An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Written by Oliver Sacks

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-75697-2 (0-679-75697-3)

Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an... Read more >

A Briefer History of Time

Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $27.00
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-553-80436-2 (0-553-80436-7)

Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author’s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe... Read more >

Earth
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70620-2 (0-375-70620-8)

From the acclaimed author of Life and Trilobite!, a fascinating geological exploration of the earth’s distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.

The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed and changed again over billions of years, and the testament of... Read more >

Einstein's Dreams

Written by Alan Lightman

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7780-9 (1-4000-7780-X)

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one... Read more >

Evolution
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Written by Edward J. Larson

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6849-1 (0-8129-6849-2)

In this lively, deeply erudite work, Pulitzer Prize–winning science historian Edward J. Larson takes us on a guided tour of Darwin’s “dangerous idea,” from its theoretical antecedents in the early nineteenth century to the brilliant breakthroughs of Darwin and Wallace, to Watson and Crick’s stunning discovery of the DNA double helix... Read more >

Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 978-0-385-34021-2 (0-385-34021-4)

"This is a book of tall claims about evolution: that it can be uncontroversial; that the basic principles are easy to learn; that everyone should want to learn them, once their implications are understood; that evolution and religion...can be brought harmoniously together."--From Evolution for Everyone

Polls show that more than half of... Read more >

The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Written by Brian Greene

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-72720-7 (0-375-72720-5)

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most... Read more >

The Future of Life

Written by Edward O. Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-76811-1 (0-679-76811-4)

One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time and the... Read more >

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Written by Stephen Jay Gould

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5153-3 (1-4000-5153-3)

In his final book, eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities—twin realms of knowledge that have historically been divided against each other.

To establish his two protagonists, Gould draws from a 7th century... Read more >

Our Own Devices
How Technology Remakes Humanity
Written by Edward Tenner

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70707-0 (0-375-70707-7)

From the author of Why Things Bite Back—which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology—Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us, position us, or enhance our performance.

In helping and hurting us, these body technologies have produced consequences that their makers... Read more >

The Scientist as Rebel

Written by Freeman Dyson

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $27.95
Publisher: New York Review Books
ISBN: 978-1-59017-216-2 (1-59017-216-7)

An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls “one of the world’s most original minds.”

In the view of the prize-winning physicist Freeman J. Dyson, science, wherever it practiced, is characterized by its rebellion against the restrictions of local cultures. Like art and poetry, it resists... Read more >

A Sense of the Mysterious
Science and the Human Spirit
Written by Alan Lightman

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7819-6 (1-4000-7819-9)

Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman has lived in the dual worlds of science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays, the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty, logic... Read more >

Social Intelligence
The New Science of Human Relationships
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-553-38449-9 (0-553-38449-X)

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-553-80540-6 (0-553-80540-1)

"In the past, one could get by on intuition and experience. Times have changed. Today, the name of the game is data. Ian Ayres shows us how and why in this groundbreaking book Super Crunchers. Not only is it fun to read, it just may change the way you think."
—Steven D... Read more >

A User's Guide to the Brain
Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
Written by John J. Ratey, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70107-8 (0-375-70107-9)

With his acclaimed Shadow Syndromes and the bestselling Driven to Distraction, Harvard professor John J. Ratey has been at the forefront in explaining the current revolution in the neurosciences. In this new work, he guides us through the brain’s workings and its role in our behavior.

Recent discoveries have revealed the brain... Read more >