W.W. Norton General Books by Subject
Science/Nature/Environment

• Norton College Books in Anthropology
• Norton College Books in Astronomy and Physics
• Norton College Books in Biology
• Norton College Books in Chemistry
• Norton College Books in Environmental Studies
• Norton College Books in Geology
• Norton College Books in Math and Computer Science

Science/Nature/Environment

• John Alcock - In a Desert Garden
• Arthur Allen - Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver
• Walter Alvarez - In the Mountains of Saint Francis: The Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth
• Marcia Angell, M.D. - Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case
• William Ashworth - Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains
• Kim Bartlett - The Finest Kind: The Fishermen of Gloucester
• David Baron - The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature
• Rick Bass - Wild to the Heart
• Madison Smartt Bell - Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
• Deborah J. Bennett - Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You
• Jan Bondeson - Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
• Jan Bondeson - A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
• Charles Bowen - Desierto
• Peter J. Bowler - The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental Sciences
• Chris Bright - Life Out of Bounds
• William H. Brock - The Chemical Tree: A History of Chemistry
• Lester R . Brown - Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
• Lester R. Brown - Beyond Malthus
• Lester R. Brown - The Earth Policy Reader
• Lester R. Brown - Eco-Economy: Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age
• Lester R. Brown - Full House: Assessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity
• Lester R. Brown - Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
• Lester R. Brown - Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity
• Lester R. Brown - Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
• Lester R. Brown - The World Watch Reader
• Mark Buchanan - Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks
• Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird - Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz
• Christopher C. Burt - Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book, Revised and Updated Edition
• Francis H. Cabot - The Greater Perfection: The Story of the Gardens at Les Quatre Vents
• John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick - Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
• Helen Caldicott, M.D. - A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography
• Helen Caldicott - Nuclear Madness
• Christopher Camuto - Hunting From Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains
• Donald Cardwell - Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets: A History of Technology
• Nicholas Carr - The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny
• Sean B. Carroll - Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
• Sean B. Carroll - The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
• I.B. Cohen - The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life
• I. Bernard Cohen - Science and the Founding Fathers
• Jon Cohen - Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine
• Robert Cook-Deegan - The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome
• Deborah Cramer - Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage
• Alfred W. Crosby - Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
• Mariana Cook - Faces of Science: Portraits
• Charles Darwin - From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books
• Charles Darwin - The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
• Martin Davis - Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer
• Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
• Richard Dawkins - Climbing Mount Improbable
• Terrence W. Deacon,The Symbolic Species
• Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
• Robert S. Desowitz - Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics
• Robert S. Desowitz - The Malaria Capers
• Robert S. Desowitz - New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers
• Robert S. Desowitz - Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?
• Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Nicholas H. Dodman - If Only They Could Speak: Stories about Pets and Their People
• Merlin Donald - A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness
• John E. Dowling, Ph.D. - Creating Mind
• Russell Drumm - In the Slick of the Cricket
• Erica H. Dunn - Birds at Your Feeder: A Guide to Feeding Habits, Behavior, Distribution and Abundance
• Niles Eldredge - Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene
• Niles Eldredge - Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
• Gary Ferguson - The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind
• Richard P. Feynman - "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
• Richard P. Feynman - "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
• Robert Finch - Nature Writing
• Robert L. Fleming, Jr., Dorje Tsering, and Liu Wulin - Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
• Peter Forbes - The Gecko’s Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature
• Cynthia Fox - Cell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell
• Christopher Flavin - Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution
• Hilary French - Vanishing Borders
• Herbert Friedman - The Astronomer's Universe
• Peter Galison- Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
• Gary Gardner - Inspiring Progress: Religions’ Contributions to Sustainable Development
• Martin Gardner - The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems: Edited by Dana Richards
• Martin Gardner - Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics
• Martin Gardner - The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems
• Martin Gardner - Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
• Simon Garfield - Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
• Henry Gee - Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome
• Marcelo Gleiser - The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World
• Laurie R. Godfrey, editor - Scientists Confront Creationism
• Barbara Goldsmith - Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
• Rebecca Goldstein - Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
• Laurence Gonzales - Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
• David Goodstein - Feynman's Lost Lecture
• David Goodstein - Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
• Deborah Gordon - Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized
• Stephen Jay Gould - The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth
• Stephen Jay Gould - Bully for Brontosaurus
• Stephen Jay Gould - Ever Since Darwin
• Stephen Jay Gould - The Flamingo's Smile
• Stephen Jay Gould - Eight Little Piggies
• Stephen Jay Gould - Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
• Stephen Jay Gould - The Mismeasure of Man: Revised and Expanded
• Stephen Jay Gould - The Panda's Thumb
• Stephen Jay Gould - The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
• Stephen Jay Gould - Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville
• Stephen Jay Gould - An Urchin in the Storm
• Stephen Jay Gould - Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
• Ivor Grattan-Guinness - The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences
• Mike Gray - The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror
• Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
• Jan Gullberg - Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers
• Lee Gutkind - Almost Human
• Nina Hall - Exploring Chaos: A Guide to the New Science of Disorder
• Blaine Harden - A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
• Anne Harrington - The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
• Brian Harrington - The Flight of the Red Knot
• Judith Rich Harris - No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
• Brian Hayes - Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
• Stephen W. Hawking - The Future of Spacetime
• John Hay - The Bird of Light
• John Hay - The Great Beach
• Brian Hayes - Infrastructure
• Hannah Hinchman - Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front
• Hannah Hinchman - A Trail Through Leaves
• Andrew Hodges - One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers
• Donald D. Hoffman - Visual Intelligence
• Lancelot Hogben - Mathematics for the Million
• Linda Hogan - Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
• Jeffrey Hollender - How to Make the World a Better Place: 116 Ways You Can Make a Difference
• Judith Hooper - Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth
• Tom Horton - An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
• Darrell Huff - The Complete How to Figure It
• Darrell Huff - How to Lie with Statistics
• Robert Jastrow - God and the Astronomers, Second Edition
• George Johnson - Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
• Sebastian Junger - Fire
• Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
• Michio Kaku - Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
• Eric R. Kandel, M.D. - In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
• Daniel J. Kevles - The Baltimore Case
• Harold Klawans - Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
• Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn - Earth: The Sequel
• Robert Kunzig - Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
• Anne LaBastille - Mama Poc: An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species
• Anne LaBastille - Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake
• Ralph Leighton - Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
• Robert Franklin Leslie - In the Shadow of a Rainbow: The True Story of a Friendship Between Man and Wolf
• David Leavitt - The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
• Kristen Leutwyler - The Moons of Jupiter
• H. W. Lewis - Technological Risk
• Philip Lieberman - Eve Spoke
• G. E. R. Lloyd - Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle
• William Bryant Logan - Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
• William Bryant Logan - Oak: The Frame of Civilization
• William Longgood - The Queen Must Die
• James Lovelock - The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
• Jeff Lyon - Altered Fates: The Genetic Re-engineering of Human Life
• David Mas Masumoto - Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring
• David Mas Masumoto - Harvest Son
• Thomas P. McElroy, Jr. - The New Handbook of Attracting Birds
• Johnjoe McFadden - Quantum Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery
• Robert W. McFarlane - A Stillness in the Pines: The Ecology of the Red Cockaded Woodpecker
• J. R. McNeill - Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
• Luc Montagnier, M.D. - Virus
• Charles R. Morris - The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center
• Richard A. Muller - Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
• Sherwin B. Nuland - The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
• Martha C. Nussbaum - Clones and Clones
• S. Jay Olshansky - The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging
• Hans C. Ohanian - Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
• Outside Magazine - Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of America, 25th Anniversary Edition
• Outside Magazine - The Polar Bear Waltz and Other Moments of Epic Silliness
• Thomas Pakenham - Remarkable Trees of the World
• Randall Packer - Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
• Stephen R. Palumbi - The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
• David Perkins - The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking
• Brenda Peterson - Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals
• Andrew J. Petto and Laurie R. Godfrey, Editors - Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond
• Jonathan H. Pincus - Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill?
• Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works
• Elizabeth Pisani - The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
• Roy Porter - Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
• Roy Porter - The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
• Sandra Postel - Pillar of Sand
• David Quammen - Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
• David Quammen - Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
• David Quammen - The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
• David M. Raup - Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
• David M. Raup - The Nemesis Affair
• Richard Reeves - A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
• Ed Regis - The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau
• Michael Renner - Fighting for Survival
• Mary Roach - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
• Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
• Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics
• Mark Ridley - How to Read Darwin
• Michael Riordan - Crystal Fire
• David Roberts - Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century
• Barbara Katz Rothman - Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations
• Galen Rowell - Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography
• Leonard Lee Rue III - How I Photograph Wildlife and Nature
• Mario Salvadori - Why the Earth Quakes: The Story of Earthquakes and Volcanoes
• Anne Sayre - Rosalind Franklin and DNA
• Dennis E. Shasha - Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles: 36 Puzzles for Hackers and Other Mathematical Detectives
• Susan Sheets-Pyenson - Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities (paperback)
• Seth Shulman - The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret
• Joel Shurkin - Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors
• Hampton Sides - Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature
• Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst - Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
• Roger Smith - The Norton History of the Human Sciences
• Dorothy Sterling - The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island
• Rebecca Stott - Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
• Bryan Sykes - Adam's Curse: A Future without Men
• Bryan Sykes - Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
• Bryan Sykes - The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
• Christopher Sykes - No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman
• Malba Tahan - The Man Who Counted
• Keith S. Thompson - Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth
• Henry David Thoreau - Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
• Kip S. Thorne - Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
• Sheila Tobias - Overcoming Math Anxiety: Revised and Expanded Edition
• Kim Todd - Tinkering With Eden: A Natural History of Exotic Species in America
• David Toomey - The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
• David Toomey - Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
• Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
• Neil deGrasse Tyson And Donald Goldsmith - Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
• John Valliant - The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
• Frank Vertosick, Jr., M.D. - When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
• Steven Vogel - Cats' Paws and Catapults
• Steven Vogel - Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle
• William T. Vollmann - Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
• David Foster Wallace - Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
• Barbara Ward - The Home of Man
• Jonathan Waterman - Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Lyall Watson - Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant
• Lyall Watson - Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell
• Duncan J. Watts - Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
• Michael L. Weber - The Wealth of Oceans: Environment and Development on Our Ocean Planet
• Margaret Wertheim - The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet
• Margaret Wertheim - Pythagoras's Trousers
• John Archibald Wheeler - Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
• Helen Whybrow - Dead Reckoning: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Golden Age of Exploration, 1800-1900
• Antony Wild - Coffee: A Dark History
• John Noble Wilford - Cosmic Dispatches: The New York Times Reports on Astronomy and Cosmology
• Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield - After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning
• Edward O. Wilson - The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
• Edward O. Wilson - The Diversity of Life
• Eric R. Wolf - Anthropology
• Richard Wolfson - Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
• Lewis Wolpert - Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
• Worldwatch Institute - Vital Signs 2007–2008: The Trends That Are Shaping Out Future
• Worldwatch Institute - Vital Signs 2006
• Worldwatch Institute - Vital Signs 2005
• Worldwatch Institute - State of the World 2008: Toward a Sustainable Global Economy
• Worldwatch Institute - State of the World 2007
• Worldwatch Institute - State of the World 2006
• Worldwatch Institute - State of the World 2004
• Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith - iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon
• Roger Yepsen - Apples