The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

  • David Perkins
W. W. Norton, $14.95, £11.95

Wilderness and the American Mind

  • Roderick Frazier Nash
Yale University Press, $16.95, £11.99

Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed

  • David Clark &
  • Stephen P. H. Clark
W. H. Freeman, $14

The New World of Mr Tompkins

  • George Gamow &
  • Russell Stannard
Cambridge University Press, £10.95, $16.95

“Although presenting quantum mechanics accurately to a broad lay readership will certainly remain a challenge for some time, The New World of Mr Tompkins is a lovely book which I am sure everyone interested in modern physics, from the age of 11 upwards, will enjoy enormously.” Anton Zeilinger, Nature 405, 618 (2000)