Scientific American Library

Popular science book series

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.^[1]

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 Stefan Hildebrandt [de]
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 Raymond Siever [de]
The Honey Bee by James L. Gould^[2]
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^[3]
Stars by James B. Kaler^[4]
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 William J. Kaufmann III [it]
Molecules and Mental Illness by Samuel H. Barondes
Exploring Planetary Worlds by David Morrison^[5]^[6]
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^[7]
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^[8]
A Short History of the Universe by Joseph Silk^[9]
The Emergence of Agriculture by Bruce D. Smith^[10]
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 Andrew P. Dobson [de]^[11]
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^[12]^[13]
Memory: From Mind to Molecules by Larry R. Squire
Visual Computing by Richard Mark Friedhoff

References

^ "FSG, 'Scientific American' Roll Out New Imprint". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
^ Maione, Ian (September–October 1999). "The Honey Bee: By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. Scientific American Library, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-7167-6010-X. 239 pp. Paperback". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 23, no. 5. p. 52. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Marshall, Adrian G. (August 1993). "J. Terborgh 1992. Diversity and the tropical rain forest. Scientific American Library, W. H. Freeman, New York, xii + 242 pages. ISBN 140-3213-5026-0, (Hardback). - O. T. Solbrig, H. M. Van Emden & P. G. W. J. Van Oordt (Eds). 1992. Biodiversity and global change. Monograph No. 8, International Union of Biological Sciences, Paris, iv + 224 pages. ISBN 92-9046-0799, (Paperback). - V. Shiva et al.1991. Biodiversity: Social and ecological perspectives. World Rainforest Movement, Penang and Zed Books, London. 123 pages. Hardback: ISBN 1-85649-053-X; paperback: 1-85649-054-8". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 9 (3): 385–386. doi:10.1017/S0266467400007458.
^ "Stars, by James B. Kaler, (Scientific American Library, 1992), ISBN 0-7167-5033-3, 273 pages, hardcover, $24.95". Astronomy. Vol. 21, no. 6. June 1993. p. 93. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Pemberton, Heather (November 1993). "Exploring Planetary Worlds". CD-ROM Professional. Vol. 6, no. 6. Information Today. p. 221. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ "Exploring Planetary Worlds: David Morrison, (Scientific American Library, 1993), ISBN 0-7167-5043-0, 238 pages, hardcover, $24.95". Astronomy. Vol. 22, no. 2. February 1994. p. 94. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Van Volkenburgh, Elizabeth (January 1996). "Life Processes of Plants". BioScience. 46 (1). Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Rial, J.A. (July–August 1995). "'The gate and the key of the sciences': Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Keith Devlin. 215 pp. Scientific American Library, 1994. $32.95". American Scientist. Vol. 83, no. 4. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ "A Short History of the Universe". Astronomy. Vol. 23, no. 4. April 1995. p. 96. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Van Epen, Karen (Winter 1995). "The Emergence of Agriculture: Bruce D. Smith. Scientific American Library, 1994; 231 pp. ISBN 0-7167-5055-4. $32.95 ($35.95 postpaid)". Whole Earth Review. No. 88. p. 55. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Saterson, Kathryn A. (July 1998). "Conservation and Biodiversity: Andrew P. Dobson. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996. 264 pp., illus. $32.95 (ISBN 0-7167-5057-0 cloth)". BioScience. 48 (7). Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Kreyche, Gerald F. (May 1999). "Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman / Scientific American Library, 1999, pp. 224, $34.95". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
^ Sejnowski, Terrence J. (1999-02-19). "Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman Scientific American Library, New York, 1999. 238 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-7167-5076-7". Science. 283 (5405): 1121. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.