How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here ...
Vaclav Smil
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, ...
Michael Shermer
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene