Sean Carroll, Author . Norton $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-393-06016-4
Cobb County textbook stickers aside, evolutionary natural selection offers a pretty straightforward explanation for the forward march of species through history; a mutation that better equips a given organism to survive is passed along to its heirs,
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Sean Carroll, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26 (331p) ISBN 978-0-15-101485-9
It's unclear whether the title refers to the daring naturalist/explorers Carroll depicts or the creatures whose remains they found. In this thoroughly enjoyable book, Carroll (Endless Forms Most Beautiful
), a molecular biologist at the...
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Sean Carroll, Author . Dutton $26.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-525-95133-9
No one is better equipped to take readers on a rollercoaster ride through time, space, and the origins of the universe than Caltech theoretical physicist Carroll, cofounder of Cosmic Variance, one of the top science blog sites. “We're not
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Sean Carroll. Dutton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95359-3
With his trademark wit and lucidity, Carroll (From Eternity to Here) delivers the story of the search for the elusive Higgs boson—the Holy Grail of particle physics—which was finally discovered earlier in 2012. The tale, says Carroll, a theoretical...
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Sean Carroll. Dutton, $28 (496p) ISBN 978-0-525-95482-8
Carroll (The Particle at the End of the Universe), a theoretical physicist at Caltech, marshals an impressive array of scientific information to convince readers that the universe and everything in it can be explained by science. He posits “poetic...
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Sean Carroll, read by Erik Synnestvedt, Tantor Media, unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.5 hours, $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1565-5
Carroll explains the scientific studies of time in an accessible text for the lay reader, but one that proves prohibitively confusing for the lay listener. Sentences are stuffed with important, sometimes esoteric information that takes going over...
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Sean Carroll, Author, Jamie W. Carroll, Illustrator, Leanne M. Olds, Illustrator . Norton $25.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-393-06163-5
Picking up where scientists like Richard Dawkins have left off, Carroll, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-Devo
), has written a fast-paced look at how DNA...
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Sean Carroll. Dutton, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4301-7
Theoretical physicist Carroll (The Big Picture) explores holes in the foundation of modern physics in this challenging, provocative book. Quantum mechanics is, according to Carroll, “the deepest, most comprehensive view of reality we know of.” But...
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Sean Carroll. Dutton, $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-18658-9
Carroll (Something Deeply Hidden), a physics professor at Cal Tech, doesn’t quite deliver on his insistence that “it is possible to learn about modern physics for real, equations and all, even if you are more amateur than professional and have every
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