)


67. Albert Einstein's Vision: Remarkable Discoveries That Shaped Modern Science


68. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality


69. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)


70. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory


71. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter


72. Einstein: His Life and Universe


73. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life


74. Tesla: Man Out of Time


75. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout


76. Darwin: Portrait of a Genius


77. Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family


78. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer


79. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood


80. The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World


81. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom


82. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla


83. Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution


84. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb


85. The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance


86. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies


87. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid



88The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature  





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