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title: "The Worlds of Science"
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The Worlds of Science is a series of science book paperbacks by various authors published by Pyramid Books in the 1960s. The series included both reprints of works originally published independently and new works written especially for the series. Prominent contributors included Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp, among others.
Books in the series include:

The Human Brain, by John Pfeifer
Maya, by Charles Gallenkamp
Nine Planets, by Alan E. Nourse
Living Earth, by Peter Farb
Chemistry Creates a New World, by Bernard Jaffe
The Road to Man, by Herbert Wendt
Giants of Science, by Philip Cane
Snakes of the World, by Raymond Ditmars
The ABC of Physics, by Jerome S. Meyer
Computers, by Stanley L. Englebardt
Man and Dolphin, by John C. Lilly
Kingdom of the Octopus, by Frank W. Lane
Dinosaurs, by Nicholas Hotton III
The Story of Weather, by Capt. David C. Holmes, USN
Fact and Fancy, by Isaac Asimov
Electronics, by Stanley L. Englebardt
Conquest of the Moon, by William Hines
Elephant, by L. Sprague de Camp
New Worlds of Oceanography, by Captain John E. Long
New Frontiers in Medicine, by Stanley Englebardt
The Human Machine, by Harry Moody
The Borders of Mathematics, by Willy Ley
Volcanoes and Earthquakes, by Elliott B. Roberts


== References ==