Science Masters series
# 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
