Snail_Commando

I was going to suggest Gödel, Escher, Bach when you mentioned she was interested in art, and were hoping to find a technical book for her.

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" By Thomas S. Kuhn

"Galápagos" By Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, but related) (I loved this book, but it's not for everyone I suppose. A couple of my friends didn't like it.)

"Napoleon's Buttons" By Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson

"Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History" by Stephen Jay Gould

"Life on a Young Planet" By Andrew H. Knoll

"The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner

"The Diversity of Life" By Edward O. Wilson

"The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher" By Lewis Thomas

This textbook is incredible.