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.
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 & John Tyler Bonner 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 & Anthony Joseph Tromba Fire by John W. Lyons Sun and Earth by Herbert Friedman Einstein's Legacy : The Unity of Space and Time 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 The Honey Bee by James L. Gould Animal Navigation by Talbot H. Waterman Sleep by J. Allan Hobson From Quarks to the Cosmos : Tools of Discovery by Leon M. Lederman & David N. Schramm 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 Stars by James B. Kaler 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 Molecules and Mental Illness by Samuel H. Barondes Exploring Planetary Worlds by David Morrison 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 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 A Short History of the Universe by Joseph Silk The Emergence of Agriculture by Bruce D. Smith 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 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 Memory: From Mind to Molecules by Larry R. Squire Visual Computing by Richard Mark Friedhoff
See also Princeton Science Library Science Masters series
References
External links Scientific American Library Book Series (thriftbooks.com) Scientific American Library | LibraryThing