Adaptation and Natural Selection    George Williams

Affluent Society         John Galbraith

Animal Physiology    

Atoms Electrons and Change  by P. W. Atkins

 

Basic Instinct

 

Biochemistry

 

Biology of Belief

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Body Heat

Builders and Dreamers: The making and Meaning of Management  By Morgen Witzel

The Burning by Thomas Legendre, a novel that discusses the ecology of economic profession.

Business Cycles and Equilibrium               by Fischer Black

 

CAPM (Lintner’s paper)

The Cash Nexus   by Ferguson, Niall

Cathedrals of Science 

The Coal Question by Stanley Jevons

Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics   by Erwin Schrodinger

Concepts in Biochemistry

 

Discoveries  

 

Economy of nature

 

Emerald Planet

 

Empire of Debt

 

Empire of the Word

 

The End of Oil   by Paul Roberts

The End of Science by John Horgan

Essays in persuasion

Essergy  by Robert Evans

Evolution

Evolution in four dimensions

The Evolution of Life Histories  by Stephen Stearns

Evolution, Thermodynamics and Information

Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling 

Gas Theory   by Ludwig Boltzmann    

Genius

Globalization and its discontents

 

The History of Statistics

 

Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort

 

The Hype about Hydrogen   by Joseph Romm

Into the Cool

In the Beat of a Heart    by John Whitfield

 

In defense of Self: Immune system

 

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by S. M. Blinder: It is from the difficulty in understanding subatomic world that we start to spend great amount of time thinking about the nature of human mind. A more detailed discussion can be found at The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds. The techniques developed from quantum mechanics, such as Feynman-Kac formula, are crucial in financial economics. It was even suggested that “Feynman could be claimed as the father of financial economics” (Dixit and Pindyck, 1994, p. 123).

Knowledge of language: Its Nature, Origin, and  Use  By Noam Chomsky

 

Life Ascending

 

Math Instinct

 

Monopoly Capital

My Life as a Quant  by Emanuel Derman

Metaphysical Club

 

The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way   By   Bill Bryson

Narrow Roads of Gene Land

 

Oxygen

 

The Predator State                                      by   James Galbraith

 

Periodic Kingdom, A journey into the land of the chemical elements  by P. W. Atkins

Picoeconomics       by George Ainslie

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science   by E.T. Jaynes

 

The Principle of Quantum Mechanics by Dirac

 

State of Fear    by Michael Crichton

 

The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics

 

Survival of the Sickest

 

Symbols, Signals & Noise: An Introduction to Information Theory

 

Virus and the evolution of life 

 

The Wisdom of the Body

Your Inner Fish             by Neil Shubin

 

 

My blog

中文博客

 

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