Science best sellers: top ten best sellers

Skeptical Inquirer, Nov-Dec, 2004

1 Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics

Howard Eves

2 How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants That Purify Your Home or Office

B.C. Wolverton

3 Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar

Alison Jolly

4 The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Mario Livio

5 For Love of Insects

Thomas Eisner

6 Concepts of Modern Mathematics

Ian Stewart

7 Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

William Dunham

8 What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

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Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins; revised by Ian Stewart

9 The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Brian Greene

10 The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

Owen Gingerich

By arrangement with Scientific American (www.sciam.com), September 2004.