The Three-Body Problem from Pythagoras to Hawking by Mauri Valtonen (+5 co-authors) (2016, ISBN 978-3-319-22725-2)

This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory. The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s physics and astronomy.

 Great book I loved it. lots of science but not too hard core.

Purchased 2022-07-19 from Amazon for $38.56
 

 The Biggest Ideas In The Universe space, time. and motion by Sean Carroll (2022, ISBN 9780593186589)

Popular science explanation of Mechanics from Newton to Einstein.

Purchased 2022-10-25 from Powells (Hawthorne) for $23.00

The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur (2007, ISBN 978-0-525-94992-3)

Subtitle- The 2,500 year old puzzle behind all the mysteries of time and space.

The book is about Zeno's paradoxes of motion.

Zeno's paradoxes are discussed and then a variety of physics topics are discussed and related back to the paradoxes.

 I enjoyed this book.

Purchased at (unknown) on 2008-7-1 for (amount unknown, possibly 24.95$.)
 

 The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky (2013, ISBN 978-0-465-07568-3)

Subtitle: What You Need To Know To Start Doing Physics.

The one thing I learned from this book was-- There is No Royal Road to Physics.

In 227 pages the books covers a lot of territory!  Mathematics-- Spaces, Trigonometry, Vectors, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Partial Derivatives, Vector Fields-- DIV, GRAD & CURL. That is a lot and doesn't include the Physics!

Physics-- Introduction, Motion, Dynamics, Energy, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian Mechanics, Poisson Brackets, Electric and Magnetic Forces, Newton's Laws and Kepler's Laws. And a whole lot more!

I doubt you can do Physics after reading this book, unless you are a genius. But you might get a feeling for whether or not this stuff interests you. If you are interested I suggest you get a proper College Physics book (for example Theoretical Physics by Georg Joos ISBN 978-0-486-65227-6) and study for real.  The book Classical Mechanics by H.C.Corben and Philip Stehle (ISBN 978-0-486-68063-7) covers many of the same topics (not the Math, they assume you know that) but it isn't for people who don't know the basics. Another book is Classical Mechanics with Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control, An Intuitive Introduction by Mark Levi (ISBN 978-0-8218-9138-4)

Classical Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum by the same authors is just the UK version of the above book. (ISBN 978-0-141-97622-8)

I got these books for Christmas 2019.

The Zoomable Universe, by Caleb Scharf (2017, ISBN 978-0-374-71571-7)

Describes the Universe from the very large 10^27 (the whole universe) to the very small 10^-35 (the Planck scale.) It goes in steps of powers of 10 of meters. The humans are at between 10 meters and 1 meters.

Received for Christmas 2017.

Seven Brief Lessons On Physics by Carlo Rovelli (2014, ISBN 978-0-399-18441-3)

A series of seven essays for the general reader about topics in physics.  Topics include-- Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Cosmos, Sub-atomic particles, etc.

Purchased at Powell's on 2018-3-15 for 9.98$

QED by Richard P. Feynman (1985, ISBN 0-691-02417-0)
Subtitle-- The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

A series of four lectures made into essays about QED or quantum electrodynamics. It is supposed to be for the general reader but is still difficult.

Purchased at Powell's on 2018-3-15 for 10.50$

Modern Physics: an introductory survey by Arthur Beiser (1968, ISBN 0-201-00515-8)
Topics covered-- Electromagnetic Waves,  Relativity, Quanta, The Atom, Complex Atoms, Molecules and  Ions, The Solid State, The Nucleus, Nuclear Transformations, and Elementary Particles.
This book was used in a course of beginning Physics that I attended in the 1970's. Some of it is out of date, the author has a newer book that is more current. Still I think the book is worth a read.
Purchased at University Bookstore, probably in 1974-1975, for 5.95$

The Physics Book by Clifford A Pickover (2011, ISBN 978-1-4027-7861-2).
Subtitle-- From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics.
Provides a brief summary, one page of text and a picture for 250 physics topics--
For example, Eratosthesnes Measures the Earth- describes how a scientist in 240 BC figured out how to measure the circumference  (yes they knew the Earth was sphere even then) of the Earth using measurements and math.
--or-- Photoelectric Effect, 1905, explains how shining a light on a copper plate can induce a electric current.
Many topics covered, worth reading if you are interested in science.
Purchased on 2017-12-11, AmazonMarketPlace (ChristianBookBag), 13.99$

Introducing Quantum Theory by J. P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate  (1996, ISBN 1-874166-37-4)
This is a "Graphic" book discussing the History and Ideas around Quantum Theory. The text is by J. P. McEvoy and the art work is by Oscar Zarate. The book covers the early part of the 1900's when various European physicists (Einstein, Pauli, Dirac, Schrodinger, Planck, Born, Bohr, De Broglie, Heisenberg, etc.) developed the modern theory of Atomic and sub-Atomic particles and forces.
The book may seem simplistic to some because of the graphics, but I think it does a good job of introducing the reader to the History and Ideas of Quantum Theory.
Purchased from Powell's books 8-26-2004 for $7.50.

Welcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A Strauss, J. Richard Gott (2016, ISBN 978-0-691-15724-5)
Subtitle-- An Astrophysical Tour.
Very interesting popular science book. It is divided into three sections-- I) Stars, Planets, and Life II) Galaxies III) Einstein and the Universe.

One chapter explains why Pluto is no longer considered a planet. Another chapter use the Drake equation to estimate the number of  active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. Time travel is explained.
The famous equation E=MC² is explained. Finally, a chapter is devoted to describing the ultimate fate of the Universe.
Christmas present 2016.

In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart, 2012, ISBN 978-0-465-02973-0. Subtitle: 17 Equations That Changed the World. This book has a label on the back the says Mathematics, but I think it should be labelled Physics, etc. It is really more about the subjects of the equations than the mathematics. Subjects discusses include Pythagora's Theorem, Logarithms, Calculus, Newton's Law of Gravity, Square Root of Minus One, Euler's Formula for Polyhedra, Normal Distribution, Wave Equation, Fourier Transform, Navier-Stokes Equation, Maxwell's Equations, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Relativity, Schrodingers Equation, Information Theory, Chaos Theory and Black-Scholes Equation.
If you are interested in how mathematics is used in the real world, I think this is a good introduction. It is well written, informative and I think entertaining. Sadly there is no list of books for further reading.
 Purchased from Amazon on 2013-3-7 for $20.51.

About Time by Paul Davies, 1995, ISBN 0-671-79964-9. The subject of this book is the temporal realm, the dimension of time. The author is a physicist. In technical literature he is listed as P. C. W. Davies. The subtitle is "Einstein's Unfinished Revolution" and much of the book is about general relativity and time dilation. The book starts with a brief history of how people have (and still do) think about time. Everyone experiences time. In some cultures they claim that all times exists together, others only see the Now. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the character Billy Pilgrim becomes aware of his disjointed time travels. Most of "About Time" is about time as it relates to modern physics. Good book. The book has 285 pages, a Preface, a Prologue, 14 chapters and an Epilogue. Plus Notes describing sources of quotes, etc., a Biblography and an Index.

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need To Know by Joanne Baker. ISBN 978-1-84724-148-1. This book, like the other "50 Ideas" books, contains 50 short descriptions of physics related subjects. Each subject gets four pages. This also includes diagrams and boxes on special terms (for example, in the section on chaos theory there is a box on the "butterfly effect".) Other subjects include Mach's Principle, Newton's laws, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion, the Big Bang, etc. These descriptions are very high level and aimed at a general audience. There are no references to help pursue a subject further, however, one can easily look them up in Wikipedia. I got his book for $5.99 at Borders.