https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow"> non-specialist books on science written by women https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow">

1. Lisa Randall - "Warped Passages” - quantum mechanics, particle physics, string theory, relativity

2. Dava Sobel - “Longitude" - 18th century clockmaker who made a tool to measure longitude at sea

3. Dava Sobel - "Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"

4. Gillian Turner - "North Pole South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism"

5. Gabrielle Walker - "Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe that Spawned Life as We Know it"

6. Rebecca Skloot - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" - racism and ethics in medical research

7. Angela Saini - "Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World"

8. Sabine Hessenfelder - "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray” - commentary on how the field of physics followed beauty to great math but poor physics

9. K. C. Cole - "The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty”
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156006569

10.">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780... K. C. Cole - "Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life”

11. K. C. Cole - "Mind over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos” - assorted physics, astrology, cosmology, brings the scientists in as people https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156029568">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780...

12. K. C. Cole - "The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything” - exploration of nothingness including string theory, history of numbers, and the big bang https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156013178">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780...

recs from various people for @edosianorchid with the caveat that i haven& #39;t read most of them myself https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes"> hope you find something you like in here!