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Six Easy Pieces
Richard Phillips Feynman
Six lectures from Feynman's introductory course, aimed at a general reader, covering mechanics, energy, and quantum mechanics with few equations. (Open Library lists a 1994 edition; the book was first published in 1995.)
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Concepts of Physics
Harish Chandra Verma
A two-volume Indian undergraduate textbook widely used for entrance exam preparation, known for worked problems across classical physics. (Year is approximate; Open Library gives 1993.)
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Conceptual Physics
Paul G. Hewitt
An introductory textbook that teaches physical ideas with little mathematics and many everyday examples; it has been used for many years in US introductory courses.
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
A popular account of cosmology, black holes, and the search for a unified theory, written for readers without advanced training in physics.
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Relativity
Albert Einstein
Einstein's own non-technical explanation of special and general relativity, aimed at a general reader with some mathematical background. (The German original appeared in 1916; the English translation came later.)
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