The Science Masters series is a
book series
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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 City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and his ...
.
Books include:
* ''
The Origin of the Universe'' by
John D. Barrow
John David Barrow (29 November 1952 – 26 September 2020) was an English physical cosmology, cosmologist, Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He served as Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2008 t ...
* ''
The Last Three Minutes
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'' by
Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute ...
* ''
The Origin of Humankind'' by
Richard Leakey
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife cons ...
* ''
How Brains Think'' by
William H. Calvin
* ''
The Periodic Kingdom'' by
P.W. Atkins
* ''
The Human Brain: A Guided Tour'' by
Susan Adele Greenfield
* ''
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe'' by