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Bibliography for Richard Feynman

• Brown, Laurie M. and John S. Rigden. Most of the Good Stuff: Memories of Richard Feynman. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993.
• Feynman, Richard. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Library, 1985.
• ----------------. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, ed. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, and M. Sands, 3 Vols. California: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1963.
• ----------------. Elementary Particles and The Laws of Physics. The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures.
• ----------------.Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! , co-authored and edited by Ralph Leighton. 1987; rpt. NY: Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-31604-1.
• ----------------. "What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?", co- authored and edited by Ralph Leighton. 1988; rpt. NY: Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32092-8
• ----------------. No Ordinary Genius, co-authored and edited by Christopher Sykes. New York: Norton, 1994. ISBN 0-39-03621-9
• ---------------. Six Easy Pieces. Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher. NY: Addison-Wesley, Helix Book, 1995.
• ----------------. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces : Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time. NY: Addison-Wesley, Helix Book, 1998.
• ----------------. The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist. Perseus Press, 1999.
• -----------------. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. New York: Perseus Press, 1999.
• ----------------. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, ed., introd. Michelle Feynman. Foreword by Timothy Ferris. NY: Basic Books, 2005.
• ----------------. Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, with a commemorative DC, ed. Ralph Leighton. NY: Norton, 2006. This book is a reprint of Surely You're Joking and What do YOU Care, with the chapters from each interwoven in more or less chronological order. It has some notes by Leighton, a foreword by Freeman Dyson and an afterward by Alan. Alda.
• Ferris, Timothy, "Stumbling into Space," a review of The Columbia Accident Investigative Report and Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age by Greg Klerkx, New York Review of Books, 51:7 (2004), online.
• Funston, Judith E, "Critique of the Challenger Disaster," a review of The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughn, H-Net, 1996, on line. Funston is at State University of New York at Potsdam. Fron H-Net and the Popular Culture and the American Culture Associations (reprint).
• Gleick, James. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
• Goodstein, David L. and Judith R. Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
• Gribbon, John and Mary. Richard Feynman: A Life in Science. New York: Dutton, 1997.
• Kaiser, David. Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Leighton, Ralph. TUVA or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey. New York: Penguin, 1991.
• Mattuck, Richard D. A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem. Second Edition. New York: Dover, 1976.
• Mehra, Jagdish. The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1994.
• Mlodinow, Leonard. A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life. Warner Bros, 2003. ISBN: 044653045X
• Sykes, Christopher, ed. No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman. NY: W. W. Norton, 1994.
• Vaughn, Diane. he Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Westwick, Peter J. Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004. Yale University Press, 2007. An important book for understanding Feynman's motivations for joining the Challenger investigation. JPL is connected to Cal Tech whose "faculty constantly criticized the inroads the military was making." See review of book by David DeVorkin, in American Scientist, 95 (July/August 2007):366-367.