Abrams
America in Space: NASA’S First Fifty Years (Oct., $50), published in collaboration with NASA and with a foreword by Neil Armstrong, traces the history of America’s space exploration.
Bellevue Literary Press
Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution (Sept., $25) by David P. Barash explains what happens when evolutionary and cultural imperatives clash.
Columbia Univ. Press
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Food (Nov., $22.95) by Hervé This shares secrets for mastering the kitchen. 4-city author tour
Encounter Books
Confessions of a Climate Scientist: Cures for Global Warming Mass Hysteria (Jan., $25.95) by Roy Spencer takes a satirical look at the response to global warming.
Firefly Books
Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20X to 22 MillionX Magnification (Sept., $29.95) by Brandon Broll explores everyday life at its tiniest in more than 200 color images.
Houghton Mifflin
Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Nov., $24) by Jonah Lehrer looks at how several artists, including Proust and Cézanne, anticipated scientific discoveries about the mind. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Mit Press
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA (Nov., $26.95) by Catherine Brady focuses on Blackburn’s life and work and the emergence of a new field of research on chromosomes.
National Geographic Books
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep (Oct., $30) by Michael Everhart serves as a companion volume to National Geographic’s upcoming 3-D film.
W.W. Norton
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Nov., $23.95) by Richard Reeves presents a biography of the man who first split the atom.
The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Jan., $25.95) by Anne Harrington explains how personal attitudes allow people to make sense of their suffering and rationalize new treatments. A Norton Book for Psychotherapists.
Pantheon
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Feb., $24) by Neil Shubin takes us on an organ-by-organ journey through the human body to explain why we look the way we do.
Prometheus Books
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (Oct., $28.95) by Barbara A. Oakley links molecular and genetic discoveries with seemingly unrelated phenomena to argue that “evil” people are programmed genetically.
Running Press
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Works of Albert Einstein (Oct., $29.95), edited and with commentary by Stephen Hawking, collects Einstein’s most important works. 75,000 first printing.
Univ. of Virginia Press
A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (Sept., $21.95) by Freeman J. Dyson emphasizes the myriad ways in which the universe presents itself to us and how we respond to it.
Viking
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Sept., $29.95) by Steven Pinker uses examples from everyday life to explain how words explain our nature, our relationship to society and more. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.
Zone Books
Objectivity (Sept., $38.95) by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison charts the emergence of objectivity in the mid-19th century as revealed through images in scientific atlases.
