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A wealth of new popular science titles arrive in 2013. Here's what we're looking forward to
Out in February (UK)/May (US)
In Periodic Tales, Hugh Aldersey-Williams revealed the many ways in which the elements affect our world - from the palettes of artists to chemical interactions. We hope his investigation of the human body will be just as good.
Book information:
Anatomies: The human body, its parts and the stories they tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Viking/W. W. Norton.
Out in February (UK)/April (US)
Astrophysicist and former president of the European Astronomical Society, Paul Murdin, addresses the eternal question - is there anybody out there?
Are We Being Watched? The search for life in the cosmos by Paul Murdin
Thames & Hudson.
Out in April
Do you want to read this book? Emotions and psychological conditions can strongly influence our ability to make decisions. Can smart drugs change that? Would we want them to?
Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs by Barbara Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta
Oxford University Press.
Out in March
Monte Reel tells the story of 19th-century anthropologist Paul Du Chaillu, the first outsider to collect hard evidence for the existence of gorillas.
Between Man and Beast: An unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm by Monte Reel
Doubleday.
Out in April
Insightful, sharp science writing that will have you snorting with laughter is Mary Roach's speciality. In Gulp, she explores our innards in what we hope will be another side-splitting study.
Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal by Mary Roach
OneWorld/W. W. Norton.
Out in April
Think that men and women have lots of bizarre differences? That's nothing compared with the striking distinctions among sexes of other species, as Daphne Fairbairn aims to make clear.
Odd Couples: Extraordinary differences between the sexes in the animal kingdom by Daphne J. Fairbairn
Princeton University Press.
Out in April
Would eating like our distant ancestors make us more healthy? And is pounding the pavement in your bare feet a better way to run? Biologist Marlene Zuk separates the facts from the pseudoscience behind our fondness for the way humans lived in bygone eras.
Paleofantasy: What evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live by Marlene Zuk
W. W Norton.
Out in March
NASA's Roger Wiens has worked on instruments for many robotic space exploration vehicles - including the ChemCam on the Curiosity rover. He tells the inside story.
Red Rover: Inside the story of robotic space exploration, from Genesis to the Curiosity rover by Roger Wiens
Basic Books.
Out in May
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
Basic Books.
Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter earned a Pulitzer prize for his book G?del, Escher, Bach. Now he pairs up with psychologist Emmanuel Sander to introduce a new theory of mind, positing that analogies are the tools we use to make sense of our world.
Out in March
If a computer can quickly spot a problem, can it also solve it? That in a nutshell is the
The Golden Ticket: P, NP and the search for the impossible by Lance Fortnow
Princeton University Press
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