Ian Wilmut, Author, Roger Highfield, Author . Norton $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-393-06066-9
In 1997 the world was surprised to learn that scientists had cloned the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly. The lead scientist for the project, carried out at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, was Ian Wilmut, who in this engrossing book tells how he...
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Roger Highfield, Author . Viking $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-03153-5
British science writer Highfield (The Private Lives of Albert Einstein) takes on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series "to show how many elements of her books can be found in and explained by modern science." The result is an intelligent...
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Roger Highfield, Author, Paul Carter, With St. Martin's Press $23.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-312-11047-5
Highfield, science editor of Britain's Daily Telegraph , and Carter, an editor of the Daily Express , here examine aspects of the life of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) that fall short of his image as a secular saint. They point out that as a youth...
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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Roger Highfield. Basic, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5416-9906-9
Developmental biologist and Caltech professor Zernicka-Goetz brings significant credentials in embryology to her debut, an uneven but illuminating popular science work. Zernicka-Goetz, writing in the first person with Highfield (Super Cooperators,...
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