The Promise of Sleep: A Scientific Connection Between Health, Happiness and a Good Night's Sleep

  • William C. Dement &
  • Christopher Vaughan
Pan/Dell, £6.99/$14.95

Principles of Condensed Matter Physics

  • P. M. Chaikin &
  • T. C. Lubensky
Cambridge University Press, £29.95, $47.95

Murder, Magic and Medicine

  • John Mann
Oxford University Press, £9.99, $19.95

Tadpoles: The Biology and Anuran Larvae

Edited by:
  • Roy W. McDiarmid &
  • Ronald Altig
University of Chicago Press, $40, £25.50

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

  • Paul Hawken,
  • Amory Lovins &
  • L. Hunter Lovins
Back Bay Books/Earthscan, $17.95/£12.99

“A visionary book that is truly appropriate for the new millennium with its focus on ultra-efficient use of energy and materials.” Norman Myers, Nature 402, 13– 14 (1999)

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behaviour

  • Jonathan Weiner
Faber & Faber, £8.99, $14

“Weiner's book is well written and fun to read, although the question arises, who is the audience? This is scientific reportage and as such should not be expected to provide in-depth analysis to tenets and conclusions. Therefore, those who wish to find a critical assessment of neurogenetics should look elsewhere.”

Yadin Dudai, Nature 398, 773– 774 (1999)

Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized

  • Deborah Gordon
W. W. Norton, $13.95, £9.95

“Ants at Work is an entertaining mixture of personal travel reports and popular science.” Jürgen Heinze, Nature 401, 856–857 ( 1999)