Books to read

Books which look interesting:

• The little book of the big bang: A cosmic primer. Craig Hogan. Copernicus (Springer-Verlag), NY, 1998, 181 pp, US$20, ISBN 0-387-98385-6. Reviewed by Ruth Daly in Physics Today, 1999 Jan, p. 69
• The new world of Mr. Tompkins. George Gamow & Russell Stannard. Cambridge U.P., New York, 1999, 258 pp, US$24.95, ISBN 0-521-63009-6. Reviewed by Daniel Greenberger in Physics Today, 2000 Jun, p. 57
• Nine crazy ideas in science: A few might even be true. Robert Ehrlich. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 2001, 244 pp, US$24.95. Reviewed by William Ingham in Physics Today 2002 Feb, pp. 56-57
• The universe in a nutshell. Stephen Hawking. Bantam, NY, 2001, 224 pp, US$35. Reviewed by Chris Impey in Physics Today, 2002 Apr, p. 80
• Things a computer scientist rarely talks about. Donald Knuth. CSLI Publications, Stanford (CA), 2001, 257 pp, US$35.00. Reviewed by Saul Teukolsky in Physics Today 2002 Apr, pp. 81-82