1
Five Golden Rules by John Casti, John Wiley
2
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos, Basic Books (5)
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3
At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman, Viking (3)
4
Einstein’s Greatest Blunder by Donald Goldsmith, Harvard University Press
5
Hidden Order by John Holland, Addison-Wesley
6
Lost Moon by Jim Lovell, Coronet
7
How Weather Works by Rob Demillo, Ziff-Davis
8
The Private Life of Plants by David Attenborough, BBC Books
9
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly, Fourth Estate (1)
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes, Simon & Schuster
Good news: Casti is top of our list. The bad news is that his next popular book
Surrogate Worlds is not due out until 1997. A long time to wait, but if you cannot, you can console yourself with his treatise on mathematical modelling of a nanocomplex world expected this month.
Information supplied by Reiters, Washington DC (Fax 202-296903) for science bestsellers first published in hardback or paperback in the US within the past 12 months. For more reviews see Planet Science at http://staging.newscientistbeta.com.
