George Johnson, Author Vintage Books USA $19 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-73759-9
This elegantly written investigation of the memory-storing process includes reports from biologist Gary Lynch, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Cooper and philosopher Patricia Churchland. Illustrated. (Mar.)
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George Johnson, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-74021-6
Science writer Johnson visits cutting-edge scientific think tanks and ponders the thin lines between order and chaos, fact and belief. (Sept.)
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George Johnson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-394-58348-8
How does the brain create memories? It seems that under the impact of experience, the brain actually changes its structure, filing away patterns of newly connected neurons for future recollection. But the exact mechanisms remain a mystery. Johnson (
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George Johnson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (379p) ISBN 978-0-679-41192-5
New York Times science writer Johnson (In the Palaces of Memory) presents an extraordinary look at vanguard areas of scientific research where information science, molecular biology, cosmology and subatomic physics converge. Remarkably, much of this
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George Johnson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-43764-2
Up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quarks, the mind-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-discovered and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann. New York Times
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George Johnson, Author . Norton/Atlas $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-393-05128-5
In the early 1900s the "computers" at the Harvard University Observatory were women, paid 25 cents an hour to pore over photographic plates taken with the university's telescope and to catalogue changes in the sizes and locations of...
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George Johnson, Author . Knopf $22 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4101-5
Award-winning science writer Johnson (A Fire in the Mind
; Strange Beauty
) calls readers away from the “industrialized” mega-scale of modern science (which requires multimillion-dollar equipment and teams of scientists) to appreciate 10
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Johnson, Author, George Johnson, Author Crown Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1229-6
Readers interested in artificial intelligence, or AI, should find this full-scale update of the field indispensable. The book takes its place with such notable works on the subject as Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach and Pamela McCorduck's...
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George Johnson, Author . Knopf $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-41193-9
Johnson has been nominated for several awards for earlier books on physics and physicists (Strange Beauty; Fire in the Mind). Here he sticks mainly to science, providing a quick overview of a cutting-edge union between quantum theory and computing....
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George Johnson. Knopf, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-59514-0
It’s his wife Nancy’s grueling fight against a rare and “rabid” uterine cancer that prompts science writer Johnson (The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments) to delve into the efforts to study, treat, and beat what Siddhartha Mukherjee dubbed “The Emperor
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George Johnson and Allan Maki. Firefly, $35 (256p) ISBN 978-0-22810-280-9
Journalists Johnson and Maki celebrate the NFL’s 100th anniversary in this impressive ranking of what the authors consider to be the best athletes ever to play professional football. After a preliminary alphabetical ranking of the top 10, (among...
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