Popular Science
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
Paperback
Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award
"This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
Paperback
"You read with a rising sense of despair and outrage, and you finish it as if awakening from a nightmare only Kafka could have conceived."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case
Paperback
"An accessible, passionate indictment of the ignorance, opportunism and social indifference that enriched lawyers and a few plaintiffs, though the available scientific evidence was against them." —New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of 1996
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Paperback
"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review
Why the Earth Quakes: The Story of Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Paperback
“At last an inviting book on earthquakes, written by scientists whose easily understandable prose takes us on a tour not only of seismology but also of modern building technologies, volcanoes, and that California constant, the magnificent rubbing and pushing of tectonic plates beneath us.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review