NEWTITLES INSCIENCE

2015–2016

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Basic Author Highlights   1 2

Backlist Highlights   1 5

Title Index   2 0

Author Index   2 1

Contact Information   2 2

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The Magic of MathSolving for x and Figuring Out WhyARTHUR BENJAMIN

“Arthur Benjamin shows you that numbers do more than just keep track of things and solve problems. He joyfully shows you how to make nature’s numbers dance. Let his book be your partner for a lifetime of learning.”

—Bill Nye, science educator and CEO,The Planetary Society

978-0-465-05472-5 • $26.99 / $33.99 (Can.) • 336 pp. • September 2015

The Perfect BetHow Science and Math Are Taking the LuckOut of GamblingADAM KUCHARSKI

From roulette tables to racetracks, a fascinating look at how science and math advance by taking Lady Luck down a peg.

978-0-465-05595-1 • $26.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 288 pp. • February 2016

Burn Math ClassAnd Reinvent Mathematics for YourselfJASON WILKES

A manifesto for a mathematical revolution.

978-0-465-05373-5 • $29.99 / $38.99 (Can.) • 416 pp. • March 2016

F R O M B A S I C B O O K S

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FlukeThe Math and Myth of CoincidenceJOSEPH MAZUR

A mathematical guide to understanding why life can seem to be one big coincidence—and why the odds of just about everything are better than we think.

978-0-465-06095-5 • $26.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 288 pp. • March 2016

Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s CatHow Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of PhysicsPAUL HALPERN

“A fascinating and thought-provoking story, one that sheds light on the origins of some aspects of the current challenging situation in physics.”

—Wall Street Journal

978-0-465-07571-3 • $27.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 288 pp. • April 2015

The Jazz of PhysicsThe Secret Link Between Music and the Structureof the UniverseSTEPHON ALEXANDER

A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics.

978-0-465-03499-4 • $27.99 / $36.50 (Can.) • 288 pp. • April 2016

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Why Information GrowsThe Evolution of Order, from Atoms to EconomiesCÉSAR HIDALGO

“Mr. Hidalgo succeeds brilliantly in bringing his complex subject to life. His book is full of nuggets, from memorable phrases to interesting metaphors.” —Economist

978-0-465-04899-1 • $26.99 / $33.99 (Can.) • 256 pp. • June 2015

A Crude Look at the WholeThe Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life,and SocietyJOHN H. MILLER

“With clear, elegant prose and captivating examples, John Miller reveals the core transcendent ideas from complexity theory that connect the biological, social, and physical worlds.... A remarkable achievement.”

—Scott Page, Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University

of Michigan, and author of The Difference

978-0-465-05569-2 • $29.99 / $38.99 (Can.) • 272 pp. • January 2016

The Master AlgorithmHow the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our WorldPEDRO DOMINGOS

“The holy grail of computer science is a machine that can teach itself, as we humans do, from experience. Machine learning could help us do everything from curing cancer to building humanoid robots. Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be.” —Walter Isaacson,

author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators

978-0-465-06570-7 • $29.99 / $37.50 (Can.) • 352 pp. • September 2015

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BiblioTechWhy Libraries Matter More Than Ever in theAge of GoogleJOHN PALFREY

“Anyone interested in the future of libraries—and whether there is one at all—will find much to mull over in this book.” —Nature

978-0-465-04299-9 • $26.99 / $33.99 (Can.) • 288 pp. • May 2015

A Dangerous MasterHow to Keep Technology from SlippingBeyond Our ControlWENDELL WALLACH

“Neither alarmist nor affirmative, [A Dangerous Master] contains urgent, compelling and relevant calls to consciously embed our values in the systems we design, and to critically engage with our choices.” —New Scientist

978-0-465-05862-4 • $28.99 / $36.50 (Can.) • 336 pp. • June 2015

MonstersThe Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological TechnologyED REGIS

“As readable and entertaining as a high-octane spy thriller and as informative as a semesters’ worth of graduate-level seminars. Regis is a gifted writer with empathy for his subjects, even if they do sound bonkers.”

—Library Journal

978-0-465-06594-3 • $29.99 / $37.50 (Can.) • 352 pp. • September 2015

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We Have the TechnologyHow Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception,One Sense at a TimeKARA PLATONI

“Deeply reported and deftly told, We Have the Technology draws back the curtain on a brave new world in which being a hacker means hacking oneself.”

—Joshua Davis, author of Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the

Battle for the American Dream

978-0-465-08997-0 • $27.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 304 pp. • December 2015

First BiteHow We Learn to EatBEE WILSON

“Bee Wilson is the ultimate food scholar. First Bite is a brilliant study of how we form our food preferences and how we may be able to change them. Her narrative kept me hungry for more until the very end.”

—Yotam Ottolenghi, chef and food writer

978-0-465-06498-4 • $27.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 352 pp. • December 2015

The Meaning of ScienceAn Introduction to the Philosophy of ScienceTIM LEWENS

“There is no better, clearer case for why both science and philosophy matter and why neither can replace the other.” —Guardian

978-0-465-09748-7 • $26.99 • 272 pp. • January 2016

F R O M B A S I C B O O K S

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Bad FaithWhen Religious Belief Undermines Modern MedicinePAUL A. OFFIT, M.D.

“Paul Offit…is one of the most courageous and sober voices arguing to protect children from exemptions made by their parents.”

—New York Review of Books

978-0-465-08296-4 • $27.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 272 pp. • March 2015

Adventures in Human BeingA Grand Tour from the Cranium to the CalcaneumGAVIN FRANCIS

“Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart.”

—Wall Street Journal

978-0-465-07968-1 • $26.99 / $33.99 (Can.) • 272 pp. • October 2015

Snowball in a BlizzardA Physician’s Notes on Uncertainty in MedicineSTEVEN HATCH

A physician argues that medicine is uncertain, and shows us how we can use this uncertainty to our advantage.

978-0-465-05064-2 • $27.99 / $36.50 (Can.) • 312 pp. • February 2016

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Life’s Greatest SecretThe Race to Crack the Genetic CodeMATTHEW COBB

“The cracking of the code of life is a great story, of which this is an accomplished telling”

—Economist

978-0-465-06267-6 • $29.99 / $37.50 (Can.) • 464 pp. • July 2015

HomeHow Habitat Made Us HumanJOHN S. ALLEN

“A fascinating exploration of the idea of home and of its meaning in the making of humanity.”

—Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and author of Self Comes to Mind

978-0-465-03899-2 • $28.99 / $37.50 (Can.) • 304 pp. • December 2015

Political AnimalsHow Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Wayof Smart PoliticsRICK SHENKMAN

“In Political Animals, historian Rick Shenkman makes excellent use of the latest research in behavioral sciences to indicate why we Americans so often fail politically. And in highly readable prose he also provides wise advice on how we can do better.”

—Walter G. Moss, Professor Emeritus of History, Eastern Michigan University

978-0-465-03300-3 • $26.99 / $34.99 (Can.) • 336 pp. • January 2016

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Restless CreaturesThe Story of Life in Ten MovementsMATT WILKINSON

From flying pterodactyls to walking primates, the story of life as told through the evolution of locomotion.

978-0-465-06572-1 • $28.99 / $37.50 (Can.) • 320 pp. • February 2016

The Good Book of Human NatureAn Evolutionary Reading of the BibleCAREL VAN SCHAIK and KAI MICHEL

How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth.

978-0-465-07470-9 • $29.99 / $38.99 (Can.) • 400 pp. • May 2016

Coyote AmericaA Natural and Supernatural HistoryDAN FLORES

A natural history of the coyote—whose success story and adaptability mirror humanity’s own.

978-0-465-05299-8 • $27.99 / $36.50 (Can.) • 272 pp. • June 2016

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Cat SenseJohn Bradshaw

Sept. 2014 | $16.99978-0-465-06496-0

Dog SenseJohn Bradshaw

Sept. 2014 | $16.99978-0-465-05374-2

How to Bake PiEugenia Cheng

May 2016 | $15.99978-0-465-09767-8

Rise of the RobotsMartin Ford

May 2016 | $16.99978-0-465-09753-1

Love and MathEdward Frenkel

Sept. 2014 | $16.99978-0-465-06495-3

The Island of KnowledgeMarcelo Gleiser

Oct. 2015 | $17.99978-0-465-04964-6

The Triumph of SeedsThor Hanson

March 2016 | $15.99978-0-465-09740-1

The Pattern on the StoneW. Daniel Hillis

Feb. 2015 | $15.99978-0-465-06693-3

F R O M B A S I C B O O K S

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The End of ScienceWith a new preface

John HorganApril 2015 | $17.99978-0-465-06592-9

CuriousIan Leslie

Dec. 2015 | $15.99978-0-465-09762-3

Neanderthal ManSvante Pääbo

March 2015 | $16.99978-0-465-05495-4

Born DigitalRevised & Expanded

John Palfrey and Urs GasserJuly 2016 | $17.99

978-0-465-05392-6

Words and RulesSteven Pinker

July 2015 | $17.99978-0-465-07270-5

The Patient Will See You NowEric Topol

May 2016 | $17.99978-0-465-04002-5

Creatures of a DayIrvin D. Yalom

March 2016 | $15.99978-0-465-09743-2

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R I C H A R D P. F E Y N M A NBasic author highlights

Now available as e-booksThe Feynman Lectures on PhysicsThe New Millennium Edition

vol 1 | 978-0-465-02493-3 (pb) | 978-0-465-04085-8 (e-book)vol 2 | 978-0-465-02494-0 (pb) | 978-0-465-04084-1 (e-book)vol 3 | 978-0-465-02501-5 (pb) | 978-0-465-04083-4 (e-book)3 volume set | 978-0-465-02382-0 (hc)

Feynman’s Tips on Physics978-0-465-02797-2

Also availableExercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics978-0-465-06071-9

The Meaning of It All978-0-465-02394-3

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track978-0-465-02371-4

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

978-0-465-02395-0

Six Easy Pieces978-0-465-02527-5

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces978-0-465-02526-8

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D O U G L A S R . H O F S TA D T E RBasic author highlights

Gödel, Escher, Bach978-0-465-02656-2

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

978-0-465-02475-9

I Am a Strange Loop978-0-465-03079-8

Metamagical Themas978-0-465-04566-2

The Mind’s I978-0-465-03091-0

Surfaces and Essences978-0-465-01847-5

That Mad Ache978-0-465-01098-1

Le Ton Beau de Marot978-0-465-08645-0

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I A N S T E WA R TBasic author highlights

Flatterland978-0-7382-0675-2

In Pursuit of the Unknown978-0-465-08598-9

Letters to a Young Mathematician978-0-465-08232-2

Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

978-0-465-01302-9

Professor Stewart’s Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

978-0-465-05497-8

Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

978-0-465-01775-1

Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers978-0-465-04272-2

Visions of Infinity978-0-465-06489-2

Why Beauty Is Truth978-0-465-08237-7

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B A S I C B A C K L I S T

LinkedAlbert-László Barabási

978-0-465-08573-6

The Science of EvilSimon Baron-Cohen978-0-465-03142-9

The Evolution of DesireDavid M. Buss

978-0-465-00802-5

RegenesisGeorge Church & Ed Regis

978-0-465-07570-6

The 10,000 Year ExplosionGregory Cochran

& Henry Harpending978-0-465-02042-3

River Out of EdenRichard Dawkins

978-0-465-06990-3

The Logic of FailureDietrich Dorner

978-0-201-47948-5

Darwin among the MachinesGeorge Dyson

978-0-465-03162-7

The Little Ice AgeBrian Fagan

978-0-465-02272-4

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highlights from the

The Long SummerBrian Fagan

978-0-465-02282-3

Rock, Paper, ScissorsLen Fisher

978-0-465-00938-1

SnoopSam Gosling, Ph.D.

978-0-465-01382-1

Free to LearnPeter Gray

978-0-465-08499-9

FeathersThor Hanson

978-0-465-02878-8

The TellMatthew Hertenstein978-0-465-03659-2

Supersymmetry and BeyondGordon Kane

978-0-465-08297-1

UngiftedScott Barry Kaufman978-0-465-06696-4

The Emperor’s New DrugsIrving Kirsch, Ph.D.978-0-465-02200-7

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B A S I C B A C K L I S T

Fear of PhysicsLawrence M. Krauss978-0-465-00218-4

Summer for the GodsEdward J. Larson

978-0-465-07510-2

The Misbehavior of MarketsBenoit Mandelbrot

& Richard L. Hudson978-0-465-04357-6

Advice to a Young ScientistP. B. Medawar

978-0-465-00092-0

The Ego TunnelThomas Metzinger

978-0-465-02069-0

Unscientific AmericaChris Mooney

& Sheril Kirshenbaum978-0-465-01917-5

The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman

978-0-465-05065-9

Deadly ChoicesPaul A. Offit, M.D.

978-0-465-05796-2

EurekaChad Orzel

978-0-465-07496-9

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highlights from the

How to Teach Relativityto Your DogChad Orzel

978-0-465-02331-8

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

John Allen Paulos978-0-465-08999-4

The Möbius StripClifford Pickover

978-1-56025-952-7

MassiveIan Sample

978-0-465-05873-0

BrainwashedSally Satel

& Scott O. Lilienfeld978-0-465-06291-1

Quantum MechanicsLeonard Susskind

& Art Friedman978-0-465-06290-4

The Theoretical MinimumLeonard Susskind

& George Hrabovsky978-0-465-07568-3

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

Eric Topol, M.D.978-0-465-06183-9

The Folly of FoolsRobert Trivers

978-0-465-08597-2

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B A S I C B A C K L I S T

Alone TogetherSherry Turkle

978-0-465-03146-7

Probably Approximately CorrectLeslie Valiant

978-0-465-06072-6

The First Three MinutesSteven Weinberg

978-0-465-02437-7

One Renegade CellRobert A. Weinberg978-0-465-07276-7

Too Big to KnowDavid Weinberger

978-0-465-08596-5

A Mood ApartPeter C. Whybrow, M.D.

978-0-465-06484-7

The Lightness of BeingFrank Wilczek

978-0-465-01895-6

The Shape of Inner SpaceShing-Tung Yau& Steve Nadis

978-0-465-02837-5

A World Without TimePalle Yourgrau

978-0-465-09294-9

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T I T L E I N D E X

The 10,000 Year Explosion, 15

AAdventures in Human Being, 7Advice to a Young Scientist, 17Alone Together, 19

BBad Faith, 7BiblioTech, 5Born Digital, 11Brainwashed, 18Burn Math Class, 2

CCat Sense, 10Coyote America, 9The Creative Destruction of Medicine, 18Creatures of a Day, 11A Crude Look at the Whole, 4Curious, 11

DA Dangerous Master, 5Darwin among the Machines, 15Deadly Choices, 17The Design of Everyday Things, 17Dog Sense, 10

EThe Ego Tunnel, 17Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat, 3The Emperor’s New Drugs, 16The End of Science, 11Eureka, 17The Evolution of Desire, 15Exercises for the Feynman Lectures

on Physics, 12

FFear of Physics, 17Feathers, 16The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 12Feynman’s Tips on Physics, 12First Bite, 6The First Three Minutes, 19Flatterland, 14Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, 13Fluke, 3The Folly of Fools, 18Free to Learn, 16

GGödel, Escher, Bach, 13The Good Book of Human Nature, 9

HHome, 8How to Bake Pi, 10How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, 18

II Am a Strange Loop, 13In Pursuit of the Unknown, 14The Island of Knowledge, 10

JThe Jazz of Physics, 3

LLetters to a Young Mathematician, 14Life’s Greatest Secret, 8The Lightness of Being, 19Linked, 15The Little Ice Age, 15The Logic of Failure, 15The Long Summer, 16Love and Math, 10

MThe Magic of Math, 2Massive, 18The Master Algorithm, 4A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, 18The Meaning of It All, 12The Meaning of Science, 6Metamagical Themas, 13The Mind’s I, 13The Misbehavior of Markets, 17The Möbius Strip, 18Monsters, 5A Mood Apart, 19

NNeanderthal Man, 11

OOne Renegade Cell, 19

PThe Patient Will See You Now, 11The Pattern on the Stone, 10The Perfect Bet, 2Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the

Beaten Track, 12The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 12Political Animals, 8Probably Approximately Correct, 19Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical

Curiosities, 14Professor Stewart’s Casebook of

Mathematical Mysteries, 14Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical

Treasures, 14Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers, 14

QQuantum Mechanics, 18

RRegenesis, 15Restless Creatures, 9Rise of the Robots, 10River Out of Eden, 15Rock, Paper, Scissors, 16

SThe Science of Evil, 15The Shape of Inner Space, 19Six Easy Pieces, 12Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, 12Snoop, 16Snowball in a Blizzard, 7Summer for the Gods, 17Supersymmetry and Beyond, 16Surfaces and Essences, 13

TThe Tell, 16That Mad Ache, 13The Theoretical Minimum, 18Le Ton Beau de Marot, 13Too Big to Know, 19The Triumph of Seeds, 10

UUngifted, 16Unscientific America, 17

VVisions of Infinity, 14

WWe Have the Technology, 6Why Beauty Is Truth, 14Why Information Grows, 4Words and Rules, 11A World Without Time, 19

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A U T H O R I N D E X

AAlexander, Stephon, 3Allen, John S., 8

BBarabási, Albert-László, 15Baron-Cohen, Simon, 15Benjamin, Arthur, 2Bradshaw, John, 10Buss, David M., 15

CCheng, Eugenia, 10Church, George, 15Cobb, Matthew, 8Cochran, Gregory, 15

DDawkins, Richard, 15Domingos, Pedro, 4Dorner, Dietrich, 15Dyson, George, 15

FFagan, Brian 15, 16Feynman, Richard P., 12Fisher, Len, 16Flores, Dan, 9Ford, Martin, 10Francis, Gavin, 7Frenkel, Edward, 10Friedman, Art, 18

GGasser, Urs, 11Gleiser, Marcelo, 10Gosling, Sam, 16Gray, Peter, 16

HHalpern, Paul, 3Hanson, Thor, 10, 16Harpending, Henry, 15Hatch, Steven, 7Hertenstein, Matthew, 16Hidalgo, César, 4Hillis, W. Daniel, 10Hofstadter, Douglas R., 13Horgan, John, 11Hrabovsky, George, 18Hudson, Richard L., 17

KKane, Gordon, 16Kaufman, Scott Barry, 16Kirsch, Irving, 16Kirshenbaum, Sheril, 17Krauss, Lawrence M., 17Kucharski, Adam, 2

LLarson, Edward J., 17Leslie, Ian, 11Lewens, Tim, 6Lilienfeld, Scott O., 18MMandelbrot, Benoit, 17Mazur, Joseph, 3Medawar, P. B., 17Metzinger, Thomas, 17Michel, Kai, 9Miller, John H., 4Mooney, Chris, 17

NNadis, Steve, 19Norman, Don, 17

OOffit, Paul A., 7, 17Orzel, Chad, 17, 18

PPääbo, Svante, 11Palfrey, John, 5, 11Paulos, John Allen, 18Pickover, Clifford, 18Pinker, Steven, 11Platoni, Kara, 6

RRegis, Ed, 5, 15

SSample, Ian, 18Satel, Sally, 18Shenkman, Rick, 8Stewart, Ian, 14Susskind, Leonard, 18

TTopol, Eric, 11, 18Trivers, Robert, 18Turkle, Sherry, 19

VValiant, Leslie, 19van Schaik, Carel, 9

WWallach, Wendell, 5Weinberg, Robert A., 19Weinberg, Steven, 19Weinberger, David, 19Whybrow, Peter C., 19Wilczek, Frank, 19Wilkes, Jason, 2Wilkinson, Matt, 9Wilson, Bee, 6

YYalom, Irvin D., 11Yau, Shing-Tung, 19Yourgrau, Palle, 19

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