Helen M. Rozwadowski

"Fathoming the Ocean by Helen Rozwadowski chronicles the birth of deep-sea oceanography, from early observations by Benjamin Franklin to the voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s. She weaves a rich narrative from the world of renowned as well as lesser-known oceanographers. While unearthing the foundations of the subject, she reveals some striking parallels with modern research careers."
‹Jon Copley, Nature

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Michael Ruse

"No philosopher of science has exerted a greater practical influence‹or written more volumes‹on the creation-evolution debates than the irrepressible Michael Ruse. This thoughtful, opinionated book gives the literate public a welcome chance to meet the master."
‹Ron Numbers

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Alan Walker, Pat Shipman

"Proconsul lays claim to being the best known ape in the fossil record and Alan Walker and Pat Shipman tell the story of this prized fossil superbly well. Wonderfully engaging and insightful, The Ape in the Tree is sure to become a classic in the literature on human origins."
‹Roger Lewin, author of Principles of Human Evolution

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Gerald Holton

"Gerald Holton has moved as no one else in our time from a truly distinguished life in science to the effect of manners, morals, and much else in the world, on scientific discovery. This is a most engaging book and an indispensable guide."
‹John Kenneth Galbraith

"Gerald Holton is the dean of Einstein scholars."
‹Dennis Overbye, New York Times

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Judith A. Houck

"Drawing on medical literature, the popular press, and women's accounts from the 1890s to the 1980s, this beautifully written book examines menopause as both cultural construct and physiological transition. Judith Houck provides a nuanced discussion of menopause in relation to medical theory, clinical practice, women's demands, and husbands' responsesŠHot and Bothered makes an important contribution to women's history, the history of the body, and the history of aging."
‹Susan L. Smith, University of Alberta in Canada

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Kenneth W. Ford

The laws governing the very small and very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Kenneth Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious.

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John S. Rigden

"A century ago, in 1905, Einstein proved that time, as it had been understood by scientist and layman like, was a fiction. And this was scarcely his only achievement that year, which John S. Rigden skillfully chronicles, month by month, in Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness."
‹Jim Holt, New Yorker

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Michael Ruse

"This has to be the best of Ruse's many books, and it is hard to imagine how a better one could be written on this subject. With an understanding erudition spiced with good-natured wit and occasional sly ribaldry, Ruse moves easily and assuredly among biology, philosophy, history, and theology."
‹Robert T. Pennock, Science

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John S. Rigden

"Readers will particularly benefit from seeing extremely important practical technologies that the original experimenters may never have dreamed of. For a picture of how physics really progresses‹with gritty details filled in, along with ingenious experiments and glimpses of physicists who push the forefronts of knowledge‹Rigden's brief ode to hydrogen is a refreshing alternative to some of the speculative musings dominating the physics sections of bookstores."
‹Lawrence M. Krauss, New York Times Book Review

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Sunny Y. Auyang

Genetic engineering, nanotechnology, astrophysics, particle physics: We live in an engineered world, one where the distinctions between science and engineering, technology and research, are fast disappearing. This book shows how, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the goals of natural scientists‹to discover what was not known’and that of engineers‹to create what did not exist‹are undergoing an unprecedented convergence.

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