What Mad Pursuit

7 best books like What Mad Pursuit (Francis Crick): Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, The Epigenetics Revolution, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Author	Caroline Criado-Pérez
ISBN	1419729071

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar,...

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...

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Author	Simon Singh
ISBN	0385495323

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Author	Stephen Hawking
ISBN	1984819194

Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying...

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

The Epigenetics Revolution

Author

Nessa Carey

At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still...

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Author	Eric Schmidt
ISBN	0062839276

This book fails both as a biography and as a playbook. It's thin on details and the rose-coloured lens of Bill makes it read more like a eulogy.

Evidence would suggest that Bill Campbell was an excellent coach. This book does not capture his playbook in a meaningful way and I learned very little.

It’s...