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Aldersey-Williams, Hugh. The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Amato, Ivan. Stuff: The Materials the World is Made Of. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Applewhite, E. J. Paradise Mislaid: Birth, Death, and the Human Predicament of Being Biological. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Ball, Philip. Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Ball, Phillip. The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature. New York: Oxford, 1999.

Barrow, John D. The Artful Universe (Expanded). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Barrow, John D. Between Inner Space and Outer Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Barrow, John D. Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979.

Borgmann, Albert. Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Bowker, Geoffrey C. Memory Practices in the Sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Brockman, John, ed. My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.

Brockman, John, ed. The New Humanists: Science At the Edge. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.

Brockman, John. The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.

Casti, John L. Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science. New York: William Morrow, 1989.

Casti, John L. Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.

Casti, John L. Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990.

Casti, John L. and Anders Karlqvist, eds. Mission to Abisko: Stories and Myths in the Creation of Scientific "Truth". Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1999.

Close, Frank. Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Coveney, Peter and Roger Highfield. The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Though Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990.

Davies, Paul. The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Dawkins, Richard. A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections On Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Dawkins, Richard. Unweaving the Rainbow. London: Penguin Press, 1998.

Dyson, Freeman. Disturbing the Universe. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Gardner, James N. The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos. Franklin Lakes, New Jersey: New Page Books, 2007.

Gardner, James N. Biocosm -- The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life is the Architect of the Universe. Makawao, Maui, Hawaii: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2003.

Gawande, Atul, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2006. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Goldstein, Thomas. Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs to Leonardo da Vinci. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Gordin, Michael D. A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Gould, Stephen Jay. An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 1995.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. New York: Harmony Books, 1996.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. London: Jonathan Cape, 1996.

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities. New York: Harmony Books, 2003.

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 2000.

Kolata, Gina; and Jesse Cohen, eds. The Best American Science Writing 2007. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007.

Krauss, Lawrence M. Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth... and Beyond. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001.

Matsen, Brad. Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.

Matthews, Robert. 25 Big Ideas: The Science that's Changing our World. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2005.

Miller, Arthur I. Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Modis, Theodore, Ph.D. Predictions: Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Peat, F. David. The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Helix Books, 2000.

Polkinghorne, John. Beyond Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Poundstone, William. The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985.

Reeves, Hubert. Malicorne: Earthly Reflections of an Astrophysicist. Toronto: Stoddart, 1993.

Schwartz, Joseph. The Creative Moment: How Science Made Itself Alien to Modern Culture. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992.

Siegfried, Tom. The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory - The New Physics of Information. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Smolin, Lee. The Life of the Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Stewart, Ian and Martin Golubitsky. Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1992.

Thuan, Trinh Xuan. Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives On Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Turkle, Sherry. Falling for Science: Objects in Mind. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

Volk, Tyler. Metapatterns: Across Space, Time and Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Waltar, Alan E. Radiation and Modern Life: Fulfilling Marie Curie's Dream. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Watson, Lyall. Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.

Ziman, John. The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society. London: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

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