1. What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty. Edited by John Brockman (2006), this is a series of blurbs and brief essays by scientists, physicists, mathematicians, behavioral scientists, geneticists, biologists, and philosophers from around the world. Some of these intellectual thoughts can be found on a website (kind of like TED) for these folks to share their ideas: www.edge.org.
Interesting reading. It's nice for a quick break from more intensive stuff. Each blurb is only 1-2 very short pages (at most). They ask questions like : Who are we? What does it mean to be human? Where did the universe come from? How do we know what we "know"?
2. Quantum Theory -A Very Short Introduction by John Polkinghorne (2002) It's quantum theories and particle physics, briefly.
3. The Ethics of War and Peace by Nigel Dower (2009), a look at the ethics and morality behind justifications for war and peace (non-violence).
4. Doing Case Study Research by Dawson Hancock and Bob Algozzine (2006)
5. Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research by LeCompte & Schensul (2010)
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