Reddit reviews Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

Try Alice in Quantumland. Quantum physics explained through simple allegories just like how Lewis Carroll described the problems of complex mathematics.

Thats it for purely skeptic books, but some other science ones are

EDIT: Found this page http://www.csicop.org/si/show/skeptical_books_for_children_and_young_adults/

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Alice In Quantumland

Alice in Quantumland. There might be a free pdf somewhere online. I briefly checked out this book in high school and it seems like a potentially cute/graspable way to describe physics.

I love science books. These are all on my bookshelf/around my apt. They aren't all chemistry, but they appeal to my science senses:

I got a coffee table book once as a gift. It's Theodore Gray's The Elements. It's beautiful, but like I said, more of a coffee table book. It's got a ton of very cool info about each atom though.

I tried The Immortal Life of Henrieta Lacks, which is all about the people and family behind HeLa cells. That was a big hit, but I didn't care for it.

I liked The Emperor of all Maladies which took a long time to read, but was super cool. It's essentially a biography of cancer. (Actually I think that's it's subtitle)

The Wizard of Quarks and Alice in Quantumland are both super cute allegories relating to partical physics and quantum physics respectively. I liked them both, though they felt low-level, tying them to high-level physics resulted in a fun read.

Unscientific America I bought on a whim and didn't really enjoy since it wasn't science enough.

The Ghost Map was a suuuper fun read about Cholera. I love reading about mass-epidemics and plague.

The Bell that Rings Light, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, Schrödinger's Kittens, The Fabric of the Cosmos and Beyond the God Particle are all pleasure reading books that are really primers on Quantum.

I also tend to like anything by Mary Roach, which isn't necessarily chemistry or science, but is amusing and feels informative. I started with Stiff but she has a few others that I also enjoyed.

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I enjoyed Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore. It gave a good, entertaining overview of the basics of Quantum physics and tied well to the story of Alice in Wonderland.
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This was a fun intro for me, Alice in Quantumland. Breaks it down without being too simplistic.

There's Alice in Quantumland for quantum mechanics. I read this in middle school, though, and I don't recall how much I liked it any more.

There's also the very excellent The Einstein Paradox, which goes through a lot of early 20th century physics, including relativity and quantum mechanics, via Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The author actually does a good job copy Conan Doyle's voice to a good extent. And the stories are all individually entertaining. This book had a pretty big impact on me and I can't recommend it enough. (The same author has another book in the same vein about economics as well.)

You might also enjoy reading biographies of physicists. Some go into a little detail on the physics itself.

oh! oh! I've been waiting to share this. Alice in Quantumland
I read it when I was in 8th grade and it got me hooked on nuclear science. Hardly any equations, just some cool concepts explained through a brilliantly written story.

Edit: ok, it's not a textbook. just something fun to read if you're newly interested in atomic science :)

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Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore is an excellent allegory for quantum physics.