| BLACK HOLES & TIME WARPS: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, by Kip S. Thorne. DINOSAUR IN A TIMESTACK: Reflections in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould HUMANITY'S DESCENT: The Consequences of Ecological Instability, by Rick Potts THE END OF SCIENCE: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, by John Horgan SUPERSTRINGS and the Search for the Theory of Everything, by E. David Peat TIME DETECTIVES: How Scientists Use Modern Technology to Unravel the Secrets of the Past, by Brian Fagan. HOME FROM NOWHERE: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, by James Howard Kunstler. A VOYAGE TO DARI by Ian Wallace (fiction) THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME by Livy THE GATEWAY TRIP by Fred Pohl (fiction) EVOLUTION ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE: The Augmented Animal And The Whole Wired World, by Walter Truett Anderson HOW THE SHAMAN STOLE THE MOON: In Search of Ancient Prophet-Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon, by William Calvin THE TROUBLE WITH PROSPERITY: The Loss of Fear, the Rise of Speculation, and the Risk to American Savings, by James Grant WEIRD WATER AND FUZZY LOGIC: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher, by Martin Gardner. HOW BRAINS THINK: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now, by William H. Calvin. THE GREAT DYING: Cosmic Catastrophe, Dinosaurs, and the Theory of Evolution, by Kenneth J. Hsü THE NEANDERTAL ENIGMA: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins, by James Shreeve. SNOW CRASH, an SF novel by Neal Stephenson INFINITE IN ALL DIRECTIONS: The Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland, by Freeman J. Dyson. DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett. FANFARE FOR EARTH: The Origin of Our Planet and Life, by Harry Y. McSween, Jr. THE DREAMING UNIVERSE: A Mind Expanding Journey Into The Realm WHere Psyche and Physics Meet, by Fred Alan Wolf. THE TIME BEFORE HISTORY: 5 Million Years of Human Impact, by Colin Tudge MINING THE SKY: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets, by John S. Lewis. THE GREAT HUMAN DIASPORAS: The History of Diversity and Evolution, by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza. THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT: How The Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker THE CAVE BENEATH THE SEA: Paleolithic Images at Cosquer, by Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin IN THE BEGINNING: The Birth of the Living Universe, by John Gribben. THE MEASURE OF REALITY: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600, by Alfred W. Crosby. LANGUAGE AND MIND, by Noam Chomsky NOAM CHOMSKY: A Life of Dissent, by Robert F. Barsky RELEASE 2.0: A Design For Living In The Digital Age, by Esther Dyson DEEPER: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace, by John Seabrook |