The Science Masters Series from the Orion Publishing Company brings together some of the most stimulating scientific authors of the age. Professor Richard Gregory reviewed the series in the RSA Journal and concluded:

"The volumes each stand alone as important works in their own right; together they constitute an intellectual tour de force indeed."

We recommend them to anyone with a broad interest in science, the Universe and the world around them.

by Susan Greenfield

Locked away in its casing of skull bone, the brain remains a tantalising mystery, despite astounding progress in brain research. This book begins by exploring the different regions of the brain and goes on to examine how certain functions are accommodated in the brain.
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by Daniel C Bennett

What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? This book aims to answer these questions, the first being about ontology, and the second about epistemology.
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by Lynn Margulis

This text traces the evolution of planet Earth, from the origin of life to the emergence of "hypersea" and humanity's cloudy future. The book also explains the importance of symbiosis, the process where different organisms contribute to each other's existence and support.
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by Lee Smolin

The Holy Grail of modern physics is the search for a quantum gravity view of the universe that unites Einstein's general relativity with quantum theory. In this book, Lee Smolin provides an overview of current attempts to reconcile these theories.
Price: £7.99

by Stephen H Schneider

The possibility of global climatic change as a result of increasing numbers of people requiring higher standards of living has spawned an international controversy over the appropriateness of international controls on deforestation and energy use. This book addresses this conflict.
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by W Daniel Hillis

In order to answer the question "can computers think?", this book starts with an account of how computers are built and why they work, describing what they can and cannot do (at the present time), before explaining how a computer can surpass its programmer and, finally, become a thinking machine.
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by Robert A Weinberg

This text explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise and spread. The book is an expansion of the article from "Scientific American" which discussed developments in cancer research since the 1970s.
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by Martin J Rees

How was it that a single "genesis event" could create billions of galaxies, stars and planets? This book demonstrates how just six numbers, imprinted in the Big Bang, determine the essential features of the physical cosmos.
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by Steven Pinker

This text answers many questions about the amazing human ability called language. It explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, including the history of language and its simulation by computer neural networks.
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by William H Calvin

This text begins by asking what intelligence is. It then moves on to the "why" of intelligence and the syntax of intelligence - where evidence from chimpanzees is important - before coming to the "how" of intelligence, the cerebral codes and Darwinian processes that operate within seconds.
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by Richard Leakey

This text provides an account of how early ape-men of the African savanna developed into fully human beings. Leakey is interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible human attributes, such as consciousness.
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by John D Barrow

What does it mean to say that the universe appeared out of "nothing"? Did it need a beginning and will it ever end? This book describes the picture of the universe gleaned from the COBE satellite data and explains how these findings allow us to shed light on the events at the dawn of time.
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by Paul Davies

How will the universe end? With a bang or a whimper? And what are the implications for us? This free-ranging account surveys the latest predictions about the ultimate fate of the universe, and assesses the profound scientific and philosophical implications.
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by Ian Stewart

Mathematics has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities in nature - the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of the weather. This book aims to equip the reader with a mathematician's eye, changing the way we view the world.
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by Peter Atkins

This is a journey of imagination in which the periodic table is treated as a country, a periodic kingdom, each region of which corresponds to an element. The book introduces the reader to the general features of the table, the history of the elements and the underlying arrangement of the table.

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by Richard Dawkins

The "river" of the title of this book is the river of information carried through time in DNA. This book describes DNA and provides an explanation of the process of evolution, as illuminated by the theory of Darwinian natural selection.
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