The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea

  • William J. Broad &
  • Dimitry Schidlovsky
Simon & Schuster, $15, £9.99

The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival

  • Bernd Heinrich
Harvard University Press, $17.95

Visions: How Science will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond

  • Michio Kaku
Oxford University Press, £8.99, $14

Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes and Other Dark Matters

  • Michael Hawkins with Celia Fitzgerald
Perseus, $13

“⃛his hypothesis is very likely to be disproved to the satisfaction of any sapient individual. If, on the other hand, his theory is observationally confirmed, then he will without doubt be acclaimed by the establishment, and I will eat this review.” William Press, Nature 388, 138; (1997) .

About Face

  • Jonathan Cole
MIT Press, $16.81, £15.85

“Cole believes that facial expressions are the main way to communicate emotion, and to prove his point he has had the ingenious idea of examining the deficits of those who either cannot interpret the expressions of others ⃛ or cannot display such expressions themselves.” Stuart Sutherland, Nature 390, 458; ( 1997).