ROBERT KANIGEL


Books Written

FAUX REAL: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
-- A much-loved natural material and its man-made imitators.
HIGH SEASON: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years
-- A popular history of tourism through the lens of Nice, France
THE ONE BEST WAY: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
-- The man who taught us not to stop and smell the roses
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
-- A rags to intellectual riches story of genius incarnate.
APPRENTICE TO GENIUS: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty
-- Masters and apprentices among elite scientists



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Bibliography

FAUX REAL: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
Joseph Henry Press, 2007

Scientific American Book Club selection

Selected Reviews: Publishers Weekly online, Library Journal, Chemical Heritage, World Leather, Technology Review

HIGH SEASON: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years
Viking hardcover, 2002
UK hardcover [High Season in Nice] Little, Brown, 2002
UK paperback, Abacus, 2003

Newsweek, Best Beach Reads, 2002
Chicago Tribune, Summer Choice, 2002

Selected reviews: New York Times Book Review, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Sunday Telegraph (U.K), Sunday Times (U.K.), Daily Mail (U.K.), Spectator (U.K.), Time (U.K. edition), Irish Times (Ireland)


THE ONE BEST WAY: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Viking hardcover, 1997
U.K. hardcover, Little, Brown 1997
Penguin paperback, 1999
U.K. paperback, Abacus, 2000
MIT Press paperback, 2005

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Technology Book Series, 1997
Business Week, Best Business Books of 1997
Library Journal, Best Business Books, 1997
Amazon.com, Top 10 Biographies of 1997
New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of the Year, 1997
Global Business Book Awards (Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton), finalist, biography, 1998
Basis for PBS Special Stopwatch, Kikim Media & Quest Productions, first aired 7 November 1999

Selected reviews: New York Times Book Review [front page], New York Times [daily], New Leader, Civilization, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Journal of Economic History, The American Enterprise, Commentary, New York Review of Books, Nature, Reason, New Republic, Times Higher Education Supplement [U.K.], New Scientist [U.K.], Journal of American History, Technology and Culture, Labor History, Isis, Science


THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Scribner's hardcover, 1991
U.K. hardcover, Scribner's, 1991
Washington Square Press paperback, 1992
U.K. paperback, Abacus, 1992
Indian edition, Rupa, 1992
German edition, Vieweg Verlag, 1993
Cassette book, National Library for the Blind, 1993
Japanese edition, Kousakusha, 1994
Korean edition, Science Books, 2000
Chinese edition, Philosopher's Stone Series, 2002
Italian edition, Rizzoli, 2003
Thai edition, Matichon, 2007
Audio edition, Blackstone Audio, 2007

Book-of-the-Month Club selection
Quality Paperback Book Club selection
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, 1992
Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, 1991
Library Journal, Best Sci-Tech Books of 1991
New York Public Library, Book to Remember, 1991
New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of the Year, 1991
Film option held by Matt Brown/Edward R. Pressman

Selected reviews: Kirkus (starred), Publisher's Weekly, Booklist (starred), New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Byte, Science, Indian Express (India), New Scientist, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Mathematical Monthly, The Independent (U.K.), Times Literary Supplement (U.K.), Far Eastern Economic Review, American Scientist, Isis, Sewanee Review


APPRENTICE TO GENIUS: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty
Macmillan hardcover, 1986
Johns Hopkins University Press paperback, 1993
Taiwanese edition, Commonwealth Publishing, 1998
Chinese edition, Philosopher's Stone Series, 2001

Library of Science Book Club selection
Library Journal, Best Sci-Tech Books of 1986

Selected reviews: Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, The Scientist, Chemical and Engineering News, Isis, Bioscience, Science, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature


VINTAGE READING: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books
Bancroft Press, 1998

Literary Guild featured alternate

Selected reviews: Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Washington Post Book World, Book Report, Cleveland Plain Dealer




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