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{{Short description|Popular science book series}}
The '''Scientific American Library''' is a [[book series]] of [[popular science]] written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by [[Scientific American]] from 1983 to 1997.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scientific American Library {{!}} LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/nseries/5975/Scientific-American-Library |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}</ref> These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a [[Book of the Month Club]] selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.librarything.com/nseries/5975/Scientific-American-Library | title=Scientific American Library | publisher=[[LibraryThing]] | access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref>
The '''Scientific American Library''' is a [[book series]] of [[popular science]] written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by [[Scientific American]] books from 1983 to 1997. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a [[Book of the Month Club]] selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.<ref>{{Cite web| title = FSG, 'Scientific American' Roll Out New Imprint| work = PublishersWeekly.com| access-date = 2017-12-10| url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/52025-fsg-scientific-american-roll-out-new-imprint.html}}</ref>


Books include:
Books include:
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* ''Sun and Earth'' by [[Herbert Friedman]]
* ''Sun and Earth'' by [[Herbert Friedman]]
* ''Einstein's Legacy'' by [[Julian Schwinger]]
* ''Einstein's Legacy'' by [[Julian Schwinger]]
* ''Islands'' by [[H. W. Menard]]
* ''Islands'' by [[Henry William Menard]]
* ''Drugs and the Brain'' by [[Solomon H. Snyder]]
* ''Drugs and the Brain'' by [[Solomon H. Snyder]]
* ''The Timing of Biological Clocks'' by [[Arthur T. Winfree]]
* ''The Timing of Biological Clocks'' by [[Arthur Winfree|Arthur T. Winfree]]
* ''Extinction'' by [[Steven M. Stanley]]
* ''Extinction'' by [[Steven M. Stanley]]
* ''Molecules'' by [[P. W. Atkins]]
* ''Eye, Brain, and Vision'' by [[David H. Hubel]]
* ''Science of Structures and Materials'' by [[J. E. Gordon]]
* ''Sand'' by {{ill|Raymond Siever|de}}
* ''The Honey Bee'' by [[James L. Gould]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Maione |first=Ian |date=September–October 1999 |title=The Honey Bee: By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. Scientific American Library, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-7167-6010-X. 239 pp. Paperback. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A55683973/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=570170e0 |magazine=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |volume=23 |issue=5 |page=52 |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515080039/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA55683973&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=570170e0 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Animal Navigation'' by [[Talbot H. Waterman]]
* ''Sleep'' by [[J. Allan Hobson]]
* ''From Quarks to the Cosmos'' by [[Leon M. Lederman]]
* ''Sexual Selection'' by [[James L. Gould]]
* ''The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya'' by [[Jerry Sabloff|Jeremy A. Sabloff]]
* ''A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime'' by [[John Archibald Wheeler]]
* ''The Science of Telecommunications'' by [[John Robinson Pierce]]
* ''Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions'' by [[Thomas F. Banchoff]]
* ''Discovering Enzymes'' by [[David Dressler]]
* ''The Science of Words'' by [[George Armitage Miller]]
* ''Atoms, Electrons, and Change'' by [[P. W. Atkins]]
* ''Viruses'' by [[Arnold J. Levine]]
* ''Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest'' by [[John Terborgh]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=Adrian G. |title=J. Terborgh 1992. Diversity and the tropical rain forest. Scientific American Library, W. H. Freeman, New York, xii + 242 pages. ISBN 140-3213-5026-0, (Hardback). - O. T. Solbrig, H. M. Van Emden & P. G. W. J. Van Oordt (Eds). 1992. Biodiversity and global change. Monograph No. 8, International Union of Biological Sciences, Paris, iv + 224 pages. ISBN 92-9046-0799, (Paperback). - V. Shiva et al.1991. Biodiversity: Social and ecological perspectives. World Rainforest Movement, Penang and Zed Books, London. 123 pages. Hardback: ISBN 1-85649-053-X; paperback: 1-85649-054-8 |journal=Journal of Tropical Ecology |date=August 1993 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=385–386 |doi=10.1017/S0266467400007458}}</ref>
* ''Stars'' by [[James B. Kaler]]<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 1993 |title=Stars, by James B. Kaler, (Scientific American Library, 1992), ISBN 0-7167-5033-3, 273 pages, hardcover, $24.95. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A13818477/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=967fb771 |magazine=[[Astronomy (magazine)|Astronomy]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=21 |issue=6 |page=93 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515074748/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA13818477&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=967fb771 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Exploring Biomechanics: Animals in Motion'' by [[R. McNeill Alexander]]
* ''Chemical Communication'' by [[William C. Agosta]]
* ''Genes and the Biology of Cancer'' by [[Harold Varmus]]
* ''Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science'' by {{ill|William J. Kaufmann III|it}}
* ''Molecules and Mental Illness'' by [[Samuel H. Barondes]]
* ''Exploring Planetary Worlds'' by [[David Morrison]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Pemberton |first=Heather |date=November 1993 |title=Exploring Planetary Worlds |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A14499558/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=3d45f7ca |magazine=CD-ROM Professional |publisher=[[Information Today]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=6 |issue=6 |page=221 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515074946/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA14499558&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=3d45f7ca |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=February 1994 |title=Exploring Planetary Worlds: David Morrison, (Scientific American Library, 1993), ISBN 0-7167-5043-0, 238 pages, hardcover, $24.95. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A14663454/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=52abb2f6 |magazine=[[Astronomy (magazine)|Astronomy]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=94 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515075124/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA14663454&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=52abb2f6 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Earthquakes and Geological Discovery'' by [[Bruce A. Bolt]]
* ''The Origin of Modern Humans'' by [[Roger Lewin]]
* ''The Evolving Coast'' by [[Richard A. Davis]]
* ''Life processes of plants'' by [[Arthur W. Galston]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Van Volkenburgh |first=Elizabeth |date=January 1996 |title=Life Processes of Plants |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A17942795/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=d63b0417 |journal=[[BioScience]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=46 |issue=1 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515073024/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA17942795&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=d63b0417 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Images of Mind'' by [[Michael I. Posner]]
* ''The Animal Mind'' by [[James L. Gould]]
* ''Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe'' by [[Keith Devlin]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rial |first=J.A. |date=July–August 1995 |title='The gate and the key of the sciences': Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Keith Devlin. 215 pp. Scientific American Library, 1994. $32.95. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A166995663/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=5e17ef98 |magazine=[[American Scientist]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=83 |issue=4 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515073213/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA166995663&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=5e17ef98 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''A Short History of the Universe'' by [[Joseph Silk]]<ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 1995 |title=A Short History of the Universe |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A16544085/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=bbf90cd4 |magazine=[[Astronomy (magazine)|Astronomy]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=23 |issue=4 |page=96 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515075236/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA16544085&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=bbf90cd4 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''The Emergence of Agriculture'' by [[Bruce D. Smith]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Van Epen |first=Karen |date=Winter 1995 |title=The Emergence of Agriculture: Bruce D. Smith. Scientific American Library, 1994; 231 pp. ISBN 0-7167-5055-4. $32.95 ($35.95 postpaid) |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A17922410/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=b2760a92 |magazine=[[Whole Earth Review]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |issue=88 |page=55 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515075653/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA17922410&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=b2760a92 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Atmosphere, Climate, and Change'' by [[T. E. Graedel]]
* ''Aging: A Natural History'' by [[Robert E. Ricklefs]]
* ''Investigating Disease Patterns: The Science of Epidemiology'' by [[Paul D. Stolley]]
* ''Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe'' by [[Mitchell Begelman]]
* ''Conservation and Biodiversity'' by {{ill|Andrew P. Dobson|de}}<ref>{{cite journal |last=Saterson |first=Kathryn A. |date=July 1998 |title=Conservation and Biodiversity: Andrew P. Dobson. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996. 264 pp., illus. $32.95 (ISBN 0-7167-5057-0 cloth). |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A54141352/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=6b60c11e |journal=[[BioScience]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=48 |issue=7 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515073418/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA54141352&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=6b60c11e |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany'' by [[Michael J. Balick]]
* ''Life at Small Scale: The Behavior of Microbes'' by [[David B. Dusenbery]]
* ''Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View'' by [[Roger Lewin]]
* ''Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere'' by [[Vaclav Smil]]
* ''Cosmic Clouds: Birth, Death, and Recycling in the Galaxy'' by [[James B. Kaler]]
* ''The Elusive Neutrino: A Subatomic Detective Story'' by [[Nickolas Solomey]]
* ''Lasers - Harnessing the Atoms Light'' by [[James P. Harbison]]
* ''Consciousness'' by [[J. Allan Hobson]]
* ''Evolving Brains'' by [[John Allman|John Morgan Allman]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Kreyche |first=Gerald F. |date=May 1999 |title=Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman / Scientific American Library, 1999, pp. 224, $34.95 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A54680910/STND?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=6d46e771 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515072226/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=STND&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA54680910&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-STND&asid=6d46e771 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Sejnowski |first=Terrence J. |date=1999-02-19 |title=Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman Scientific American Library, New York, 1999. 238 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-7167-5076-7. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A54710990/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=f8b5fc29 |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=283 |issue=5405 |page=1121 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515072516/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA54710990&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=f8b5fc29 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}</ref>
* ''Memory: From Mind to Molecules'' by [[Larry R. Squire]]
* ''Visual Computing'' by [[Richard Mark Friedhoff]]


==See also==
==See also==
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==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist|2}}


==External links==
==External links==

Latest revision as of 07:13, 23 May 2023

The Scientific American Library is a book series of popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by Scientific American books from 1983 to 1997. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a Book of the Month Club selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.[1]

Books include:

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "FSG, 'Scientific American' Roll Out New Imprint". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
  2. ^ Maione, Ian (September–October 1999). "The Honey Bee: By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. Scientific American Library, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-7167-6010-X. 239 pp. Paperback". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 23, no. 5. p. 52. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  3. ^ Marshall, Adrian G. (August 1993). "J. Terborgh 1992. Diversity and the tropical rain forest. Scientific American Library, W. H. Freeman, New York, xii + 242 pages. ISBN 140-3213-5026-0, (Hardback). - O. T. Solbrig, H. M. Van Emden & P. G. W. J. Van Oordt (Eds). 1992. Biodiversity and global change. Monograph No. 8, International Union of Biological Sciences, Paris, iv + 224 pages. ISBN 92-9046-0799, (Paperback). - V. Shiva et al.1991. Biodiversity: Social and ecological perspectives. World Rainforest Movement, Penang and Zed Books, London. 123 pages. Hardback: ISBN 1-85649-053-X; paperback: 1-85649-054-8". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 9 (3): 385–386. doi:10.1017/S0266467400007458.
  4. ^ "Stars, by James B. Kaler, (Scientific American Library, 1992), ISBN 0-7167-5033-3, 273 pages, hardcover, $24.95". Astronomy. Vol. 21, no. 6. June 1993. p. 93. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  5. ^ Pemberton, Heather (November 1993). "Exploring Planetary Worlds". CD-ROM Professional. Vol. 6, no. 6. Information Today. p. 221. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  6. ^ "Exploring Planetary Worlds: David Morrison, (Scientific American Library, 1993), ISBN 0-7167-5043-0, 238 pages, hardcover, $24.95". Astronomy. Vol. 22, no. 2. February 1994. p. 94. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  7. ^ Van Volkenburgh, Elizabeth (January 1996). "Life Processes of Plants". BioScience. 46 (1). Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  8. ^ Rial, J.A. (July–August 1995). "'The gate and the key of the sciences': Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Keith Devlin. 215 pp. Scientific American Library, 1994. $32.95". American Scientist. Vol. 83, no. 4. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  9. ^ "A Short History of the Universe". Astronomy. Vol. 23, no. 4. April 1995. p. 96. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  10. ^ Van Epen, Karen (Winter 1995). "The Emergence of Agriculture: Bruce D. Smith. Scientific American Library, 1994; 231 pp. ISBN 0-7167-5055-4. $32.95 ($35.95 postpaid)". Whole Earth Review. No. 88. p. 55. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  11. ^ Saterson, Kathryn A. (July 1998). "Conservation and Biodiversity: Andrew P. Dobson. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996. 264 pp., illus. $32.95 (ISBN 0-7167-5057-0 cloth)". BioScience. 48 (7). Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  12. ^ Kreyche, Gerald F. (May 1999). "Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman / Scientific American Library, 1999, pp. 224, $34.95". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.
  13. ^ Sejnowski, Terrence J. (1999-02-19). "Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman Scientific American Library, New York, 1999. 238 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-7167-5076-7". Science. 283 (5405): 1121. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via Gale.

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