Science Best Sellers – Bibliography

Top Ten Best Sellers in New York

1 The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Simon Singh

Anchor Books

2 The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

Miles Harvey

Random House

3 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

Vintage Books

4 Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

Harpercollins

5 A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub.

6 Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect

Paul R. Ehrlich

Island Press

7 To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

Henry Petroski

Vintage Books

8 Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

Martin J. Rees

Basic Books

9 Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Gene Kranz

Graphics Press

10 Galileo’s Daughter

Dava Sobel

Penguin USA

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