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The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery of Twentieth-Century Physicists. Abraham Pais. 356 pp. Oxford University Press, 2000. $30.00 Noted physicist Abraham Pals, biographer of Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, [...]

Building Planet Earth: Five Billion Years of Earth History and The Climate Revealed (both from Cambridge University Press at $39.95 each), sized for the coffee table, offer visually rich forays [...]

In The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development (Harvard University Press, $55), David Reiss and colleagues propose that patterns of family relations-between siblings, mother and child [...]

Trained in entomology, Benita L. Epstein doodled in her lab notebooks for two decades before her cartoons began appearing in magazines and newspapers. Readers who have enjoyed her work since [...]

In Absolute Zero and The Conquest of Cold (Houghton Mifflin, $24), Tom Shachtman explores the science and history of humankind's increasing control of cold. He opens with the remarkable story [...]

Does evolution have a direction? Does human history have meaning? These classic questions have troubled more than one wretched undergraduate who finds himself without a date on a Saturday night. [...]

I've always wanted to have a twin brother. Among the perks, I imagined, would be the opportunity to see oneself from the outside, as others might. For all the twin [...]

In Gobi: Tracking the Desert (Yale University Press, $24.95), John Man mixes the travel-writing spirit of Peter Matthiessen and Bruce Chatwin with his own wry sense of humor to take [...]

According to Tom Siegfried's The Bit and the Pendulum: How the New Physics of In formation Is Revolutionizing Science (Wiley. $27.95), the computer has become the same sort of 'superparadigm' [...]

The 'engines' of Robert Buderi's Engines of Tomorrow: How the World's Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs to Win the Future (Simon & Schuster, $27.50) are intellectual, and both [...]

Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner, eds. xxv + 709 pp. The Science Museum, London, The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian institution, Garland Publishing, 1998. $138. This encyclopedia's overriding [...]

Charles H. Townes. 256 pp. Oxford University Press, 1999. $35. Throughout his productive career, Charles Townes has contributed generously and with distinction to the boards, panels and councils of U.S. [...]

F. G. Major. 475 pp. Springer-Verlag, 1998. $49.95. When you're the new kid in a lab, you wish for a book that will bring you up to speed on the [...]