John R. Gribbin, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-316-32833-3
The popularity of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time led to a supernova-like explosion of books by cosmologist-authors who packaged particle physics theory as metaphysics, as though it were the elixir of the scientific life. Science writer...
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John R. Gribbin, Author Yale University Press $42 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-08346-0
How can we measure the age of the universe? Renowned astronomer Gribbin (Almost Everyone's Guide to Science, etc.) answers this question by describing both the early guesswork and later refinements that finally converged on an answer. He masterfully
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John R. Gribbin, Author Yale University Press $40 (232p) ISBN 978-0-300-08101-5
Any book attempting to explain topics as diverse as the inner workings of atoms and the origin of the universe, as well as everything in between, is bound to be superficial. Gribbin's is that, but it is also informative, providing a knowing, if...
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John R. Gribbin, Author Little Brown and Company $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-32975-0
Ever since Einstein came up with the General Theory of Relativity, the Holy Grail of physics has been a ""Theory of Everything"" that would explain the behavior of all the particles and forces in nature in one set of equations. Popular science...
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John R. Gribbin, Author Fromm International $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-88064-199-9
A myriad of ""baby universes"" dangle from ours, connected umbilically to our own spacetime by tunnel-like wormholes. Neutrinos, elusive particles once believed to be without mass, now, as it turns out, seem to contain most of the mass in the...
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John R. Gribbin, Author Little Brown and Company $23.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-316-32838-8
Astrophysicist Gribbin takes readers on an exciting, lucid and mind-stretching tour of the puzzles and paradoxes of quantum physics. Since the publication of his 1984 bestseller In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, experiments have confirmed some of the...
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John R. Gribbin, Author Back Bay Books $12.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-32836-4
In the manner of Hawking's A Brief History of Time, astrophysicist Gibbin discusses the Big Bang theory and the evolution of the universe. (Jan.)
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John R. Gribbin, Author . Random $35 (672p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6013-9
As expansive (and as massive) as a textbook, this remarkably readable popular history explores the development of modern science through the individual stories of philosophers and scientists both renowned and overlooked. Prolific popular science...
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John R. Gribbin, Author Back Bay Books $19.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-32819-7
In a sequel to In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, Gribbin offers further explorations into the often mind-bending theoretical world of contemporary quantum physics. (May)
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John R. Gribbin, Author . Random $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6256-0
"Chaos begets complexity, and complexity begets life"—the most complex thing there is, writes Cambridge University astrophysicist Gribbin in opening this examination of how chaos theory has shifted scientific thinking. Gribbin, a...
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John R. Gribbin, Author, Mary Gribbin, With St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14335-0
A crater discovered in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 1978, and intensively investigated in 1990, may provide the ""smoking gun"" confirming that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a meteorite that smashed into Earth 65 million years ago,...
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John R. Gribbin, Author, Michael White, With Dutton Books $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-93447-9
The forces shaping the life of renowned physicist Hawking seem as strangely charged as those he describes in his physics. His British biographers, both scientists, examine their subject's personal history and ably fill in the spaces between his...
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John R. Gribbin, Author, Mary Gribbin, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-94124-8
Much of the information in this latest offering in Dutton's Life in Science series is redundant of the famed scientist's own remembrances (Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman; What Do You Care What Other People Think?). Those unfamiliar with the life...
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John R. Gribbin, Author, Mary Gribbin, Author . Yale Univ. $35 (336p) ISBN 978-0-300-10361-8
History has not looked favorably on Robert FitzRoy (1805–1865), who captained the Beagle
on Charles Darwin's famous trip around the globe. FitzRoy shared an inclination toward mental instability with his uncle Lord Castlereagh, one of the
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John R. Gribbin, Author, Mary Gribbin, Author, Mary Gribbin, Photographer Blackwell Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-631-16004-5
Sociobiologists tend to view people as altruistic apes gifted with language. They claim that love, cooperation and monogamy are rooted in ``selfish genes'' that program individuals to do what's good for the evolutionary growth of the species. In...
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John R. Gribbin, Author, Martin J. Rees, With Bantam Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-34740-1
As a followup to his other popular science books, including the bestselling In Search of Schrodinger's Cat , astrophysicist Gribbin now collaborates with astronomer Rees for a New Age look at science's recent discoveries about the universe. Aided by
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John Gribben, Author, John R. Gribbin, Author Harmony $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58591-7
The prospect of time travel as originally ``unveiled'' by theories of general relativity has lured many good science writers into paper-thin theories, but Gribbin ( In Search of Schroedinger's Cat ) is not one of them. Here he offers a coherent tour-
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