If I wanted to communicate as much as possible to someone about my worldview by asking them to read just one book, which book would I choose?
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
What others? Out of an ever-growing list:
Minds Make Societies by Pascal Boyer
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski
The Western Intellectual Tradition by Jacob Bronowski
The Ant and the Peacock by Helena Cronin
The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
Philosophy and the Real World by Bryan Magee
Critical Rationalism by David Miller
Out of Error by David Miller
On Popper by Mark Notturno
Science and the Open Society by Mark Notturno
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper
Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper
The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper
The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper
The Future and its Enemies by Virgina Postrel
Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch
Human Nature After Darwin by Janet Radcliffe-Richards
The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley
Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell