- From Lucy to Language by Donald Johanson, Simon & Schuster
- Full House by Stephen Jay Gould, Harmony
- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, Viking
- Web of Life by Fritjof Capra, HarperCollins
- Fermat鈥檚 Last Theorem by Amir Aczel, Four Walls, Eight Windows
- Betrayal of Science and Reason by Paul Ehrlich, Island Press
- End of Science by John Horgan, Addison-Wesley
- Making PCR by Paul Rabinow, University of Chicago Press
- Invention by Design by Henry Petroski, Harvard University Press
- Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch, HarperCollins
Berkeley鈥檚 best is Donald Johanson鈥檚 From Lucy to Language, a stunning
documentary of human evolution. Johanson discovered Lucy, the 3.2
million-year-old hominid skeleton. He also founded and heads the Institute of
Human Origins, just down the road from Cody鈥檚. Information supplied by Cody鈥檚,
Berkeley (Fax 510-641-6185/e-mail Codysbks@well.com.) for science
bestsellers first published in hardback or paperback in the US within the past
12 months. See Planet Science at http://www. newscientist.com for more
reviews.
