by Isaac Asimov
JUKES, JOHN. Man-Made Sun. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1959.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns. New York: Harcourt. Brace. 1958.
PURCELL. JOHN. The Best-Kept Secret. New York: Vanguard Press. 1963.
RIEDMAN, SARAH R. Men and Women behind the Atom. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1958.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, eds. Atomic Power. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1955.
WILSON. ROBERT R.; and LITTAUER, R. Accelerators. New York: Doubleday. 1960.
Chapter 11: The Molecule
FIESER, L. F.; and FIESER, M. Organic Chemistry. Boston: D. C. Heath. 1956.
GIBBS, F. W. Organic Chemistry Today. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1961.
HUTTON. KENNETH. Chemistry. New York: Penguin Books. 1957.
PAULING, LINUS. The Nature of the Chemical Bond (3rd ed.). Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1960.
PAULING, LINUS; and HAYWARD, R. The Architecture of Molecules. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1964.
Chapter 12: The Proteins
ASIMOV, ISAAC. Photosynthesis. New York: Basic Books, 1969.
BALJ)WIN, ERNEST. Dynamic Aspects of Biochemistry (5th ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
BALDWIN, ERNEST. The Nature of Biochemistry. New York: Cambridge University Press,) 962.
HARPER, HAROLD A. Review of Physiological Chemistry (8th ed.). Los Altos, Calif.: Lange Medical Publications, 1961.
KAMEN, MARTIN D. Isotopic Tracers in Biology. New York: Academic Press, 1957.
KARLSON, P. Introduction to Modern Biochemistry. New York: Academic Press, 1963.
LEHNINGER, ALBERT L. Biochemistry (2nd ed.), New York: Worth Publishers, 1975.
LEHNINGER, ALBERT L. Bioenergetics. New York: Benjamin Company, 1965.
Chapter 13: The Cell
ANFINSEN, CHRISTIAN B. The Molecular Basis of Evolution. New York: John Wiley, 1959.
ASIMOV, ISAAC. Extraterrestrial Civilizations. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
ASIMOV, ISAAC. The Genetic Code. New York: Orion Press, 1962.
ASIMOV, ISAAC. A Short History of Biology. New York: Doubleday, 1964.
BUTLER, J. A. V. Inside the Living Cell. New York: Basic Books, 1959.
CARR, DONALD E. The Deadly Feast of Life. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
FEINBERG, GERALD; and SHAPIRO, ROBERT. Life Beyond Earth. New York: William Morrow, 1980.
HARTMAN, P. E.; and SUSKIND, S. R. Gene Action. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
HUGHES, ARTHUR. A History of Cytology. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1959.
NEEL, J. V.; and SCHULL, W. J. Human Heredity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
OPARIN, A. I. The Origin of Life on the Earth. New York: Academic Press, 1957.
SINGER, CHARLES. A Short History of Anatomy and Physiology from the Greeks to Harvey. New York: Dover Publications, 1957.
SULLIVAN, WALTER. We Are Not Alone. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
TAYLOR, GORDON R. The Science of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.
WALKER, KENNETH. Human Physiology. New York: Penguin Books, 1956.
Chapter 14: The Microorganism
BURNET, F. M. Viruses and Man (2nd ed.), Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1955.
CURTIS, HELENA. The Viruses. Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1965.
DE KRUIF, PAUL. Microbe Hunters. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932.
DUBOS, RENE. Louis Pasteur. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.
LUDOVICI, L. J. The World of the Microscope. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1959.
McGRADY, PAT. The Savage Cell. New York: Basic Books, 1964.
RIEDMAN, SARAH R. Shots without Guns. Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1960.
SINGER, CHARLES; and UNDERWOOD, E. ASHWORTH. A Short History of Medicine (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.
SMITH, KENNETH M. Beyond the Microscope. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1957.
WILLIAMS, GREER. Virus Hunters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
ZINSSER, HANS. Rats, Lice and History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.
Chapter 15: The Body
ASIMOV, ISAAC. The Human Body. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.
CARLSON, ANTON J.; and JOHNSON, VICTOR. The Machinery of the Body. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
CHANEY, MARGARETS. Nutrition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
MCCOLLUM, ELMER VERNER. A History of Nutrition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
SMITH, ANTHONY. The Body. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968.
TANNAHILL, REAY. Food in History. New York: Stein & Day, 1973.
WILLIAMS, ROGER J. Nutrition in a Nutshell. New York: Doubleday, 1962.
WILLIAMS, SUE RODWELL. Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1974.
Chapter 16: The Species
ASIMOV, ISAAC. Wellsprings of Life. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1960.
BOULE, M.; and VALLOIS, H. V. Fossil Men. New York: Dryden Press, 1957.
CALVIN, MELVIN. Chemical Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
CAMPBELL, BERNARD. Human Evolution (2nd ed.). Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1974.
CARRINGTON, RICHARD. A Biography of the Sea. New York: Basic Books, 1960.
DARWIN, FRANCIS, ed. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (2 vols.). New York: Basic Books, 1959.
DE BELL, G. The Environmental Handbook. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.
EHRLICH, PAUL; and EHRLICH, ANN. Extinction. New York: Random House, 1981.
HANRAHAN, JAMES S.; and BUSHNELL, DAVID. Space Biology. New York: Basic Books, 1960.
HARRISON, R. J. Man, the Peculiar Animal. New York: Penguin Books, 1958.
HEPPENHEIMER, T. A. Colonies in Space. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1977.
HOWELLS, WILLIAM. Mankind in the Making. New York: Doubleday, 1959.
HUXLEY, T. H. Man’s Place in Nature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959.
LEWONTIN, RICHARD. Human Diversity. New York: Scientific American Library, 1982.
MEDAWAR, P. B. The Future of Man. New York: Basic Books, 1960.
MILNE, L. J.; and MILNE, M. J. The Biotic World and Man. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1958.
MONTAGU, ASHLEY. The Science of Man. New York: Odyssey Press, 1964.
MOORE, RUTH. Man, Time, and Fossils (2nd ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
O’NEILL, GERARD K. 2081. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
ROMER, A. S. Man and the Vertebrates (2 vols.). New York: Penguin Books, 1954.
ROSTAND, JEAN. Can Man Be Modified? New York: Basic Books, 1959.
SAX, KARL. Standing Room Only. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
SIMPSON, GEORGE G.; PRITENDRIGH, C. S.; and TIFFANY, L. H. Life: An Introduction to College Biology (2nd ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1965.
TAYLOR, GORDON RATTRAY. The Doomsday Book. New York: World Publishing, 1970.
TINBERGEN, NIKO. Curious Naturalists. New York: Basic Books, 1960.
UBBELOHDE, A. R. Man and Energy. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1963.
Chapter 17: The Mind
ASIMOV, ISAAC. The Human Brain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
BERKELEY, EDMUND C. Symbolic Logic and Intelligent Machines. New York: Reinhold Publishing, 1959.
EVANS, CHRISTOPHER. The Making of the Micro, A History of the Computer. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.
FACKLAM, MARGERY; and FACKLAM, HOWARD. The Brain. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982.
GARDNER, HOWARD. Frames of Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
GOULD, STEPHEN JAY. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.
JONES, ERNEST. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (3 vols.). New York: Basic Books, 1957.
LASSEK, A. M. The Human Brain. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1957.
MENNINGER, KARL. Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique. New York: Basic Books, 1958.
MURPHY, GARDNER. Human Potentialities. New York: Basic Books, 1958.
RAWCLIFFE, D. H. Illusions an
d Delusions of the Supernatural and Occult. New York: Dover Publications, 1959.
SANDERS, DONALD H. Computers Today. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, eds. Automatic Control. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.
SCOTT, JOHN PAUL. Animal Behavior. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
THOMPSON, CLARA; and MULLAHY, PATRICK. Psychoanalysis: Evolution and Development. New York: Grove Press, 1950.
Appendix: Mathematics in Science
COURANT, RICHARD; and ROBBINS, HERBERT. What Is Mathematics? New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.
DANTZIG, TOBIAS. Number, the Language of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
FELIX, LUCIENNE. The Modern Aspect of Mathematics. New York: Basic Books, 1960.
FREUND, JOHN E. A Modern Introduction to Mathematics. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1956.
KLINE, MORRIS. Mathematics and the Physical World. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1959.
KLINE, MORRIS. Mathematics in Western Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.
NEWMAN, JAMES R. The World of Mathematics (4 vols.), New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.
STEIN, SHERMAN K. Mathematics, the Man-Made Universe. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1963.
VALENS, EVANS G. The Number of Things. New York: Dutton, 1964.
* Yes, the author of this book.