Chance and Necessity

6 best books like Chance and Necessity (Jacques Monod): Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, The Second Angel, Memoirs of the Second World War, Playback

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

Author	V.S. Ramachandran
ISBN	0688172172

Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech...

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Author	Erwin Schrödinger
ISBN	0521427088

What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943 at Trinity College, Dublin. Schrödinger's lecture focused on one important question: "how can...

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Author	Lewis Thomas
ISBN	0140243283

This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as "The Attic of the Brain, " "Falsity and Failure, " "Altruism, " and the effects...

The Second Angel

Author	Philip Kerr
ISBN	0671024728

July 2069: centennial of the Apollo 11 moon walk. What would Buzz Aldrin see if he were here? On Earth, plagues have destroyed the major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a new and virulent virus--P2--has infected Earth's population,...

Memoirs of the Second World War

Author	Winston S. Churchill
ISBN	0395599687

The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen by Winston Churchill, its greatest leader

As Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, Winston Churchill was not only the most powerful player in World War II, but also the free world's most eloquent voice of defiance in the...

Playback

Author	Raymond Chandler
ISBN	0394757661

Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7), Raymond Chandler
Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; Playback is his last completed...