Recommended Reading
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Biographical
Hawking by Jim Ottaviani
Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Further Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton
Articles
General Educational
Science Education Books
Ambitious Science Teaching by Jessica Jane Thompson, Mark Windschitl, and Melissa L. Braaten
Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science by Richard Konicek-Moran and Page D Keeley
nTIPERs: Newtonian Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research by CJ Hieggelke and DP Maloney
TIPERs: Sensemaking Tasks for Introductory Physics by CJ Hieggelke and Steve Kanim
Interesting Reads
Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered Beauty and Terror in Science by Richard Holmes
Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe by Michio Kaku
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The Poisoners Handbook by Deborah Blum
The Three-Minute Outdoorsman by Robert M. Zink
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Vetter-Vorm
What if?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe
When the Earth Was Flat: All the Bits We Got Wrong by Graeme Donald
Why Does E=mc2? (And Why We Should Care) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw