Science Masters series

The Science Masters series is a book series of short, non-mathematical books for a general audience written by scientists known for their popular writings. It was created by the literary agent John Brockman in the 1990s, and originally published by Basic Books.

Books include:

• The Origin of the Universe by John D. Barrow
• The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies
• The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey
• How Brains Think by William H. Calvin
• The Periodic Kingdom by P.W. Atkins
• The Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Adele Greenfield
• Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Martin J. Rees
• Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
• Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose by Stephen H. Schneider
• Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart
• One Renegade Cell: The Origins of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg
• Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution by Lynn Margulis
• The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis
• The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature by George C. Williams (in England as Plan and Purpose In Nature)
• River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
• What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
• Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
• Words and Rules by Steven Pinker
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
• Beginning of Time by George Smoot
• Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management by Stephen Budiansky
• The Sixth Extinction Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin
• Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Human Identity by Lawrence Wright