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NEW TITLES • HISTORY OF SCIENCE NEW TITLES • HISTORY OF SCIENCE FRANK WILCZEK LYDIA PYNE A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design Seven Skeletons PAID Presort Std The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils The Nobel laureate explores the question “Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?” He re- U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 veals how it has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras to Galileo, Newton, Max- Staten Island, NY HISTORY Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for seven well, Einstein, and into 21st-century physics, bringing us right to the edge of knowledge today, celebrity fossils from their discoveries to their legacies in popular culture. where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. “Seven Skeletons is a sprightly, informative page-turner with a deeper message: the “Wilczek... has accomplished a rare feat: Writing a book of profound humanity based on strange careers of human remains have much to tell us about how we use science to questions aimed directly at the eternal.”—The Wall Street Journal understand what it means to be human.”—Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-0-14-310936-5 • $18.00 OF SCIENCE VIKING HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-525-42985-2 • $28.00 JIM BELL ARMAND MARIE LEROI The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission Acclaimed biologist Leroi recovers Aristotle’s science, combing through his vast treatises The award-winning planetary scientist reveals what drove and continues to drive the mem- on the living world to showcase his observations, ideas, and inspired guesses. The Lagoon bers of the team behind the Voyager spacecraft missions, our farthest-flung emissaries. reveals that Aristotle was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest. “Part scientific autobiography, part top-notch science writing, Jim Bell’s book is a wel- New Titles for Courses 2016-2017 “Inspired and inspiring….Leroi’s ambitious aim is to return Aristotle to the pantheon of come addition to the history of the Voyager Missions.”—Jon Lomberg, space artist, biology’s greats, alongside Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus. He has achieved it.”—Nature science journalist, and co-creator of the Voyager Interstellar Record PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 512 PAGES • 978-0-14-312798-7 • $18.00 DUTTON PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-1-101-98389-8 • $17.00 STEVEN JOHNSON CARLO ROVELLI How We Got to Now Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Elusive Six Innovations That Made the Modern World PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, Structure of the Universe and the Journey to Quantum Gravity Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life TRANSLATED BY SIMON CARNELL AND ERICA SEGRE (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobby- Rovelli takes us on a journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday ists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. to the Higgs boson, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. His PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP “You’re apt to find yourself exhilarated.”—The New York Times Book Review evocative explanations invite us to imagine, beyond our ever-changing idea of reality. RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-1-59463-393-5 • $18.00 “Rovelli writes with crystalline simplicity….He turns quantum physics into a coherent story, shaping it as a quest for a single, underlying 'substratum' of reality.”—The Times (UK) RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-7352-1392-0 • $26.00 SHIHAB AL-DIN AL-NUWAYRI The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Seven Brief Lessons on Physics A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World Rovelli provides a mind-bending introduction to modern physics, explaining Einstein's gen- EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ELIAS MUHANNA eral relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. “This charming fourteenth-century encyclopedia gives a glimpse of the entire world as seen by “[Rovelli's] passion for his chosen field is evident on every page….The reader will come a very learned Egyptian summing up the powerful tradition of medieval Islamic scholarship away…with a deeper understanding of how modern physics has brought us closer to an known in his time. Elias Muhanna’s very readable translation allows the reader to gain a round- ultimate understanding of reality.”—The New York Times Book Review ed experience of a deeply interesting bygone world.”—Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 96 PAGES • 978-0-399-18441-3 • $18.00 “Smart [and] exhilarating.”—Andras P. Hamori, Princeton University PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-310748-4 • $18.00 JULIAN GUTHRIE JERRY A. COYNE How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible PREFACE BY RICHARD BRANSON • AFTERWORD BY STEPHEN HAWKING Evolutionary biologist Coyne lays out in dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science is reliable, while that of religion leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. The story of the first civilian-piloted spaceship is a tale of making the impossible possible. The result wasn’t just a victory for one team, but the foundation for a new industry and age. HISTORY "Coyne expertly exposes the incoherence of the increasingly popular belief that you can have it both ways: that God...sort-of exists; that miracles kind-of happen; and that the “Outstanding and compelling....Shows the power of one man’s vision, and the ability of small PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP PUBLISHING PENGUIN our College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) at: truthiness of dogma is somewhat-a-little-bit-more-or-less-who’s-to-say-it-isn’t like the WWW.PENGUIN.COM/FACINFO teams to accomplish extraordinary things.”—Ray Kurzweil, author, The Singularity Is Near OF SCIENCE New Titles for Courses 2016-2017 Courses for Titles New For complimentary examination copies and personalized For complimentary examination copies and personalized truths of science and reason.”—Steven Pinker, Harvard University PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 448 PAGES • 978-1-59420-672-6 • $28.00 assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-0-14-310826-9 • $18.00 NEW TITLES • HISTORY OF SCIENCE NEW TITLES • HISTORY OF SCIENCE FRANK WILCZEK LYDIA PYNE A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design Seven Skeletons PAID Presort Std The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils The Nobel laureate explores the question “Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?” He re- U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 veals how it has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras to Galileo, Newton, Max- Staten Island, NY HISTORY Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for seven well, Einstein, and into 21st-century physics, bringing us right to the edge of knowledge today, celebrity fossils from their discoveries to their legacies in popular culture. where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. “Seven Skeletons is a sprightly, informative page-turner with a deeper message: the “Wilczek... has accomplished a rare feat: Writing a book of profound humanity based on strange careers of human remains have much to tell us about how we use science to questions aimed directly at the eternal.”—The Wall Street Journal understand what it means to be human.”—Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-0-14-310936-5 • $18.00 OF SCIENCE VIKING HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-525-42985-2 • $28.00 JIM BELL ARMAND MARIE LEROI The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission Acclaimed biologist Leroi recovers Aristotle’s science, combing through his vast treatises The award-winning planetary scientist reveals what drove and continues to drive the mem- on the living world to showcase his observations, ideas, and inspired guesses. The Lagoon bers of the team behind the Voyager spacecraft missions, our farthest-flung emissaries. reveals that Aristotle was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest. “Part scientific autobiography, part top-notch science writing, Jim Bell’s book is a wel- New Titles for Courses 2016-2017 “Inspired and inspiring….Leroi’s ambitious aim is to return Aristotle to the pantheon of come addition to the history of the Voyager Missions.”—Jon Lomberg, space artist, biology’s greats, alongside Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus. He has achieved it.”—Nature science journalist, and co-creator of the Voyager Interstellar Record PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 512 PAGES • 978-0-14-312798-7 • $18.00 DUTTON PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-1-101-98389-8 • $17.00 STEVEN JOHNSON CARLO ROVELLI How We Got to Now Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Elusive Six Innovations That Made the Modern World PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, Structure of the Universe and the Journey to Quantum Gravity Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life TRANSLATED BY SIMON CARNELL AND ERICA SEGRE (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobby- Rovelli takes us on a journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday ists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. to the Higgs boson, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity.