- Listed
- Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act
- “Read[s] like dispatches from a war reporter in the midst of battle… Listed takes an idiosyncratic approach to the [Endangered Species Act], using it as an entry to many issues and controversies in conservation. Roman is an engaging author, and readers will enjoy the book. They will also come away having gained a deeper understanding of the Act, along with a plethora of interesting facts about listed species.”
—Daniel Simberloff, American Scientist
- 101 Quantum Questions
- What You Need to Know About the World You Can’t See
- “Kenneth Ford’s question-and-answer-style guide to the weirdness of the quantum realm is a clear and handy reference. Ford’s easy-going prose will help you feel right at home at nature’s tiniest and most counterintuitive scale.”
—Amanda Gefter, New Scientist
“By using humor and straight talk to answer questions that often bedevil the non-scientist who attempts to grasp this knotty subject, Ford has created an entertaining read and an excellent companion piece to more detailed popular treatments of modern physics.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
- The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System
- “As may be deduced from the title, this book would be of immediate interest to younger readers and their attention would easily be maintained by the tone and clarity of the writing. That said, more seasoned readers will also find it a fascinating look at the Solar System around us and will no doubt broaden their knowledge. I fully recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Solar System and how much of a hostile, humbling and amazing place it is to exist.”
—David Powell, Astronomy Now
- Duel at Dawn
- Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
- “Through the life stories of three of the period’s most controversial figures, Evariste Galois, Niels Henrik Abel and Janos Bolyai, Alexander reveals how their transgressive work changed mathematics and led to their lionization as Romantic heroes… Mathematics need not be a scary, daunting subject, and Alexander does much to prove it.”
—Michael Patrick Brady, Forbes
“This is a fascinating and provocative book. It is also extremely readable: the accounts of Galois, Abel, Cauchy and Bolyai…are engaging and entertaining, and along the way we meet many other fascinating personalities, including Guglielmo Libri, the aristocratic revolutionary, mathematician and stealer of rare books. Alexander’s arguments are illuminating.”
—Tony Mann, Times Higher Education
- The Annotated Origin
- A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
- “The Annotated Origin is a culminating and, in an original manner of its own, the most useful of the centennial Darwin publications. It gives you the choice of reading page by page the original Origin, or its modern interpretation, or both together.”
—Edward O. Wilson
“Clearly worth attention… Costa makes use of his experience as a field naturalist and his knowledge of the modern literature of evolutionary biology to illumine many passages in Darwin’s work.”
—Richard C. Lewontin, The New York Review of Books
- Living at Micro Scale
- The Unexpected Physics of Being Small
- “David Dusenbery’s book Living at Micro Scale does an excellent job of explaining the physics that is relevant at this scale and, later in the book, how this physics affects the behavior of microorganisms… The book will be accessible and useful to a wide audience of people interested in biology, physics or engineering. And the provocative questions presented are sure to be the subject of intense activity in the research community for years to come.”
—Thomas R. Powers, American Scientist
- Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
- “As a collection, these myth-busting arguments work to soften the wedge responsible for the schism between science and religion. The topics and writing style will appeal to all readers, but students of science and religion should consider this essential reading.”
—J.A. Hewlett, Choice
“Informative and thought-provoking reading.”
—Ernan McMullin, The Tablet
- 100 Butterflies and Moths
- Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica
- “100 Butterflies and Moths presents portraits of some of the 10,000 species estimated to inhabit the Guanacaste conservation area in northwestern Costa Rica. The photographs, taken by Jeffrey Miller, and the accompanying, informative descriptions could serve as a field guide for a visit to the Costa Rican forest or be equally appealing to the armchair naturalist.”
—Nature
- 100 Caterpillars
- Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica
- “I opened the book and fell headlong into a world of unbelievable creatures… Leaf through the large-format photographs in 100 Caterpillars and you’ll see all the latest in caterpillar-wear from the mountains and forests of Costa Rica. We’re talking pine-needle coats, detachable red tails, and fake orange eyes. That is, if you can find the caterpillars. Consider the incredibly cryptic Narope, completely indistinguishable from a papery sheath of bamboo, or Archaeoprepona meander, twin to a torn leaf… What’s not to love?”
—Ketzel Levine, NPR Books blog
- No Small Matter
- Science on the Nanoscale
- “Reorienting our eye to the nanoscale is No Small Matter. This coffee-table book juxtaposes images and ideas to encapsulate the significance of size and shape… Exploring where art meets science, the authors search for promising paths to make small-scale science more intuitive… Frankel and Whiteside’s book adds gravitas and nuance to the popularization of nanotechnology, articulating its interest and vast opportunities.”—Jeremy Baumberg, Nature
“No Small Matter conveys science on the nanoscale through a remarkable series of photographs… This is a brilliant book that will help a wide readership to appreciate the wonders of the very small.”
—Andrew Briggs, The Times Higher Education
