my books

Most recent first:

Intertwined
From Insects to Icebergs
Johns Hopkins University Press 15. 10. 2024
424 pages
ISBN 9781421449975
Hardcover RRP £27.50 / $32.95
audiobook

Astrobiology: An introduction - third edition (fully revised and updated)
co-authored with Kevin W. Plaxco
Johns Hopkins University Press 3.8. 2021
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-4214-4128-3, $ 75.00, pp. 416
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-4214-4129-0, $ 34.95, pp. 416
E-book: ISBN 978-1-4214-4130-6, $34.95

Tabakschwärmer, Bücherwürmer und Turbo-Socken
Chemische Schwärmereien aus 10 Jahren Ausgeforscht.
Springer-Spektrum 21.Okt. 2019
pp. 170, ISBN: 978-3-662-59302-8,
€ , £

Arabic translation of The birds, the bees and the platypuses
Hindawi Foundation, Cairo, 26.07.2015.
available both as e-book and in a print edition.
ISBN: 978-977-768-209-1
Full details (in Arabic).

Invasion der Waschbären
und andere Expeditionen in die wilde Natur.
Wiley-VCH 17. Sept. 2014
pp. 255, ISBN: 978-3527-33668-5,
€ 24.90, £ 22.50

Astrobiologie für Einsteiger
Wiley-VCH Verlag, 19.12.2012
ISBN-10: 3527411453
ISBN-13: 978-3527411450
€ 24.90, pp ~330

Von Geckos, Garn und Goldwasser: die Nanowelt lässt grüßen
Wiley-VCH 12.09.2012
Hardback: ISBN-13 978-3527-33272-4,
€ 24.90, £ 22.50, pp 300

Astrobiology: A brief introduction - second edition (fully revised and updated)
co-authored with Kevin W. Plaxco
Johns Hopkins University Press August 2011
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-4214-0096-9
$ 30.00, pp 352
Kindle: $19.99 Hardback (library edition): ISBN 978-1-4214-0095-2
$ 70.00, pp 352

9 Millionen Fahrräder am Rande des Universums
Obskures aus Forschung und Wissenschaft.
Wiley-VCH 23.02.2011
Hardback: ISBN-13 978-3527-32917-5
€ 24.90, £ 22.50, pp 308

Der Kuss des Schnabeltiers
und 60 weitere irrwitzige Geschichten aus Natur und Wissenschaft.
Wiley-VCH 23.02.2011
Paperback: ISBN-13 978-3527-32490-3
€ 14.90, pp 278 + xi

The noughties brought to book
Book reviews 2000-2009.
Prose and Passion January 2010
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-4452-7240-5
£ 19.99, pp 153

Der Kuss des Schnabeltiers
und 60 weitere irrwitzige Geschichten aus Natur und Wissenschaft.
Wiley-VCH September 2009
Hardback: ISBN-13 978-3527-32490-3
€ 24.90, pp 278 + xi

The birds, the bees, and the platypuses
Crazy, sexy, and cool stories from science
Wiley-VCH May 2008 (EU)
J. Wiley & Sons July 2008 (US)
Hardback: ISBN: 978-3-527-32287-9
$37.50 , £ 18.99 , € 24.90, pp. 248 + xi

Astrobiology: A brief introduction
co-authored with Kevin W. Plaxco
Johns Hopkins University Press June 2006
Paperback: ISBN 0-801-88367-9
$ 24.95, pp 259
Kindle: ASIN B001TREIH4, $ 9.99
Hardback: ISBN 0-801-88366-0
$ 65.00, pp 259

La vie excentrique
Voyage dans les mondes extremes
French edition of Life on the Edge
translated by Véronique Receveur-Bréchot
preface by Patrick Forterre
Editions Belin October 2003
Paperback: ISBN 2-7011-2631-2
€ 17.00, pp 239

Was Biotronik alles kann: Blind sehen, gehörlos hören ...
co-authored with Claudia Borchard-Tuch
Wiley-VCH June 2002
Softcover: ISBN 3-5273-0381-2
ISBN(13) 9783527303816
€ 24,90, pp 280
Online book (PDF download): ISBN 9783527602704

Life on the Edge. Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments (with a new afterword)
Perseus Books January 2001
Paperback: ISBN 0-738-20445-5
$ 15.00, pp 210 + xiii
Kindle: ASIN B001LDKMCQ, $ 9.99

Travels to the Nanoworld. Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
Perseus Books January 2001
Paperback: ISBN 0-738-20444-7
$ 16.00, pp 254 + xiii
Kindle: ASIN B001LNN21E, $ 9.99

Travels to the Nanoworld. Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
Perseus Books, May 1999,
Hardback: ISBN 0-306-46008-4
$ 25.95 , pp 254 + xiii

Non-Standard Computation
Molecular Computation, Cellular Automata, Evolutionary Algorithms, Quantum Computers
with T. Gramß, S. Bornholdt, M. Mitchell, T. Pellizzari
Foreword by M. Schroeder, Introduction by H. Schuster
Wiley-VCH, May 1998
Softcover: ISBN 3-527-29427-9
€ 69.00, pp 226 + xiv

Life on the Edge. Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments
Plenum May 1998;
reprinted by Perseus Books August 1999
Hardback: ISBN 0-306-45786-5
$ 25.95, pp 200 + xiii

Exzentriker des Lebens. Zellen zwischen Hitzeschock und Kältestreß
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag May 1997
Hardback: ISBN 3-8274-0139-9
pp 302

Expeditionen in den Nanokosmos. Die technologische Revolution im Zellmaßstab
Birkhäuser Verlag October 1995
Hardback: ISBN 3-7643-5209-4
pp195

 

Books that I edited, translated, contributed to ..., i.e. those that don't have my name on the spine:

I contributed a chapter to this collection of short pieces by Wiley-VCH authors:
Expedition in die Wissenschaft
Wiley-VCH Aug. 2006,
Softcover: ISBN 3-527-31639-7
€ 19.90, pp 286

I translated and edited the book
Lust and love -- is it more than chemistry?
by Gabriele and Rolf Froböse,
Royal Society of Chemistry July 2006,
Hardback: ISBN 0-85404-867-7
£ 24.95, pp 169

I edited the German translation of this collection of lectures held to mark the 50th anniversary of Erwin Schroedinger's lecture series on "What is life?":
Was ist Leben? -- Die Zukunft der Biologie
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 1997,
Hardback: ISBN 3-8274-0120-8
pp 208