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[Deutsch1997]
Deutsch, David.  The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications.  Penguin Putnum (New York: 1997).   ISBN 0-14-027541-X pbk.
 
[Einstein1967]
Einstein, Albert., Infeld, Leopold.  The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta.  Simon and Schuster (New York: 1938, 1966).  ISBN 0-671-20156-5 pbk.  A Touchstone Book.
     From the preface: "This book is a simple chat between you and us.  You may find it boring or interesting, dull or exciting, but our aim will be accomplished if these pages give you some idea of the eternal struggle of the inventive human mind for a fuller understanding of the laws governing physical phenomena." 
   Content
     Acknowledgments
     Introduction to the New Edition (1960, Infeld)
     Preface
     I. The Rise of the Mechanical View
     II. The Decline of the Mechanical View
     III.  Field, Relativity
     IV. Quanta
     Index
   
[Einstein1983]
Einstein, Albert.  Sidelights on Relativity.  Dover Publications (New York: 1922, 1983).  ISBN 0-486-24511-X.  Unabridged and unaltered republication of the translation by G. B. Jeffery and W. Perrett, first published by E. P. Dutton (New York: 1922).
    Content
     I. Ether and the Theory of Relativity.  An Address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden.
     II.  Geometry and Experience.  An expanded form of an Address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin on January 27th, 1921.
   
[Hacking1999]
Hacking, Ian.  The Social Construction of What?  Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA: 1999).  ISBN 0-674-81200-X alk. paper.
   Content
     Preface
     1. Why Ask What?
     2. Too Many Metaphors
     3. What about the Natural Sciences?
     4. Madness: Biological or Constructed?
     5. Kind-making: The Case of Child Abuse
     6. Weapons Research
     7. Rocks
     8. The End of Captain Cook
     Notes
     Works Cited
     Index
 
[Infeld1967]
Einstein, Albert., Infeld, Leopold.  The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta.  Simon and Schuster (New York: 1938, 1966).  ISBN 0-671-20156-5 pbk.  A Touchstone Book.  See [Einstein1967]
 
[Lewontin2000]
Lewontin, Richard C.  It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions.  The New York Review of Books (New York: 2000).  ISBN 0-940322-10-2.
     2001-10-16: I was drawn to this book by the title and my own conversations on how DNA is not anywhere enough to determine a person.  This led to my appreciation of Scientific Determinism - Misattribution of Reality -- dh.
   Content
     Acknowledgments
     Introduction
     Chapter 1
          The Inferiority Complex [1981, reviewing Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man]
          An Exchange
          Epilogue
     Chapter 2
          Darwin's Revolution [1983, essay on books appearing around the Centenary of Darwin's death]
          Epilogue
     Chapter 3
          Darwin, Mendel, and the Mind
          Epilogue
     Chapter 4
          The Science of Metamorphoses
          Epilogue
     Chapter 5
          The Dream of the Human Genome
          Epilogue
     Chapter 6
          Women Versus the Biologists
          An Exchange
     Chapter 7
          Sex, Lies, and Social Science
          An Exchange
     Chapter 8
          The Confusion over Cloning
          An Exchange
          Epilogue
     Chapter 9
          Survival of the Nicest?
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