Name: Death by black hole
ISBN: 9780393350388

Death by black hole

Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm. Bringing together more than forty of Tyson's favorite essays,?Death by Black Hole? explores a myriad of cosmic topics, from what it would be like to be inside a black hole to the movie industry's feeble efforts to get its night skies right. One of America's best-known astrophysicists, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies the complexities of astrophysics while sharing his infectious fascination for our universe.

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evanbJul 2017

I broke up my list into cultural (that is, about the people, history, etc), popular (that is, not aimed at a student or an expert), and texts.

CULTURAL

Einstein - Essays in Humanism

Frayn - Copenhagen

Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Feynman - What Do You Care What Other People Think?

de Grasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole

Hoffman - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Kaiser - Drawing Theories Apart

Kaiser - How the Hippied Saved Physics

Macaulay - The Way Things Work

Paulos - Innumeracy

Sagan - Cosmos

Sagan - Broca's Brain

Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World

Salam - Science in the Third World

Seife - Zero

Weisskopf - The Joy of Insight

POPULAR

Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity (especially his explanation about fungibility in quantum mechanics)

Feynman - The Meaning of It All

Feynman - Lectures on Physics

Feynman and Weinberg - Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics

Galison - Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps

Gamow - One, Two, Three... Infinity

Hadamard - Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

Hawking - A Brief History of Time

Hofstadter - Gödel Escher Bach

Heisenberg - Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Polya - How to Solve It

Schrödinger - What is Life?

Susskind - The Theoretical Minimum

Susskind - Quantum Mechanics

Wallace - Everything And More

Weinberg - The First Three Minutes

Wiener - God & Golem, Inc.

TEXTS

Aaronson - Quantum Computing with Democritus (but I don't have a version with me in the acknowledgements https://books.google.com/books?id=jRGfhSoFx0oC&lpg=PR31&ots=... )

Abelson and Sussman - SICP

Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dzyaloshinski - Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics

Cohen-Tannoudji - Quantum Mechanics (1+2)

Dirac - Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Eddington - Space, Time, and Gravitation

Feynman - Feynman's Thesis

Feynman and Hibbs - Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals

Fermi - Thermodynamics

Gattringer & Lang - Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice

Goldstein - Classical Mechanics (the old version, NOT with Poole and Safko)

Griffiths - Introduction to Electrodynamics

Griffiths - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics (2nd edition---the last one entirely in CGS---is preferable)

Kleppner and Kolenkow - An Introduction to Mechanics

Landau and Lifshitz - any book in this series

Nielsen and Chuang - Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

Pauli - Selected Topics in Field Quantization

Peskin & Schroeder - An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Purcell - Electricity and Magnetism

Ryden - Introduction to Cosmology

Sakurai - Modern Quantum Mechanics (up to chapter 5, after which Sakurai dies and the editors put his notes together)

Sussman and Wisdom - Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

Sipser - Introduction to the Theory of Computation

Thorne - Black Holes & Time Warps

Thouless - The Quantum Mechanics of Many-Body Systems

Weinberg - The Quantum Theory of Fields I, II, and III

Zee - Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell

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arc_of_descentDec 2016

I started Jan 2016 jobless, I still am. hence the long reading list! Apart from these I've read lots on AngularJS, React, Redux, Python.

* The Short Drop (The Gibson Vaughn Series) - Matthew FitzSimmons

* The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

* Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - Neil deGrasse Tyson

* Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future - Ashlee Vance

* Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - Neil deGrasse Tyson

* The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind - Michio Kaku

* An Innocent Client (Joe Dillard Series Book 1) - Scott Pratt

* WIRED - Douglas E. Richards

* Phantoms - Dean Koontz

* Breakthrough - Michael C. Grumley

* Knots And Crosses (Inspector Rebus) - Ian Rankin

* Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

* The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller - John Grisham

* Kick the Drink... Easily! - Jason Vale

* Hide And Seek (Inspector Rebus) - Ian Rankin

* Tooth And Nail - Ian Rankin

* Nexus (The Nexus Trilogy Book 1) - Ramez Naam

* Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari

* Biocentrism - Bob Berman

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therealdrag0Dec 2014

I just read NDT's Death By Black Hole [0] in which he mentions some cities like New York waste millions of dollars a year on the energy that sends light skyward. So the incentive is there, it's probably they have failed to be long term thinking enough to eat the upfront installation costs until the the reduced overhead pays off 5 years later or w/e.

[0]http://smile.amazon.com/Death-Black-Hole-Cosmic-Quandaries/d...

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phlyingpenguinNov 2011

I bought a book, Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Death by Black Hole, from Google Books when it launched a year ago.

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