SCIENCE TRADE BOOKS BY AUTHOR

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A-C

Adams, James L.
Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer

Ahlgren, Andrew and Franz Halberg
Cycles of Nature: An Introduction to Biological Rhythms

Allegre, Claude and translated by Deborah Kurmes Van Dam
From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology

Asimov, Isaac
Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos

Asimov, Isaac
Beginnings: The Story of Origins--of Mankind, Life Earth Universe

Asimov, Isaac
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space

Augros, Robert and George Stanciu
The New Biology: Discovering the Wisdom in Nature

Beniger, James R.
The Control Revolution: Technical and Economic Origins of the Information Society

Bornstein, Sandy
What Makes You What You Are: A First Look at Genetics

Bortz, Fred
Superstuff!

Boslough, John
Stephen Hawking's Universe

Bronowski, Jacob
The Ascent of Man

Bronowski, Jacob
The Common Sense of Science

Bronzino, Joseph D., Vincent H. Smith, and Maurice L. Wade
Medical Technology and Society

Brown, Kenneth A.
Inventors at Work: Interviews with 16 Notable American Inventors

Brush, Stephen G.
The History of Modern Science: A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800-1950

Clark, Ronald W.
Works of Man

Cohen, Bernard L.
The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the '90s

Copp, Newton H. and Andrew W. Zanella
Discovery, Innovation and Risk: Case Studies in Science and Technology
 


D-F

Day, Nancy
Animal Experimentation: Cruelty or Science?

Dethier, Vincent Gaston
To Know a Fly

Dubos, Rene
Pasteur and Modern Science

Dunham, William
The Mathematical Universe

Edey, Maitland A. and Donald C. Johanson
Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution

Ferguson, Eugene S.
Engineering and the Mind's Eye

Fichter, George S.
Cells

Flannery, Maura C.
Bitten by the Biology Bug

Fritzsch, Harald and translated by Karin Heusch
An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
 



 

 
G-J

Gamow, George
One Two Three...Infinity

Gardiner, A.
Discovering Mathematics: The Art of Investigation

Gardiner, Brian
Energy Demands

Gardner, Martin
Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments

Gardner, Martin (Ed.)
Great Essays in Science

Gest, Howard
The World of Microbes

Goldstein, Martin and Inge F. Goldstein
How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific Process

Goldstein, Martin and Inge F. Goldstein
The Refrigerator and the Universe: Understanding the Laws of Energy

Gould, Stephen Jay
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Gould, Stephen Jay
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Grant, Susan
Beauty and the Beast: The Coevolution of Plants and Animals

Grinnell, Frederick
The Scientific Attitude, 2nd ed.

Halmos, Paul R.
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

Heilbroner, Robert L and Lester C. Thurow
Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going

Hindle, Brooke and Steven Lubar
Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860

Hoffman, Paul
Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics

Holton, Robert J.
Economy and Society

Huff, Darrell
How to Lie with Statistics

Jones, Steve
The Language of Genes

Judson, Horace Freeland
The Search for Solutions
 



 

 
K-M

Kanigel, Robert
Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

Kaufmann, William J. III and Larry L. Smarr
Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science

Kennedy, June C.
A View from the Heart: Bayou Country Ecology

Kircher, Harry, Donald Wallace, and Dorothy Gore
Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation, 7th ed.

Kohn, Alfie
You Know What They Say...: The Truth About Popular Beliefs

de Kruif, Paul
Microbe Hunters

Lampton, Christopher
New Theories on the Origins of the Human Race

Lampton, Christopher
Telecommunications: From Telegraphs to Modems

Lasky, Kathryn
Traces of Life: the Origins of Humankind

Lee, Thomas F.
Gene Future: The Promise and Perils of the New Biology

March, Robert H.
Physics for Poets

Marion, Robert
Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country? A Clinical Geneticist Looks at World History

Marks, John
Science and the Making of the Modern World

Mason, Stephen F.
A History of the Sciences

McGowan, Chris
Diatoms to Dinosaurs: The Size and Scale of Living Things

McGowen, Tom
Radioactivity: From the Curies to the Atomic Age

McKenzie, A. E. E.
The Major Achievements of Science: The Development of Science from Ancient Times to the Present

Milner, Richard
Charles Darwin: Evolution of a Naturalist

Moore, David S.
Statistics Concepts and Controversies

Morowitz, Harold J.
Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life: Thoughts of Minds and Molecules

Morrison, Philip and Phylis, and the office of Charles and Ray Eames
Powers of Ten: A Book about the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero
 


N-P

National Research Council
On the Shoulders of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracy

Newman, James R.
The World of Mathematics

Norman, Donald A.
The Design of Everyday Things

Nourse, Alan E.
The Virus Invaders

Overbye, Dennis
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

Paulos, John Allen
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Paulos, John Allen
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Petroski, Henry
To Engineer is Human

Pollack, Robert
Signs of Life

Polya, George
How to Solve It

Pool, Ithiel De Sola
Technologies without Boundaries: On Telecommunications in a Global Age

Prost, Antoine and Gérard Vincent (editors), translated by Arthur Goldhammer
A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times
 



 

 
Q-S

Quammen, David
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

Raymo, Chet
The Virgin and the Mousetrap: Essays in Search of the Soul of Science

Reader, John
Man on Earth

Reid, Constance
From Zero to Infinity, 4th ed.

Restak, Richard M.
The Brain

Rose, Kenneth Jon
The Body in Time

Rothman, Milton A.
The Science Gap: Dispelling the Myths and Understanding the Reality of Science

Rothman, Tony
A Physicist on Madison Avenue

Sacks, Oliver
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Savage, R. J. G.
Mammal Evolution: An Illustrated Guide

Scott, Andrew
The Creation of Life: Past, Future, Alien

Smith, Anthony
The Body

Smith, Anthony
The Mind

Solbrig, Otto T. and Dorothy J. Solbrig
So Shall You Reap: Farming and Crops in Human Affairs

Spangenburg, Ray and Diane K. Moser
The History of Science from 1895 to 1945

Spangenburg, Ray and Diane K. Moser
The History of Science from the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution

Spangenburg, Ray and Diane K. Moser
The History of Science in the Eighteenth Century

Spangenburg, Ray and Diane K. Moser
The History of Science in the Nineteenth Century

Spielberg, Nathan and Bryon D. Anderson
Seven Ideas That Shook the Universe

Stefoff, Rebecca
Extinction

Stock, Gregory
Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism

Stwertka, Albert
Recent Revolutions in Mathematics

Stwertka, Albert and Eve
Physics: From Newton to the Big Bang

Szasz, Ferenc Morton
The Day the Sun Rose Twice


T-V

Taubes, Gary
Bad Science

Teich, Albert H. (Ed.)
Technology and the Future, 6th ed.

Thomas, Lewis
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Thomas, Lewis
The Lives of a Cell: notes of a biology watcher

Thomas, Lewis
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

Toulmin, Stephen and June Goodfield
Discovery of Time

Toulmin, Stephen and June Goodfield
The Fabric of the Heavens

Truxal, John G.
The Age of Electronic Messages

Tudge, Colin
Global Ecology

Turnbull, Colin M.
The Human Cycle


W-Z

Weaver, Warren
Lady Luck

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

Weiner, Jonathan
Planet Earth

Weisskopf, Victor F.
Knowledge and Wonder--The Natural World as Man Knows It

Wolfson, Richard
Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology

Zinsser, Hans
Rats, Lice and History