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Popular science book series
The Scientific American Library is a
book series of
popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by
Scientific American books from 1983 to 1997. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a
Book of the Month Club selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.
[1]
Books include:
Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero by
Philip Morrison
Human Diversity by
Richard Lewontin
The Discovery of Subatomic Particles by
Steven Weinberg
The Science of Musical Sound by
John Robinson Pierce
Fossils and the History of Life by
George Gaylord Simpson
The Solar System: The Sun, Planets and Life by
Roman Smoluchowski
On Size and Life by
Thomas A. McMahon
Perception by
Irvin Rock
Constructing the Universe by
David Layzer
The Second Law by
P. W. Atkins
A Guided Tour of the Living Cell , Volume 1 by
Christian de Duve
A Guided Tour of the Living Cell , Volume 2 by Christian de Duve
Mathematics and Optimal Form by
Stefan Hildebrandt [
de ]
Fire by
John W. Lyons
Sun and Earth by
Herbert Friedman
Einstein's Legacy by
Julian Schwinger
Islands by
Henry William Menard
Drugs and the Brain by
Solomon H. Snyder
The Timing of Biological Clocks by
Arthur T. Winfree
Extinction by
Steven M. Stanley
Molecules by
P. W. Atkins
Eye, Brain, and Vision by
David H. Hubel
Science of Structures and Materials by
J. E. Gordon
Sand by
Raymond Siever [
de ]
The Honey Bee by
James L. Gould
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Animal Navigation by
Talbot H. Waterman
Sleep by
J. Allan Hobson
From Quarks to the Cosmos by
Leon M. Lederman
Sexual Selection by
James L. Gould
The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya by
Jeremy A. Sabloff
A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime by
John Archibald Wheeler
The Science of Telecommunications by
John Robinson Pierce
Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions by
Thomas F. Banchoff
Discovering Enzymes by
David Dressler
The Science of Words by
George Armitage Miller
Atoms, Electrons, and Change by
P. W. Atkins
Viruses by
Arnold J. Levine
Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest by
John Terborgh
[3]
Stars by
James B. Kaler
[4]
Exploring Biomechanics: Animals in Motion by
R. McNeill Alexander
Chemical Communication by
William C. Agosta
Genes and the Biology of Cancer by
Harold Varmus
Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science by
William J. Kaufmann III [
it ]
Molecules and Mental Illness by
Samuel H. Barondes
Exploring Planetary Worlds by
David Morrison
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[6]
Earthquakes and Geological Discovery by
Bruce A. Bolt
The Origin of Modern Humans by
Roger Lewin
The Evolving Coast by
Richard A. Davis
Life processes of plants by
Arthur W. Galston
[7]
Images of Mind by
Michael I. Posner
The Animal Mind by
James L. Gould
Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe by
Keith Devlin
[8]
A Short History of the Universe by
Joseph Silk
[9]
The Emergence of Agriculture by
Bruce D. Smith
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Atmosphere, Climate, and Change by
T. E. Graedel
Aging: A Natural History by
Robert E. Ricklefs
Investigating Disease Patterns: The Science of Epidemiology by
Paul D. Stolley
Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe by
Mitchell Begelman
Conservation and Biodiversity by
Andrew P. Dobson [
de ]
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Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany by
Michael J. Balick
Life at Small Scale: The Behavior of Microbes by
David B. Dusenbery
Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View by
Roger Lewin
Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere by
Vaclav Smil
Cosmic Clouds: Birth, Death, and Recycling in the Galaxy by
James B. Kaler
The Elusive Neutrino: A Subatomic Detective Story by
Nickolas Solomey
Lasers - Harnessing the Atoms Light by
James P. Harbison
Consciousness by
J. Allan Hobson
Evolving Brains by
John Morgan Allman
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[13]
Memory: From Mind to Molecules by
Larry R. Squire
Visual Computing by
Richard Mark Friedhoff
See also
References
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^ Maione, Ian (September–October 1999).
"The Honey Bee: By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. Scientific American Library, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-7167-6010-X. 239 pp. Paperback" .
Skeptical Inquirer . Vol. 23, no. 5. p. 52. Archived from
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"Stars, by James B. Kaler, (Scientific American Library, 1992), ISBN 0-7167-5033-3, 273 pages, hardcover, $24.95" .
Astronomy . Vol. 21, no. 6. June 1993. p. 93. Archived from
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^ Pemberton, Heather (November 1993).
"Exploring Planetary Worlds" . CD-ROM Professional . Vol. 6, no. 6.
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"Exploring Planetary Worlds: David Morrison, (Scientific American Library, 1993), ISBN 0-7167-5043-0, 238 pages, hardcover, $24.95" .
Astronomy . Vol. 22, no. 2. February 1994. p. 94. Archived from
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^ Van Volkenburgh, Elizabeth (January 1996).
"Life Processes of Plants" .
BioScience . 46 (1). Archived from
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^ Rial, J.A. (July–August 1995).
" 'The gate and the key of the sciences': Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Keith Devlin. 215 pp. Scientific American Library, 1994. $32.95" .
American Scientist . Vol. 83, no. 4. Archived from
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"A Short History of the Universe" .
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^ Van Epen, Karen (Winter 1995).
"The Emergence of Agriculture: Bruce D. Smith. Scientific American Library, 1994; 231 pp. ISBN 0-7167-5055-4. $32.95 ($35.95 postpaid)" .
Whole Earth Review . No. 88. p. 55. Archived from
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^ Saterson, Kathryn A. (July 1998).
"Conservation and Biodiversity: Andrew P. Dobson. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996. 264 pp., illus. $32.95 (ISBN 0-7167-5057-0 cloth)" .
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^ Kreyche, Gerald F. (May 1999).
"Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman / Scientific American Library, 1999, pp. 224, $34.95" .
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^ Sejnowski, Terrence J. (1999-02-19).
"Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman Scientific American Library, New York, 1999. 238 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-7167-5076-7" .
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