Table A1

Datasets of hard science disciplines

Hard Science booksAuthorYearPublisher
PhysicsThe Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far: Why Are We Here?Lawrence M. Krauss2017Atria Books
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe ItselfSean Carrol2016Dutton
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the UniverseLee Smolin2014Marine Books
CosmosCarl Sagan1983Time Warner Books
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and Deep Laws of the CosmosBrian Greene2011Knopf
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries and the Future of the CosmosJohn Brockman2014Harper Perennial
BiologyThe Selfish GenesRichard Dawkins1976/2016Oxford University Press
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. Sapolsky2017Penguin Press
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of HeredityCarl Zimmer2018Dutton
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersMatt Ridley1999Harper Perennial
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of LifeNick Lane2006Oxford University Press
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and DiseaseDaniel E. Liberman2013Vintage
ChemistryStuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made WorldMark Miodownik2015Marine Books
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the ElementsSam Kean2011Back Bay Books
Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed HistoryJay Burreson & Penny Le Couteur2004Jeremy P Tarcher
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teachers Wouldn’t Tell YouSteven Farmer2017Wiley
Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of ChemistryRoald Hoffmann2012Oxford University Press
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genuis, A Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of HitlerThomas Hager2008Crown

Source(s): Appendix by author

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