Stories by James R. Newman

An annual survey of books about science addressed to young readers

A Christmas survey of new books about science for younger readers

Experiments toward a humor of science

On the possibility of communicating with intelligent life elsewhere in the universe

A Christmas survey of new books about science for young readers

The lively story of how Neptune was discovered

Two new works on the early history of the nuclear age

Lord Russell and Erich Fromm reflect on the probability of human survival

How people lived during the flowering of Florence

About the rich lore of games played on boards and tables

Two discussions of thermonuclear war

A Christmas survey of new books about science for younger readers

Concerning the diverse lands and peoples of the world's largest desert: the Sahara

An examination of the history and the present state of science fiction

A naval officer's book on the wandering albatross, the largest of all living birds

The tortured life of Blaise Pascal, one of the great minds of all time

The tortured life of an influential modern philosopher: the late Ludwig Wittgenstein

Erwin Schrodinger discourses on the problem of mind and matter

Four approaches to the problem of preventing a third world war

A conference on abortion as a disease of societies

About the life and work of Sir Arthur Eddington

A study on the nature of scientific discovery

An Australian symposium on war as a disease of societies

The argument of a physicist who does not accept the uncertainty principle