Best non-science books for scientists

Description
Scientists and engineers proverbially don't read, especially not books with pages and pages of text unrelieved by matrices or partial differential equations. So, which books from the arts and humanities might stand a chance of breaking through into the scientific mind?
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1
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte
5,000 members
56 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
pammab, smcwl, C4RO
2
How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
by Mortimer J. Adler
7,360 members
76 reviews
4
2 Members
smcwl, aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: This will give them a good solid idea of what they might get out of reading non-science.
3
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
4,782 members
58 reviews
4
2 Members
smcwl, abbottthomas
4
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age
by Simon Schama
1,526 members
13 reviews
4.1
2 Members
cpg, thorold
5
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by E. H. Gombrich
1,067 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
6
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
by Gunther Kress
129 members
1 review
½ 3.5
2 Members
pammab, smcwl
7
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,173 members
18 reviews
3.8
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C4RO
8
Seven Types of Ambiguity
by William Empson
806 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
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thorold
9
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
8,066 members
286 reviews
4.2
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pammab
10
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
by David Cannadine
446 members
3 reviews
4
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thorold
11
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,521 members
43 reviews
4.2
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smcwl