there is an awesome bookstore in cambridge called harvard bookstore. they are open until either 11pm or 10pm every day, so of course i spent some quality time there. here is a list (ironically, linking to the one store that has decent ASIN / ISBN coverage):
It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
The FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science
The Atoms of Language: The Mind’s Hidden Rules of Grammar