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 Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history. H ...

. Books include: * '' The Origin of the Universe'' by John D. Barrow * '' The Last Three Minutes'' by Paul Davies * '' The Origin of Humankind'' by Richard Leakey * '' How Brains Think'' by William H. Calvin * '' The Periodic Kingdom'' by P.W. Atkins * '' The Human Brain: A Guided Tour'' by

Susan Adele Greenfield Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, (born 1 October 1950) is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords (since 2001). Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's di ...

* '' Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe'' by

Martin J. Rees Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, ...

* ''

Kinds of Minds Kind or KIND may refer to: Concepts * Kindness, the human behaviour * Kind, a basic unit of categorization * Kind (type theory), a concept in logic and computer science * Natural kind, in philosophy * Created kind, often abbreviated to kinds, ...

'' by

Daniel C. Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relat ...

* '' Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose'' by Stephen H. Schneider * '' Nature's Numbers'' by Ian Stewart * '' One Renegade Cell: The Origins of Cancer'' by

Robert A. Weinberg Robert Allan Weinberg (born November 11, 1942) is a biologist, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT, and American Cancer Society Research Profes ...

* '' Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution'' by Lynn Margulis * '' The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work'' by Daniel Hillis * '' 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 Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...

* '' Three Roads to Quantum Gravity'' by Lee Smolin * '' What Evolution Is'' by

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

* '' Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality'' by Jared Diamond * '' Words and Rules'' by Steven Pinker * '' The Structure of Evolutionary Theory'' by

Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould sp ...

* ''Beginning of Time'' by George Smoot * '' Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management'' by

Stephen Budiansky Stephen Budiansky (born March 3, 1957) is an American chemist, writer, historian and biographer, best known for his books on animal behaviour and his criticism of animal rights. He is also the author of a number of scholarly publications about th ...

* ''The Sixth Extinction'' Richard E. Leakey and

Roger Lewin Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books. Career Lewin was a staff member of ''New Scientist'' in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for ''Science (journal), Science'' fo ...

* '' Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Human Identity'' by Lawrence Wright

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