The Science Masters series is a book series
of short, non-mathematical books for a general
audience
written by scientists known for their popular
writings.
It was created by the literary agent John
Brockman in the 1990s, and originally published
by Basic Books.Books include:
How Brains Think by William H. Calvin
The Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Adele
Greenfield
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape
the Universe by Martin J. Rees
Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We
Can't Afford to Lose by Stephen H. Schneider
The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies
Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature
Management by Stephen Budiansky
Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart
One Renegade Cell: The Origins of Cancer by
Robert A. Weinberg
The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey
The Origin of the Universe by John D. Barrow
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas
That Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis
The Periodic Kingdom by P.W. Atkins
The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan
and Purpose in Nature by George C. Williams
(in England as Plan and Purpose In Nature)
River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
The Sixth Extinction Richard E. Leakey and
Roger Lewin
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery
of Human Identity by Lawrence Wright
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
Why Is Sex Fun?
The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared
Diamond
Words and Rules by Steven Pinker
