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1	The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe more books like this by George Ochoa, Jeffrey M Osier How-to-do-it reference shows SF writers how to use science to create plausible, imaginative and self-consistent worlds. Describes contemporary science, plus scientific conventions already established. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.40! \| first editions
2	The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films more books like this by Lois H Gresh, Robert Weinberg This book examines the science behind the gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world's greatest spy. From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets, nails, and passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat-seeking missile, the science and technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science more books like this by N Katherine Hayles (Editor) The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $11.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry more books like this by Gary Paul Nabhan A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
5	The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France more books like this by Harriet Stone Literature has its own strategies for ordering information. In this elegant and insightful book about the formation of knowledge in seventeenth-century France, Harriet Stone asks what those strategies conveyed about the limits of science and about the cultural environment of the period. A propensity for reason and control pervaded literature as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95!
6	Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art more books like this by Ruthven Todd see all copies from $3.50! signed copies \| first editions
7	Discourses in America more books like this by Matthew Arnold This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $19.03! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction more books like this by George Levine Darwin's theory thrust human life into time and nature and subjected it to naturalistic rather than spiritual or moral analysis. Insisting on gradual and regular-lawful-change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phenomena. George Levine shows how these conceptions ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $28.25! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch, 1590-1950 more books like this by Douglas Bush see all copies from $2.95! first editions \| SVS
10	Literature and Science more books like this by Aldous Huxley In these reflections on the relations between art and science, Huxley attempts to discern the similarities and differences implicit in scientific and literary language, and he offers his opinions on the influence that each discipline exerts upon the other. see all copies from $2.31! new only from $32.83! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Natural Classicism: Essays on Literature and Science more books like this by Frederick Jackson Turner This book presents Turner's exploration of - and attempt to integrate - principles of literature, art, music, biology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics and aesthetics. It is Turner's contention that a non-reductive reconciliation of disciplines is possible, and he proposes a new "great chain of being" that is "evolutionary and dynamic, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Measured Word more books like this by Kurt Brown (Editor) Essays of discovery on the curious relationship - and fascinating debate - between science and poetry Though the interests of science and art frequently seem to inhabit opposite poles, The Measured Word assembles a brilliant anthology of twelve essays that illumine the historic - and evolving - relationships between the poetic and scientific ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $29.94! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 more books like this by Robert A. Erickson In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a feminized body; in Paradise Lost, it is through the protracted rape and violation of Eve's heart that the Fall of Man occurs; nearly a century later Samuel Richardson's Clarissa would present a no ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe more books like this by Carla Mazzio (Editor), Professor David Hillman (Editor) Examines how the body - its organs, limbs, viscera - was represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. Why did 16th and 17th century medical, religious, and literary texts portray the body part by part, rather than as an entity? And what does this view of the human body tell us about society's view of part and whole, of ... see all copies from $24.16! new only from $24.16!
15 view cover	Thomas Huxley more books like this by Paul White, David Knight (Editor), Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Editor) Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic patronage. Yet from the 1850s until his death in 1895, ... see all copies from $3.94! new only from $3.94! \| first editions
16 view cover	Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics more books like this by Professor Laura Otis "[Holmes] is an amateur of crime, as I am of disease. For him the villain, for me the microbe."--Culverton Smith in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Dying Detective Between 1830 and 1930, improvements in microscopes made it possible for scientists to describe the nature and behavior of cells. Although Robert Hooke had seen cells more ... see all copies from $2.14! new only from $2.14! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative more books like this by Jonathan Gottschall (Editor), Prof. David Sloan Wilson (Editor), Frederick Crews (Foreword by) In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that promises-or threatens-to profoundly shift the current paradigm. This revolutionary approach, known as Darwinian literary studies, is based on a few simple premises: ... see all copies from $29.05! new only from $29.05! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining the Science Behind the Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told! more books like this by Henry Gee Henry Gee, Senior editor for what many have called the most important magazine in science today - Nature - has written a spellbinding, fun, and accessible book explaining the scientific basis for how all that wizardy, sorcery, and magic really works in JRR Tolkien's fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings and his other fictional books featuring Middle ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $8.71! \| first editions \| SVS
19	One Culture: Essays Sci/Lit more books like this by George Levine (Editor), Alan Rauch (Photographer) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.09! \| first editions \| SVS
20	The Orphic Voice : poetry and natural history more books like this by Elizabeth Sewell see all copies from $19.99! first editions
21 view cover	Transgressive Readings: The Texts of Franz Kafka and Max Planck more books like this by Valerie D Greenberg Argues for a critical awareness of language across the boundaries of disciplines see all copies from $3.50! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth more books like this by Laura Dassow Walls see all copies from $6.20! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky more books like this by David H Levy Over the centuries the starry night sky has inspired poets and scientists alike, and though the fruits of these inspirations take very different forms, they often enrich each other. Acclaimed science writer David Levy, the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, has written this wonderful jewel of a book to celebrate the complementary visions of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.47! \| SVS
24 view cover	Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science more books like this by Ronald R Thomas This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and ... see all copies from $21.68! new only from $33.62! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Melancholies of Knowledge: Literature in the Age of Science more books like this by Margery A Safir (Editor) Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, this book includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio. Contributors include Stephen Jay Gould, world-renowned biologist and best-selling science writer; James Ritter, editor of the Einstein papers, physicist, and historian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions

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