Science Masters series

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.

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
 * Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Martin J. Rees
 * Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
 * 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
 * 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
 * Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
 * What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
 * 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
 * Beginning of Time by George Smoot
 * Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management by Stephen Budiansky
 * The Sixth Extinction Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin
 * Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Human Identity by Lawrence Wright