The Bactra Review   Subject Index

Popular Science

  Philip Ball, The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
  Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
  Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management
  Jeanne Cavelos, The Science of the X-Files
  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Jacques Badoz, Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery
  Freeman Dyson, Imagined Worlds
  Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides, On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science
  Martin Gardner, The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938--1995
  Larry Gonick and Alice Outwater, The Cartoon Guide to the Environment
  David Harry Grinspoon, Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet
  J. B. S. Haldane, The Causes of Evolution
  John Holland, Emergence: From Order to Chaos
  Wim Kayzer, ``A Glorious Accident'': Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle
  John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
  Annie Murphy Paul, The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
  Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
  William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge
  Mitchel Resnick, Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
  Chris Thornton, Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense
Cf. Education, and Kindred Ways of Moulding the Young; Science Fiction