Forward into Fall: Science
Edited by Dick Donahue Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Liz Hartman, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek, Julie Stevenson and Michelle Wildge -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007
Abrams
America in Space: NASA’S First Fifty Years (Oct., $50), published in collaboration with NASA and with a foreword by Neil Armstrong, traces the history of America’s space exploration.
Bellevue Literary Press
Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution (Sept., $25) by David P. Barash explains what happens when evolutionary and cultural imperatives clash.
Columbia Univ. Press
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Food (Nov., $22.95) by Hervé This shares secrets for mastering the kitchen. 4-city author tour
Encounter Books
Confessions of a Climate Scientist: Cures for Global Warming Mass Hysteria (Jan., $25.95) by Roy Spencer takes a satirical look at the response to global warming.
Firefly Books
Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20X to 22 MillionX Magnification (Sept., $29.95) by Brandon Broll explores everyday life at its tiniest in more than 200 color images.
Houghton Mifflin
Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Nov., $24) by Jonah Lehrer looks at how several artists, including Proust and Cézanne, anticipated scientific discoveries about the mind. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Mit Press
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA (Nov., $26.95) by Catherine Brady focuses on Blackburn’s life and work and the emergence of a new field of research on chromosomes.
National Geographic Books
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep (Oct., $30) by Michael Everhart serves as a companion volume to National Geographic’s upcoming 3-D film.
W.W. Norton
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Nov., $23.95) by Richard Reeves presents a biography of the man who first split the atom.
The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Jan., $25.95) by Anne Harrington explains how personal attitudes allow people to make sense of their suffering and rationalize new treatments. A Norton Book for Psychotherapists.
Pantheon
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Feb., $24) by Neil Shubin takes us on an organ-by-organ journey through the human body to explain why we look the way we do.
Prometheus Books
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (Oct., $28.95) by Barbara A. Oakley links molecular and genetic discoveries with seemingly unrelated phenomena to argue that “evil” people are programmed genetically.
Running Press
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Works of Albert Einstein (Oct., $29.95), edited and with commentary by Stephen Hawking, collects Einstein’s most important works. 75,000 first printing.
Univ. of Virginia Press
A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (Sept., $21.95) by Freeman J. Dyson emphasizes the myriad ways in which the universe presents itself to us and how we respond to it.
Viking
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Sept., $29.95) by Steven Pinker uses examples from everyday life to explain how words explain our nature, our relationship to society and more. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.
Zone Books
Objectivity (Sept., $38.95) by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison charts the emergence of objectivity in the mid-19th century as revealed through images in scientific atlases.
