A Small Library
For working on the course, teachers and advanced students may find a small library of e-books useful.
Online materials for the course "Natural Sciences. The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere." For teachers and advanced students working on the course, a small library of e-books may be useful. The rights to these books belong to their authors and publishers. They are used here for methodological purposes, not for the profit of the website authors. By the way, according to the Law of Ukraine, copyrighted materials can be used in the educational process. We hope that familiarizing yourself with these sources on our website will lead to readers purchasing printed books if possible. Bryson_2013_A Short History of Nearly Everything. Brokman (ed.)_2017_What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Intellectuals on Science. Fernbach_Sloman_2017_The Illusion of Knowledge: Why We Never Think Alone. Physics and Cosmology. Asimov_2016_Popular Physics: From Archimedes' Lever to Quantum Mechanics. Al-Khalili (ed.)_2018_Are We Alone in the Universe? Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life. Berkovich_2017_The Origin of Everything: From the Big Bang to Human Civilization. Bloomfield_2016_How Everything Works: The Laws of Physics in Our Lives. Boeke_2018_Physics in a Nutshell: The Universe Explained Simply and Clearly. Weinberg_1981_The First Three Minutes. Weinberg_2015_To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science. Wilczek_2017_A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design. Galfard_2017_The Simple Universe. Goldberg_Blomquist_2009_The Universe: A User's Guide. Jackson_2015_The Universe: An Illustrated History of Astronomy. Deutsch_2015_The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes. Dawkins_2016_The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. Kayku_2013_Physics of the Future. Carroll_2017_The Universe: Origin of Life, Meaning of Existence, and the Vast Cosmos. Reshetnikov_2012_Why Is the Sky Dark? How the Universe Works. Parnovsky_2018_How the Universe Works: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology. Rees_2018_Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe. Sagan_2015_Cosmos: The Universe, Life, and Civilization. Tyson_2018_Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Tyson_2018_Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries. Tyson_Goldsmith_2016_Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. Tyson et al._2018_Cosmic Journeys. Feygin_2016_The Big Bang. Hawking_2012_The Universe in a Nutshell. Hawking_2017_A Brief History of Time. Hawking_Mlodinow_2013_The Grand Design. Hawking_Mlodinow_2017_The Grand Design. Holt_2016_Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story. Halpern_2016_Do Cats Play God? Einstein and Schrödinger in Search of the Unified Theory of Everything. History of the Earth and Life on It. Yeskov_2008_Amazing Paleontology: The History of the Earth and Life on It. Zhuravlev_2018_The Creation of the Earth. Messler_Clevis_2017_A Brief History of Creation. Nikitin_2016_The Origin of Life: From Nebula to Cell. Prothero_2017_Evolution: The Story of Life and the Planet. Roberts_2018_The Incredible Chance of Being: Evolution and the Birth of Humanity. Wilson_2017_Earth's Future: Our Planet in the Fight for Life. Ward_Kirschvink_2016_A New History of the Origin of Life on Earth. Harari_2016_Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Hazen_2012_The Story of Earth: From Stardust to a Living Planet: The First 4.5 Billion Years. Shubin_2010_Your Inner Fish. Shubin_2013_The Universe Within Us: What Rocks, Planets, and People Have in Common. Yastrebov_2018_From Atoms to Trees: An Introduction to Modern Life Science. Futurology. Diamandis_Kotler_2018_Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. Kurzweil_2015_The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil_2017_Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever. Nazaretyan_2013_Non-linear Future. Pereslegin_Pereslegina_2015_Wild Cards of the Future: Force Majeure for Humanity. Prorokov (comp.)_2017_The Question: Future. Turchin_Batin_2013_Futurism: The 21st Century. Immortality or Global Catastrophe. Fukuyama_2004_Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. Harari_2018_Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Chemistry, Substances, etc. Callister_Retvich_2011_Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Metals, Ceramics, Polymers). A certain number of other books that can be used in the course work are located here. And what books, in your opinion, should be here but are missing?