How To By Randall Munroe! I love his books.
You are not questioning shit. You have to gain an adequate understanding of shit in order to question it, which you clearly lack. Here, for the 3rd time and with a suggestion: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Black-Hole-Cosmic-Quandaries-ebook/dp/B000XPPVCY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3K002LY62Y38D&keywords=death+by+black+hole&qid=1655858470&sprefix=death+by+black+hil%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1
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Sorry. Ok so i wrote the paragraph first because i thought they were taliing about Sunaura Taylors Book. Then i leaized my mistake and put in the edit.
Anyway here is an amazon link (buy it in a local bookstore if possible tho :)
https://www.amazon.de/Beasts-Burden-Disability-Liberation-English-ebook/dp/B06XBDPBYL
A number of assumptions in your reply make it clear that you do not value the lives of these animals and are only seeking to justify your own behavior. You do not have to eat meat or other animal products to live a healthy productive life, yet you justify animals being tortured “so you can eat”. The bar for an animal being reduced to property that can be tortured and killed for you is not scientific discovery, but your own taste. Similarly, you seem to think it’s okay for an animal to be reduced to entertainment as a companion, to be bred and separated from their family so they delight a human or human family who can decide on a whim whether they want to continue caring for or paying for medical treatment for such an animal. You do not value the life of most non-human animals, and so it is easy to justify using them as fodder for a specific type of scientific progress, even if the same or similar progress could be made more slowly using less exploitive means.
I don’t have time to respond to this as throughly as I would like, but I highly recommend reading Beasts of Burden which does a fantastic job deconstructing many of the moral assumptions in your comment.
There was a book written on this very subject about 10 years ago by a physicist.
I suggest reading it.
One book on the subject of physics that I quite liked when I was young was The Physics Of Superheroes.
In it the author looks at many different super heroes and provides them with one "miracle exception" to physics (e.g. the Flash can run really fast, Spiderman can somehow produce spider webs, etc), and then talks about the physics involved with some of the acts performed by those heroes.
For intuition, I recommend everything by Richard Feynman; a good starting point is Six Easy Pieces. Gerard ’t Hooft has a list of the subjects to master: How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist
<em>The Elements of Style</em> is very approachable with lots of examples. Getting good at reading closely takes time but it's a skill that can be learned.
For textbooks, you would need to be more specific on what topics you are interested in.
As for books you could find in Barnes & Noble (or similar stores), try The Math Book. It has short blurbs on a lot of really important mathematical ideas in chronological order. Also, the series "A Very Short Introduction to..." is really good.
EDIT: Also, this
Death By Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fun and easy read.
The Rape of Nanking is one of the best non fiction books I've ever read in how important, eye-opening and heart wrenching it is. Just know that Iris Chang, the author, was so disturbed by what she had learned and researched, that she killed herself shortly after writing the book.
*There are, obviously, countless great non-fiction books, these are just two I recently read on my Kindle.
I just ordered This Will Make You Smarter, a collection of essays on improving cognition. The authors are people known for thinking outside of the box, including Johah Lehrer, Richard Dawkins, Martin Seligman, Steven Pinker and Brian Eno. It's the brainchild of John Brockman, who publishes Edge.org.