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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011: The Best American Series

by Mary Roach & Tim Folger

Popular columnist and science writer Mary Roach selects the year's best science and nature writing.

The Trouble with Science

by Professor Robin Dunbar

The 'trouble' with science began in 1632, when Galileo demolished the belief that the earth is the centre of the universe. Yet despite the bewildering success of the scientific revolution, many continue to hanker...

When Science Goes Wrong

by Simon LeVay

Brilliant scientific successes have helped shape our world, and are always celebrated. However, for every victory, there are no doubt numerous little-known blunders. Neuroscientist Simon LeVay brings together...

Darwin's Great Idea and Why It Matters

by James Bradley

This volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), deals with society's continuing struggle with biological evolution. James Bradley writes for would-be...

(R)evolution of Man, Pinocchio

by Giovanna Summerfield

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Giovanna Summerfield offers a refreshing respite from science and the history of science. Charles Darwin...

Evolution and Embryology

by Kenneth Halanych

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Kenneth Halanych describes Darwin's debt to the studies of 19th century German embryologists, particularly...

The Evolution of Comparative Psychology

by Jeffrey Katz, Kelly Schmidtke & John Magnotti

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), comparative psychologists Jeffrey Katz and his co-authors acknowledge Charles Darwin as the most important...

Darwin's Legacy in Psychology

by Lewis Barker

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Lewis Barker chronicles Darwin's legacy in psychology. Barker describes the pre-Darwinian philosophical...

Darwin and the Origin of Life

by Anthony Moss

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Anthony Moss contributes a thorough historical account of science's attempt to answer the question...

Human Evolution

by Shawn Jacobsen

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Shawn Jacobson uses the huge corpus of knowledge about human evolution and uniqueness accumulated since...

Sexual Selection

by Debbie Folkerts

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Debbie Folkerts tackles the controversial topic of sexual selection, competition between members of...

Darwin, Wallace, and Malthus

by Gerard Elfstrom

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Gerard Elfstrom describes the influence that the writing of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), British...

Darwin and Social Darwinism

by Guy Beckwith

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Guy Beckwith compares the impact of Darwin's ideas on humankind to that of the Copernican Revolution....

The "Alabama Insert"

by Richard Dawkins

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), public educator, author, and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, with characteristic clarity and...

Darwin and Collections

by Jonathan Armbruster

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Jon Armbruster writes about the grand age of Natural History (late 1700s to about 1900), how it helped...

Darwin as a Geologist

by David King

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), David King documents Darwin's training in geology and his little-known accomplishments as a geologist....

Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy

by James Bradley, Richard Dawkins & Jay Lamar

Charles Darwin (1809-82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is an anthology of...

Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World

by Randy Alfred

365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine.

On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S....

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

by Dan Ariely & Tim Folger

Best-selling author and irrationality advocate Dan Ariely selects the year's best science and nature writing.

The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change

by Paul Andrew Mayewski, Frank White & Lynn Margulis

An exciting account of revolutionary new discoveries for understanding the earth's climate, and their implications for future scientific research and global environmental policy.