Science Bookshelf - Top-Selling Nonfiction Titles - NYTimes.com Little Brown. How disadvantages can work in our favor, from the author of "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers." Random House. A 13-year-old boy with autism answers questions. 3 QUIET by Susan Cain. Crown. Introverts - one-third of the population - are undervalued in American society. 4 FOCUS by Daniel Goleman. Harper. The story of an African-American woman whose cancerous cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951. The case of a New Orleans surgeon suspected of euthanizing patients during the Katrina disaster. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The winner of a Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal lives, and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions. Simon & Schuster. High-performing schools in Finland, South Korea and Poland, seen through the eyes of American high school students abroad. A Times reporter's account of the science behind forming habits, and breaking them. Pantheon. Evolution, health and disease, from the Stone Age to the present. The titles ranked here are selected by the science editors from all adult nonfiction books reported to The New York Times for the month. These titles are fundamentally based on the sciences; those for which science is more tangential or peripheral are generally excluded. Rankings reflect combined print and e-book sales for October 2013. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above.