Warped Passages: Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

  • Lisa Randall
(Penguin, £8.99) 0141012978 | ISBN: 0-141-01297-8

“The book's peg — the possible existence of extra dimensions in space — is easy enough to explain. But motivating the conjecture requires a grand tour of some of the toughest and most abstract topics in science.” Paul Davies, Nature 435, 1161–1162 (2005).

Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature

  • David P. Barash &
  • Nanelle R. Barash
(Delta/Bantam Dell, $14) 0385338023 | ISBN: 0-385-33802-3

“Where most such books rely on scholarly papers and monographs to ground the various points within a shared and robust scientific knowledge [of evolutionary biology], these authors use literature sources as references.” Michel Raymond, Nature 435, 28 (2005).

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

  • W.F. Bynum &
  • Roy Porter
(Oxford University Press, £10.99) 0198614438 | ISBN: 0-198-61443-8