Best Science Books 2009: Physicsworld.com

Not surprisingly, a very fine list from the AIP's Physicsworld website:

• The Physics of Rugby by Trevor Davis
• First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science by Howard Burton
• Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity by Basil Mahon
• Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb by Jim Baggott
• Lives in Science by Joseph C Hermanowitz
• 13 Things That Don't Make Sense by Michael Brooks
• Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I Miller
• Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen
• Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich
• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo