Great Discoveries is a 15-book series with 15 released primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Sherwin B. Nuland, David Foster Wallace, ديفيد فوستر والاس, Michio Kaku, Rebecca Goldstein, Madison Smartt Bell, Barbara Goldsmith, باربارا جولدسميث, David Quammen, David Leavitt, Michael D. Lemonick, and Lawrence M. Krauss.