The Science Masters series is a

book series A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their pub ...

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. ...

. Books include: * '' The Origin of the Universe'' by John D. Barrow * '' The Last Three Minutes'' 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 Institu ...

* '' 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 William H. Calvin (born April 30, 1939) is an American theoretical neurophysiologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for popularizing neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of those ...

* '' 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 Profess ...

* '' Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution'' by

Lynn Margulis Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn M ...

* '' The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work'' by

Daniel Hillis William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. He founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a paralle ...

* '' 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 ''River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life'' is a 1995 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about Darwinian evolution and summarizes the topics covered in his earlier books, ''The Selfish Gene'', ''The Extended Phenotype'' an ...

'' 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 at ...

* '' Three Roads to Quantum Gravity'' by

Lee Smolin Lee Smolin (; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of th ...

* '' 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 taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His w ...

* '' Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality'' by

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books ''The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); '' Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Priz ...

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Words and Rules ''Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language'' is a 1999 popular linguistics book by Steven Pinker about regular and irregular verbs. "Words and rules" is a theory that has been predominantly developed by Pinker. It has been popularly contextua ...

'' by

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. P ...

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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory ''The Structure of Evolutionary Theory'' (2002) is Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's technical book on macroevolution and the historical development of evolutionary theory. The book was twenty years in the making, published just two mo ...

'' 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 s ...

* ''Beginning of Time'' by

George Smoot George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and the 2nd contestant to win the $1 million prize on '' Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?''. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

* '' 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 Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as th ...

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