Science Best Sellers - Review

Skeptical Inquirer, Nov-Dec, 2001

Top Ten Best Sellers in New York

1 Fire

Sebastian Junger

W.W. Norton & Co.

2 Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

Judith Miller, et al.

Simon & Schuster

3 Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant

Richard Stone

Perseus Books

4 The Map that Changed the World:

William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Simon Winchester

HarperCollins

5 The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001

Burkhard Bilger, Edward O. Wilson (Editor)

Houghton Mifflin Co.

6 Cliffs Ap Biology

Phillip E. Pack

Hungry Minds, Inc.

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7 Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Lee Smolin

Basic Books

8 Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Steven Johnson

Scribner

9 The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things

Hannah Holmes

John Wiley & Sons

10 Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio terrorist Catastrophe

Michael T. Osterholm, John Schwartz

Dell Publishing