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A fascinating, behind-the-scenes exploration of how scientific experts help Hollywood manufacture plausible cinematic illusions. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Lab coats in Hollywood.
- intellectual
- curious
- behind-the-scenes
- 01
A history of narrative film
David A. Cook · 1981
A sweeping, encyclopedic journey through the darkened theaters of history, tracing how moving pictures learned to tell stories.
- 02
The Science of Interstellar
Kip Thorne
A mind-expanding journey that bridges the gap between Hollywood spectacle and the awe-inspiring realities of theoretical physics.
- 03
Napoleon's Buttons
Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson
A fascinating, perspective-shifting journey that reveals the invisible chemical scaffolding holding up human history.
- 04
How things work
Louis A. Bloomfield · 1997
An empowering, accessible guide that turns the mundane objects of daily life into fascinating puzzles of physics.
- 05
Understanding movies
Louis D. Giannetti
An illuminating masterclass that forever changes how you watch the silver screen.
- 06
Failure is not an option
Gene Kranz
A gripping, sweat-inducing seat inside the control room where brilliant minds chain-smoked their way through impossible crises.
- 07
2010, odyssey two
Arthur C. Clarke · 1982
A methodical, awe-inspiring journey into the void that answers lingering cosmic mysteries with rigorous science and philosophical wonder.
- 08
A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin · 1995
An intimate, awe-inspiring journey that puts you inside the minds and spacesuits of the first humans to leave our world.
- 09
The Day the Universe Changed
Burke, James · 1985
A dizzying, exhilarating ride through the hidden connections and paradigm shifts that built the modern mind.
- 10
The golem
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
A provocative, eye-opening tour through the messy, human, and deeply social machinery that produces scientific truth.
- 11
The age of wonder
Holmes, Richard
A sweeping, luminous journey into the minds of the dreamers and explorers who married poetry with the scientific method.
- 12
Apollo 8
Jeffrey Kluger
A white-knuckle journey into the void that captures both the claustrophobic terror of spaceflight and the soaring triumph of human ingenuity.
