Physics World’s Book of the Year 2012 (10 books)

Physics World’s Book of the Year 2012

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1	A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher by Joel Achenbach 3.86 avg rating — 156 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Science Magpie: A Hoard of Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams and Jokes, Plucked from Science and Its History by Simon Flynn 3.56 avg rating — 387 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 8,614 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin 3.93 avg rating — 465 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters by Mark Henderson 3.71 avg rating — 605 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos by Peter M. Hoffmann 4.22 avg rating — 690 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser 3.55 avg rating — 805 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation by George G. Szpiro 3.88 avg rating — 194 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything by Margaret Wertheim 3.64 avg rating — 195 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel 3.89 avg rating — 584 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars