MORE REVIEWS OF BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE
TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Germ Warfare: Breakthroughs in Immunology

By Alan G. Baxter, Allen & Unwin, 220pp

 

Almost Like A Whale: The Origin of Species Updated

By Steve Jones, Doubleday/Transworld, 402pp

 

As Nature Made Him: The Boy W ho Was Raised as a Girl

By John Colapinto, HarperCollins, 281pp

 

Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Nature's Engines and the Order of Life

By Chris Lavers, Gollancz, 238pp

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions

By Richard Lewontin, Granta Books, 330pp

 

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace

By Margaret Wertheim, Doubleday, 322pp

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

By Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape, 405pp

 

Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind

By V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, Fourth Estate

Mapping the Mind

By Rita Carter, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp

One Renegade Cell: The Quest for the Origins of Cancer

By Robert Weinberg, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 170pp

Forever Young: Science and the Search for Immortality

By Jim Schnabel, Bloomsbury, 229pp

 

The Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

By Lynn Margulis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 146pp

 

The End of Time

By Julian Barbour, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Time: A Traveler's Guide

By Clifford A. Pickover, Oxford University Press

Surfing Through Hyperspace

By Clifford A. Pickover, Oxford University Press

 

HOW NATURE WORKS: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

by Per Bak

Oxford University Press, 212pp

HOW THE MIND WORKS

by Steven Pinker

Allen Lane, 660pp

 

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

By Richard Rhodes, Simon & Schuster, 259pp

Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead

By Gina Kolata, Allen Lane, 218pp

At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity

By William R. Clark, Oxford University Press, 275pp

 

Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

By Carl Sagan, Hodder Headline, 244pp

Carl Sagan's Universe

Edited by Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, Cambridge University Press, 282pp

The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

By Timothy Ferris, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 393pp

Time's Arrow & Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time

By Huw Price, Oxford University Press, 306pp

 

The Meaning of It All

By Richard P. Feynman, Allen Lane, 133pp

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

By Michael J. Behe, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster,

Lamarck's Signature

By Edward J. Steele, Robyn A. Lindley and Robert V. Blanden, Allen & Unwin, 286pp

Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek

By Susan Jenkins, MD and Robert Jenkins, MD, PhD, HarperCollins, 189pp

 

Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge

By Edward O. Wilson, Little, Brown, 374pp

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

By Richard Dawkins, Allen Lane, 337pp

Darwinism Today chapbooks

By sundry authors, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 50-70pp

 

LIFE'S GRANDEUR: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

By Stephen Jay Gould

Jonathan Cape, 244pp

AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE: The Search for Laws of Complexity

By Stuart Kauffman

Penguin, 321pp

PLAN AND PURPOSE IN NATURE

By George Williams

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 191pp

 

KINDS OF MINDS: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness

By Daniel C. Dennett

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 184pp

HOW BRAINS THINK: Evolving Intelligence Then and Now

By William H. Calvin

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 184pp

THE CONSCIOUS MIND: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

By David J. Chalmers

Oxford University Press, 414pp

 

THE LIFE OF THE COSMOS

by Lee Smolin

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 358pp

THE FABRIC OF REALITY

by David Deutsch

Allen Lane, 390pp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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