Wei's Bookshelf

Science

J. Frenkel, Kinetic Theory of Liquids, Dover, 1955. ($11.76 on Amazon)

M. Hamermesh, Group Theory and Its Application to Physical Problems, Addison-Wesley, 1962. (Very clear. With many small examples that build intuition.)

P. A. M. Dirac, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, 4th ed., 1958. (A classic. Explains analogy between classical and quantum mechanics.)

S. Kobayashi, S. Oh and T. Altan, Metal Forming and the Finite-Element Method, Oxford University Press, 1989. (Brings us down to reality -- what happens in a factory.)

A. H. Cottrell, Theory of Crystal Dislocations, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1964. (brief and clear.)

Writing

William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th ed., ALLYN & BACON 1979, 2000. ($10.85 on Amazon)

Computer

Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike, The Practice of Programming, Addison-Wesley, paperback 1999. ($34.40 on Amazon)

Kids

A. Faber and E. Mazlish, How to Talk so Kids Can Learn, FIRESIDE 1995. ($10.17 on Amazon)

Fun

R. P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, M.I.T. Press, 1967.

R. P. Feynman, QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton University Press, 1985.

C. Sykes, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman, Norton & Company, 1995. ($14.93 on Amazon.)

R. Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 30th anniversary ed. 2006. PDF available