The Flight of the Iguana
by David Quammen | 
Natural Acts
by David Quammen |
The Relativity of Wrong
by Isaac Asimov | 
The Medusa and the Snail
by Lewis Thomas | 
Dance for Two
by Alan Lightman | 
The Lives of a Cell
by Lewis Thomas | 
The Immense Journey
by Loren Eiseley | 
The Night Country
by Loren Eiseley | 
A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit
by Alan Lightman | 
Six Easy Pieces
by Richard P. Feynman | 
The Beauty of the Beastly
by Natalie Angier |
Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic
by Martin Gardner | 
Adding a Dimension
by Isaac Asimov |
Far As Human Eye Could See
by Isaac Asimov | 
The Planet That Wasn't
by Isaac Asimov | 
Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions
by Brian Hayes | 
Dreams of Earth and Sky
by Freeman Dyson | 
Future Science
by Max Brockman | 
Thinking In Numbers
by Daniel Tammet |
From Earth to Heaven
by Isaac Asimov |
Drawing from his long experience as a naturalist, the author responds to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of a wide spectrum of phenomena throughout the universe. Scrupulous scholarship and magical prose are brought to bear on such diverse topics as seeds, the hieroglyphs on shells, lost tombs, the goddess Circe, city dumps, and Neanderthal man.