Scientific American Library

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 * ''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 * ''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 * ''The Honey Bee'' by James L. Gould * ''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 * ''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 Provided by Wikipedia