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Title	Author	Description
The Scientist as Rebel Scientist as Rebel	Freeman Dyson Dyson	An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls "one of the world's most original minds."
The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Bog People	P.V. Glob Glob	Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics Reckless Mind	Mark Lilla Lilla	How can intellectuals, who should be alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take positions that, implicitly or not, endorse oppression and human suffering on a vast scale?
Hidden Histories of Science Hidden Histories of Science (paperback)	Robert B. Silvers Silvers	These essays demonstrate that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too."
Health Wars: On the Global Front Lines of Modern Medicine Health Wars	Richard Horton Horton	Can trust between doctors and patients survive in an age of intensive scientific research, managed health care, and the Internet?
The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin Legacy of Isaiah Berlin	Mark Lilla, Ronald Dworkin, Robert B. Silvers Silvers	The papers given at the New York Institute for the Humanities conference collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism.
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions It Ain't Necessarily So (paperback)	Richard C. Lewontin Lewontin	"Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." (Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review)
The Waste Books Waste Books	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Lichtenberg	The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought. Contributors: R.J. Hollingdale
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions It Ain't Necessarily So (hardcover)	Richard C. Lewontin Lewontin	"Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." —Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Memoirs of My Nervous Illness	Daniel Paul Schreber Schreber	The wonderful Schreber . . . ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital. — Sigmund Freud Contributors: Rosemary Dinnage