杏吧原创

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Doubleday

2. Looking for Spinoza^* by Antonio Damasio, Heinemann/Wereldbibliotheek

3. Evoluerend Heelal (Evolving Universe) by Govert Schilling, Davidsfonds Leuven (only available in Dutch)

4. Galileo鈥檚 Finger: The ten great ideas of science by Peter Atkins, Oxford University Press

5. The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy, Fourth Estate

6. Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate

7. Life on a Young Planet by Andrew H. Knoll, Princeton University Press

8. Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by Martinus Veltman, World Scientific

9. The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin, Basic Books

10. Our Final Century^* by Martin Rees, Heinemann/Het Spectrum

^*Translated into Dutch. Information supplied by Scheltema, Amsterdam (fax +31 20 6227684), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback within the past year.

Curious about authors? The formidable brain of Nobel prizewinner and bestseller Martinus Veltman finds its physical correlate in a powerful bronze bust in the University of Michigan鈥檚 sculpture park. He鈥檚 in good company: mathematician Claude Shannon鈥檚 statue is also in the university鈥檚 sculpture park.