Scientific American Library

{{Short description|Popular science book series}}

The Scientific American Library is a book series of popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by Scientific American books from 1983 to 1997. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a Book of the Month Club selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.{{Cite web| title = FSG, 'Scientific American' Roll Out New Imprint| work = PublishersWeekly.com| access-date = 2017-12-10| url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/52025-fsg-scientific-american-roll-out-new-imprint.html}}

Books include:

• Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero by Philip Morrison
• Human Diversity by Richard Lewontin
• The Discovery of Subatomic Particles by Steven Weinberg
• The Science of Musical Sound by John Robinson Pierce
• Fossils and the History of Life by George Gaylord Simpson
• The Solar System: The Sun, Planets and Life by Roman Smoluchowski
• On Size and Life by Thomas A. McMahon
• Perception by Irvin Rock
• Constructing the Universe by David Layzer
• The Second Law by P. W. Atkins
• A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, Volume 1 by Christian de Duve
• A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, Volume 2 by Christian de Duve
• Mathematics and Optimal Form by {{ill|Stefan Hildebrandt|de}}
• Fire by John W. Lyons
• Sun and Earth by Herbert Friedman
• Einstein's Legacy by Julian Schwinger
• Islands by Henry William Menard
• Drugs and the Brain by Solomon H. Snyder
• The Timing of Biological Clocks by Arthur T. Winfree
• Extinction by Steven M. Stanley
• Molecules by P. W. Atkins
• Eye, Brain, and Vision by David H. Hubel
• Science of Structures and Materials by J. E. Gordon
• Sand by {{ill|Raymond Siever|de}}
• The Honey Bee by James L. Gould{{cite magazine |last=Maione |first=Ian |date=September–October 1999 |title=The Honey Bee: By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. Scientific American Library, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-7167-6010-X. 239 pp. Paperback. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A55683973/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=570170e0 |magazine=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=23 |issue=5 |page=52 |via=Gale |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515080039/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA55683973&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=570170e0 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Animal Navigation by Talbot H. Waterman
• Sleep by J. Allan Hobson
• From Quarks to the Cosmos by Leon M. Lederman
• Sexual Selection by James L. Gould
• The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya by Jeremy A. Sabloff
• A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime by John Archibald Wheeler
• The Science of Telecommunications by John Robinson Pierce
• Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions by Thomas F. Banchoff
• Discovering Enzymes by David Dressler
• The Science of Words by George Armitage Miller
• Atoms, Electrons, and Change by P. W. Atkins
• Viruses by Arnold J. Levine
• Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest by John Terborgh{{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=Adrian G. |title=J. Terborgh 1992. Diversity and the tropical rain forest. Scientific American Library, W. H. Freeman, New York, xii + 242 pages. ISBN 140-3213-5026-0, (Hardback). - O. T. Solbrig, H. M. Van Emden & P. G. W. J. Van Oordt (Eds). 1992. Biodiversity and global change. Monograph No. 8, International Union of Biological Sciences, Paris, iv + 224 pages. ISBN 92-9046-0799, (Paperback). - V. Shiva et al.1991. Biodiversity: Social and ecological perspectives. World Rainforest Movement, Penang and Zed Books, London. 123 pages. Hardback: ISBN 1-85649-053-X; paperback: 1-85649-054-8 |journal=Journal of Tropical Ecology |date=August 1993 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=385–386 |doi=10.1017/S0266467400007458}}
• Stars by James B. Kaler{{cite magazine |date=June 1993 |title=Stars, by James B. Kaler, (Scientific American Library, 1992), ISBN 0-7167-5033-3, 273 pages, hardcover, $24.95. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A13818477/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=967fb771 |magazine=Astronomy |via=Gale |volume=21 |issue=6 |page=93 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515074748/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA13818477&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=967fb771 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Exploring Biomechanics: Animals in Motion by R. McNeill Alexander
• Chemical Communication by William C. Agosta
• Genes and the Biology of Cancer by Harold Varmus
• Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science by {{ill|William J. Kaufmann III|it}}
• Molecules and Mental Illness by Samuel H. Barondes
• Exploring Planetary Worlds by David Morrison{{cite news |last=Pemberton |first=Heather |date=November 1993 |title=Exploring Planetary Worlds |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A14499558/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=3d45f7ca |magazine=CD-ROM Professional |publisher=Information Today |via=Gale |volume=6 |issue=6 |page=221 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515074946/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA14499558&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=3d45f7ca |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}{{cite magazine |date=February 1994 |title=Exploring Planetary Worlds: David Morrison, (Scientific American Library, 1993), ISBN 0-7167-5043-0, 238 pages, hardcover, $24.95. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A14663454/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=52abb2f6 |magazine=Astronomy |via=Gale |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=94 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515075124/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA14663454&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=52abb2f6 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Earthquakes and Geological Discovery by Bruce A. Bolt
• The Origin of Modern Humans by Roger Lewin
• The Evolving Coast by Richard A. Davis
• Life processes of plants by Arthur W. Galston{{cite journal |last=Van Volkenburgh |first=Elizabeth |date=January 1996 |title=Life Processes of Plants |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A17942795/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=d63b0417 |journal=BioScience |via=Gale |volume=46 |issue=1 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515073024/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA17942795&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=d63b0417 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Images of Mind by Michael I. Posner
• The Animal Mind by James L. Gould
• Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe by Keith Devlin{{cite magazine |last=Rial |first=J.A. |date=July–August 1995 |title='The gate and the key of the sciences': Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Keith Devlin. 215 pp. Scientific American Library, 1994. $32.95. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A166995663/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=5e17ef98 |magazine=American Scientist |via=Gale |volume=83 |issue=4 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515073213/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA166995663&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=5e17ef98 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• A Short History of the Universe by Joseph Silk{{cite magazine |date=April 1995 |title=A Short History of the Universe |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A16544085/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=bbf90cd4 |magazine=Astronomy |via=Gale |volume=23 |issue=4 |page=96 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515075236/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA16544085&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=bbf90cd4 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• The Emergence of Agriculture by Bruce D. Smith{{cite magazine |last=Van Epen |first=Karen |date=Winter 1995 |title=The Emergence of Agriculture: Bruce D. Smith. Scientific American Library, 1994; 231 pp. ISBN 0-7167-5055-4. $32.95 ($35.95 postpaid) |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A17922410/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=b2760a92 |magazine=Whole Earth Review |via=Gale |issue=88 |page=55 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515075653/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA17922410&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=b2760a92 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Atmosphere, Climate, and Change by T. E. Graedel
• Aging: A Natural History by Robert E. Ricklefs
• Investigating Disease Patterns: The Science of Epidemiology by Paul D. Stolley
• Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe by Mitchell Begelman
• Conservation and Biodiversity by {{ill|Andrew P. Dobson|de}}{{cite journal |last=Saterson |first=Kathryn A. |date=July 1998 |title=Conservation and Biodiversity: Andrew P. Dobson. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996. 264 pp., illus. $32.95 (ISBN 0-7167-5057-0 cloth). |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A54141352/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=6b60c11e |journal=BioScience |via=Gale |volume=48 |issue=7 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515073418/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA54141352&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=6b60c11e |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany by Michael J. Balick
• Life at Small Scale: The Behavior of Microbes by David B. Dusenbery
• Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View by Roger Lewin
• Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil
• Cosmic Clouds: Birth, Death, and Recycling in the Galaxy by James B. Kaler
• The Elusive Neutrino: A Subatomic Detective Story by Nickolas Solomey
• Lasers - Harnessing the Atoms Light by James P. Harbison
• Consciousness by J. Allan Hobson
• Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman{{cite news |last=Kreyche |first=Gerald F. |date=May 1999 |title=Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman / Scientific American Library, 1999, pp. 224, $34.95 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A54680910/STND?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=6d46e771 |newspaper=USA Today |via=Gale |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515072226/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=STND&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA54680910&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-STND&asid=6d46e771 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}{{cite journal |last=Sejnowski |first=Terrence J. |date=1999-02-19 |title=Evolving Brains by John Morgan Allman Scientific American Library, New York, 1999. 238 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-7167-5076-7. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A54710990/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=f8b5fc29 |journal=Science |via=Gale |volume=283 |issue=5405 |page=1121 |accessdate=2023-05-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515072516/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA54710990&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=f8b5fc29 |archivedate=2023-05-15 }}
• Memory: From Mind to Molecules by Larry R. Squire
• Visual Computing by Richard Mark Friedhoff