The Copernican revolution; planetary astronomy in the development of Western thought, by Thomas S. Kuhn.  Harvard University Press, 1957.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIBRARY
QB41.C815 K8

The Sleepwalkers (A history of man's changing vision of the universe), by Arthur Koestler.  Hutchinson, 1959; Penguin 1964; Penguin 1868; Arkana 1989.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIBRARY
MAIN LIBRARY STACKS
BL245 .K63 1968

The God particle: if the universe is the answer, what is the question?
by Leon M. Lederman
Publication date   1993
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY, Reserve
QC793.5 .B62 L43 1993
price (June 28, Amazon) $10.36
 

Newton to Einstein : the trail of light : an excursion to the wave-particle duality and the special theory of relativity,
by Ralph Baierlein.
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY
QC476 .W38 B35 1992

The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory  by Brian Greene
Paperback - 448 pages
Vintage Books, February 2000
ISBN: 0375708111
price (June 27, Amazon) $7.50
 

Galileo: A Life by James Reston, Jr.
Paperback - 332 pages (February 2000)
Beard Group; ISBN: 189312262X

“Galileo and the scientific revolution” by  Laura Fermi and Gilberto Bernardini.
New York, Basic Books,1961.  This book is out of print.
 MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY Call number QB36.G2 F43

The sun in the Church" by J. L. Helibron.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1999.
QB29 .H33 1999  Main Library Stacks.
Costantino Sigismondi (Pescara, Italy) strongly recommends supplementing this book with the chapter on Galileo's case in the web site of the Vatican Observatory <http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/gghist.html> and also the article on the web site of Stanford University <http://www.stanford.edu/group/catholic/sherwin.html>.

"God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science", edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.
 Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.
 (papers from an international conference held at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, Apr. 23-25, 1981) MAIN LIBRARY STACKS BL245 .G63 1986

 “The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes.
 New York : Simon and Schuster, 1986.
 MAIN LIBRARY STACKS QC773 .R46 1986
 MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY QC773 .R46 1986

“Dark sun : the making of the hydrogen bomb” by Richard Rhodes.
 New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.
 MAIN LIBRARY STACKS UG1282.A8 R46 1995

“Innumeracy : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences” by John Allen Paulos.
 New York : Hill and Wang, 1988
MAIN LIBRARY STACKS QA93 .P38 1988

Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time,
by Dava Sobel,
New York : Walker, 1995.
MAIN LIBRARY STACKS
QB225 .S64 1995

Teller's war : the top-secret story behind the Star Wars deception, by William J. Broad.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1992. (Out of print)
UG486 .B76 1992 (unavailable in the University Library -- lost)

Fashionable nonsense : postmodern intellectuals' abuse of science,
by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.
New York : Picador USA, 1998.
Q175 .S6395 1998
Status: Reported missing, Not Available
price (June 27, Amazon) $11.20

Crystal fire : the birth of the information age,
by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson.
New York : Norton, c1997.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIBRARY TK7809 .R56 1997

Beyond Star Trek : physics from alien invasions to the end of time,
by Lawrence M. Krauss,
New York, NY : Basic Books, c1997.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIBRARY
QB500 .K64 1999

The Physics of Star Trek (Star Trek Series),
by Lawrence M. Krauss and Stephen Hawking,
Harperperennial Library, 1996.
ISBN: 0060977108
Price: $9.00 (Amazon, June 29)

A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes,
by Stephen W. Hawking,
Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988.
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY
QB981 .H377 1988

Dreams of a Final Theory
by Steven Weinberg
Vintage Books 1994.
ISBN: 0679744088
Price: $11.20 (Amazon, June 28)
Temporarily unavailable in the Stony Brook Library.
I asked for it to be reordered.

From quarks to the cosmos : tools of discovery,
by Leon Lederman,
New York : Scientific American Library, 1989.
W H Freeman & Co; 1989 (paperback edition 1995)
ISBN: 0716760126
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY, Reserve  QB43.2 .L43 1989

Making physics : a biography of Brookhaven National  Laboratory, 1946-1972
by Robert P. Crease
University of Chicago Press, 1999; ISBN: 0226120171
MAIN LIBRARY STACKS QC789.2.U62 B763 1999
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY On Order

The Second Creation : Makers of the Revolution Twentieth-Century Physics
by Robert P. Crease, Charles C. Mann (Contributor), Timothy Ferris
Rutgers Univ Press, Paperback Reprint edition (February 1996)
ISBN: 0813521777
MAIN LIBRARY STACKS QC7 .C74 1986
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY, Reserve QC7 .C74 1986

Nobel dreams : power, deceit, and the ultimate experiment
By  Gary Taubes
New York : Random House, c1986.
MAIN LIBRARY STACKS  QC793.4 .T38 1986

The enlightenment of Joseph Priestley : a study of his life and work from 1733 to 1773,
by Robert E. Schofield
Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1997
BX9869 .P8 S36 1997

A mathematician's apology,
by G. H. Hardy.
London, Cambridge U.P., 1967.
QA7 .H3 1967

The case of the missing neutrinos : and other curious phenomena of the universe,
by John R. Gribbin,
Fromm Intl, 1998
ISBN: 0880641991
MATH/PHYSICS LIBRARY QB44.2 .G752 1998

Q Is for Quantum : An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics,
by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin (Editor), Jonathan Gribbin (Illustrator)
Touchstone Books, 2000.
ISBN: 0684863154
price $16.00 (June 29, Amazon).

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