Ask HN: What are your favorite physics sites, documentaries, books?
I broke up my list into cultural (that is, about the people, history, etc), popular (that is, not aimed at a student or an expert), and texts.<p>CULTURAL<p>Einstein                                - Essays in Humanism<p>Frayn                                   - Copenhagen<p>Feynman                                 - Surely You&#x27;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!<p>Feynman                                 - What Do You Care What Other People Think?<p>de Grasse Tyson                         - Death by Black Hole<p>Hoffman                                 - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers<p>Kaiser                                  - Drawing Theories Apart<p>Kaiser                                  - How the Hippied Saved Physics<p>Macaulay                                - The Way Things Work<p>Paulos                                  - Innumeracy<p>Sagan                                   - Cosmos<p>Sagan                                   - Broca&#x27;s Brain<p>Sagan                                   - The Demon-Haunted World<p>Salam                                   - Science in the Third World<p>Seife                                   - Zero<p>Weisskopf                               - The Joy of Insight<p>POPULAR<p>Deutsch                                 - The Beginning of Infinity (especially his explanation about fungibility in quantum mechanics)<p>Feynman                                 - The Meaning of It All<p>Feynman                                 - Lectures on Physics<p>Feynman and Weinberg                    - Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics<p>Galison                                 - Einstein&#x27;s Clocks, Poincaré&#x27;s Maps<p>Gamow                                   - One, Two, Three... Infinity<p>Hadamard                                - Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field<p>Hawking                                 - A Brief History of Time<p>Hofstadter                              - Gödel Escher Bach<p>Heisenberg                              - Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science<p>Polya                                   - How to Solve It<p>Schrödinger                             - What is Life?<p>Susskind                                - The Theoretical Minimum<p>Susskind                                - Quantum Mechanics<p>Wallace                                 - Everything And More<p>Weinberg                                - The First Three Minutes<p>Wiener                                  - God &amp; Golem, Inc.<p>TEXTS<p>Aaronson                                - Quantum Computing with Democritus (but I don&#x27;t have a version with me in the acknowledgements <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=jRGfhSoFx0oC&amp;lpg=PR31&amp;ots=PCRKMZ9sg_&amp;dq=evan+berkowitz+democritus+aaronson&amp;pg=PR31&amp;hl=en#v=onepage&amp;q=evan berkowitz democritus aaronson&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=jRGfhSoFx0oC&amp;lpg=PR31&amp;ots=...</a> )<p>Abelson and Sussman                     - SICP<p>Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dzyaloshinski    - Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics<p>Cohen-Tannoudji                         - Quantum Mechanics (1+2)<p>Dirac                                   - Lectures on Quantum Mechanics<p>Eddington                               - Space, Time, and Gravitation<p>Feynman                                 - Feynman&#x27;s Thesis<p>Feynman and Hibbs                       - Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals<p>Fermi                                   - Thermodynamics<p>Gattringer &amp; Lang                       - Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice<p>Goldstein                               - Classical Mechanics (the old version, NOT with Poole and Safko)<p>Griffiths                               - Introduction to Electrodynamics<p>Griffiths                               - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics<p>Jackson                                 - Classical Electrodynamics (2nd edition---the last one entirely in CGS---is preferable)<p>Kleppner and Kolenkow                   - An Introduction to Mechanics<p>Landau and Lifshitz                     - any book in this series<p>Nielsen and Chuang                      - Quantum Computation and Quantum Information<p>Pauli                                   - Selected Topics in Field Quantization<p>Peskin &amp; Schroeder                      - An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory<p>Purcell                                 - Electricity and Magnetism<p>Ryden                                   - Introduction to Cosmology<p>Sakurai                                 - Modern Quantum Mechanics (up to chapter 5, after which Sakurai dies and the editors put his notes together)<p>Sussman and Wisdom                      - Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics<p>Sipser                                  - Introduction to the Theory of Computation<p>Thorne                                  - Black Holes &amp; Time Warps<p>Thouless                                - The Quantum Mechanics of Many-Body Systems<p>Weinberg                                - The Quantum Theory of Fields I, II, and III<p>Zee                                     - Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell