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ACZEL, AMIR D. Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Everything Else. Thunder's Mouth: Avalon, dist. by Publishers Group West. Nov. 2004. c.176p. ISBN 1-56850-316-8. $21. MATH […]

GOODCHILD, PETER. Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove. Harvard Univ. Oct. 2004. c.352p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 6674-01669-6. $29.95. SCI Teller, who died last year at age 95, was world […]

HALPERN, PAUL. The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything. Wiley. Jul. 2004. c.320p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-471-46595-X. $27.95. SCI Many physicists […]

Kaku, Michio. Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. Norton. (Great Discoveries.) Apr. 2004. c.240p. bibliog. ISBN 0-393-05165-X. $22.95. SCI Theoretical physicist Kaku has […]

Joseph Henry: National Academy. Apr. 2004. c.256p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-309-08998-0. $27.95. SCI Bolles (The Ice Finders; Galileo's Commandment) retells the story of modern physicists' struggle to reach a full [...]

Norton. Aug. 2003. c.256p, illus, bibliog. 0-393-02001-0. $23.95. SCI At the beginning of this book, Galison, a Harvard-based historian of science, notes that relativity theory starts with a concern for [...]

Viking. Jul. 2003. c.273p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-670-03179-8. $24.95. SCI Science journalist Seife (Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea) describes the history of cosmology in terms of three 'revolutions.' [...]

Oxford Univ. Apr. 2003. c.288p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 019-514743-X. $25. MATH The Kaplans are founders of the Math Circle, a school that teaches the enjoyment of mathematics, […]

Pantheon: Random. Jan. 2003. c.368p. index. ISBN 0-375-42221-8. $26. SCI A writer in cosmology with roughly a dozen books for lay readers to his credit (e.g., The Book of Nothing), [...]

Oxford Univ. Nov. 2002. 240p. illus. index. ISBN 0-19-850486-1. $45. SCI Incorporating much new material, this revised version of the authors' The Particle Explosion (1987) details the history of particle […]

Four Walls Eight Windows. Oct. 2002. c.304p. illus. index. LC 2002069338. ISBN 1-56858-232-3. $25. SCI 'Entanglement' is one of the more remarkable aspects of quantum mechanics, a field that has [...]

Joseph Henry: National Academy. Sept. 2002. c.224p, index. ISBN 0-309-08407-5. $24.95. SCI Siegfried's title is a pun of sorts, referring both to strange matter, i.e., matter composed of up, down, [...]

Joseph Henry: National Academy. 2002. c.250p. illus. index. ISBN 0-309-07642-0. $27.95. SCI Science writer and education specialist Carlowicz (NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.) and physicist Lopez (Univ. of Texas, El [...]

Upgren, Arthur. The Turtle and the Stars: Observations of an Earthbound Astronomer. Times Bks. May 2002. c.288p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8050-7094-X. $26. SCI Upgren, a professional astronomer associated with [...]

Dorminey, Bruce. Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System. Copernicus: Springer-Verlag. Dec. 2001. c.240p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2001047132. ISBN 0-387-95074-5. $29.95. SCI In 1995, the first [...]

Osterbrock, Donald E. Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics. Princeton Univ. Nov. 2001. c.256p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-691-04936-X. $29.95.SCI Baade was perhaps the preeminent observational astronomer in [...]

* Dewdney, A. K. A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos. Wiley. 1999. c.224p. permanent paper. illus. index. LC 98-36470. ISBN 0-471-23847-3. $22.95. MATH Dewdney, [...]

Benson, Donald C. The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies. Oxford Univ. 1999. c.331p, illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 0-19-511721-2. $39.95. SCI Benson, a retired mathematics professor, is trying for something a [...]

Fisher, David E. & Marshall Jon Fisher. Strangers in the Night: A Brief History of Life on Other Worlds. Counterpoint, dist. by Publishers Group West. 1998. c.320p. photogs. ISBN 1-887178-87-2. [...]

Dick, Steven J. Life on Other Worlds: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Debate. Cambridge Univ. 1998. c.304p. photogs. ISBN 0-521-62012-0. $24.95. SCI A nuclear physicist and a journalist, respectively, the Fishers [...]

Schechter, Bruce. My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos. S. & S. Sept. 1998. c.352p, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-684-84635-7. $25. MATH Written by a former editor at [...]

Strathern, Paul. Hawking and Black Holes. LC 97-52136. ISBN 0-385-49242-1. These two volumes are the first in a new series of Anchor paperback originals devoted to brief biographies of noted [...]

Strathern, Paul. Newton and Gravity. LC 97-52135. ISBN 0-385-49241-3. ea. vol: Anchor: Doubleday. (Big Idea). 1998. c.112p. pap. $9.95. SCI These two volumes are the first in a new series [...]

Lemonick, Michael D. S. & S. May 1998. c.352p. index. ISBN 0-684-83294-1. $25. SCI This new book by Time senior science writer Lemonick (The Light at the Edge of the [...]

After summarizing the history of the discovery of the outer planets in our solar system, science writer Croswell (The Alchemy of the Heavens, LJ 4/15/95) moves on to the exciting [...]

Guth, Alan. Helix Bks.: Addison-Wesley. 1997. c.368p. illus. index. ISBN 0-201-14942-7. $25. SCI In late 1979, Guth developed concept of the 'inflationary universe,' proposing that, very soon after the Big [...]

Park, David. Princeton Univ. Jul. 1997. c.550p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-691-04332-9. $29.95. SCI Park's history of the concept and science of light begins with the classical Greek [...]

* Ferris, Timothy. S. & S. May 1997. c.464p. illus. index. ISBN 0-684-810204. $25. SCI Ferris is a journalist who has written several successful popular works about modern astronomy (e.g., [...]

Polner, Murray & Jim Basic Bks: HarperCollins. Jan. 1997. c.448p. illus. index. ISBN 0-465-03084X. $27.50. BIOG The brothers Berrigan were in the public eye most prominently in the late 1960s [...]