ABRAMS
Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age (May, $29.95) by Benjamin A. Rifkin and Michael J. Ackerman. This history of anatomical illustration features biographies of anatomists by Judith Folkenberg.
BASIC BOOKS
I Am a Strange Loop (May, $25) by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The author of Gödel, Escher, Bach explores the nature of consciousness and identity. 60,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
BEYOND WORDS
The Divine Code of Life: Awaken Your Genes and Find Hidden Talents (May, $18.95) by Kazuo Murakami. The award-winning scientist declares that correct stimulation can awaken dormant genes.
WM. B. EERDMANS
Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (Apr., $40) by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen encourages sustained investigation into the question of human uniqueness.
GROVE PRESS
Darwin's Origin of Species (Apr., $19.95) by Janet Browne provides a guide to Darwin's seminal work. A Books That Changed the World title.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life (Apr., $24.95) by David P. Mindell explains the practical applications of evolutionary biology.
HILL WANG
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (July, $24) by Alex Vilenkin considers the many and varied implications of the new cosmology.
MACMILLAN SCIENCE (dist. by Palgrave Macmillan)
Pleasurable Kingdom (May, $24.95) by Jonathan Balcombe makes the case for animal pleasure and its ethical and evolutionary implications.
W.W. NORTON
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries (Aug., $24.95) by Neil deGrasse Tyson is a collection of essays on the cosmos by the noted astrophysicist. 3-city author tour.
NORTON/ATLAS
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (July, $22.95) by David Quammen takes a new look at Darwin's most radical idea.
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS (dist. by NBN)
Information Generation: How Data Rules Our World (June, $22.95) reveals the seminal role played by data in our lives.
PENGUIN PRESS
Ghost Hunters: The Scientific Quest for Life After Death in the Dawn of the 20th Century (Aug., $26.95) by Deborah Blum describes the quest undertaken by William James and other eccentric thinkers of his time.
PROMETHEUS
Flowers: How They Changed the World (May, $23) by William C. Burger. A leading botanist examines flowers' crucial role in life's evolutionary scheme.
THUNDER BAY
Night Sky (June, $29.95) by Giles Sparrow provides information for exploring and understanding the stars and constellations.
THUNDERS MOUTH
The Möbius Strip: Dr. August Möbius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology (Mar., $26) by Clifford Pickover explores the weird world of the shape made popular by Escher.
WEISER BOOKS
The God Theory (June, $21.95) by Bernard Haisch proposes a worldview combining the achievements of modern science with the concepts of a divine creative intelligence.
