science books

I'm looking for some book ideas for a book/s on: a scientific temper/ worldview; on critical thinking; or just on science. Something fun, for a 10-year-old. Ideally what I'd be looking for is something like Dawkins's The Magic of Reality. Except I think that book's more suitable for someone...

I'm going to request this be a sticky for this forum. Please add your top books AND some commentary and review, what you found AWESOME! ;) ....not just a laundry list please. •••• This guy is flat out fun...not just for science readers.... a total delightful triology - you'll find yourself...

Here is a really good source for ebooks about science: Download the Universe. From their About page: It's now one of my bookmarks.

Which of these questions can and has science provided some answers for? Anyone with links to books, papers, studies, ideas etc...

just an idea - perhaps it's been tried before.... basically a grouping together of the best, most accessible books to introduce layfolk to different scientific fields as a kind of rough and ready outline there could be General science - books that take in the whole lot, either as reference...

When I was a kid, I loved a series of books that I would check out from the library again and again. It was a series by Time magazine maybe. Each covered a general subject of science like "life" or "time" or "energy". It's funny. There was several of them, but the only one I remember any...