QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson | 
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Einstein and the Quantum
by A. Douglas Stone | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant | 
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Universe
by Martin Rees | 
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell | 
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy | 
Murmurs of Earth
by Carl Sagan | 
Understanding the Universe
by Don Lincoln | 
Power, Sex, Suicide
by Nick Lane | 
The Ocean World
by Jacques-Yves Cousteau | 
Every Day On Earth
by Steve Murrie | 
The Tangled Web
by Michal Zalewski | 
Nature's Building Blocks
by John Emsley | 
Microcosm
by Carl Zimmer |
Classic one-volume treatise covers mathematical topics needed by theoretical and experimental physicists (vector analysis, calculus of variations, etc.), followed by extensive coverage of mechanics, electromagnetic theory, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics. Indispensable reference for graduates and undergraduates.