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Review Index, 2000

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A Friendship's Fission

Science 14 April 2000; 288 (5464): 278
Creating Copenhagen. A Symposium (Presented by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Ensemble Theater/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project, 27 March 2000)
reviewed by David Voss
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Science, Art, and Dinosaurs

Science 20 October 2000; 290 (5491): 460
Dinosaur Imagery. The Science of Lost Worlds and Jurassic Art. The Lanzendorf Collection (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by Lawrence M. Witmer
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The Heavens in a Jewel Box

Science 25 August 2000; 289 (5483): 1304
Rose Center for Earth and Space (American Museum of Natural History, New York)
reviewed by Jay M. Pasachoff
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Wet and Wild

Science 11 August 2000; 289 (5481): 877
The Wetland Centre (The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, London)
reviewed by Sandra Knapp
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
The Two-Mile Time Machine. Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Do We Have to Count One by One?

Science 14 January 2000; 287 (5451): 239
Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America, by Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Thomas R. Belin
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Browsings

Science 1 December 2000; 290 (5497): 1705
Under Southern Seas. The Ecology of Australia's Rocky Reefs, by Neil Andrew, Ed. (Krieger, Malabar, FL, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Seven Scientists Up Close

Science 10 November 2000; 290 (5494): 1103
Me and Isaac Newton, by Michael Apted, Director (First Look Pictures, Los Angeles, 2000)
reviewed by David Voss
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Fade to Black?

Science 8 December 2000; 290 (5498): 1901
State of the Planet, by David Attenborough, Director (BBC1, London, November, 2000)
reviewed by Andrew Sugden
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Bohr the Innovator? Or Bohr the Intimidator?

Science 24 March 2000; 287 (5461): 2166
Quantum Dialogue. The Making of a Revolution, by Mara Beller (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999)
reviewed by Daniel Greenberger
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On E. O. Wilson and His Religious Vision

Science 3 November 2000; 290 (5493): 943
Life is a Miracle. An Essay Against Modern Superstition, by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, Washington, DC, 2000)
reviewed by Michael Ruse
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Browsings

Science 3 November 2000; 290 (5493): 944b
The Coiled Spring. How Life Begins, by Ethan Bier (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 1 December 2000; 290 (5497): 1706b
To Vote or Not to Vote. The Merits and Limits of Rational Choice Theory, by André Blais (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Sainthood Confirmed

Science 3 March 2000; 287 (5458): 1599
William Osler. A Life in Medicine, by Michael Bliss (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Ronald L. Numbers
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Blue Book Value

Science 6 October 2000; 290 (5489): 57
Nabokov's Butterflies. Unpublished and Uncollected Writings, by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, Eds. (Beacon, Boston, 2000)
reviewed by May Berenbaum
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Connections Through a Matrix

Science 7 April 2000; 288 (5463): 61a
Proofs and Confirmations. The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, by David M. Bressoud (Cambridge University Press, New York, and Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1999)
reviewed by Herbert S. Wilf
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Learning by Text or Context?

Science 17 November 2000; 290 (5495): 1304
The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2000)
reviewed by Bruce R. Schatz
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Plant Biology at Center Stage

Science 27 October 2000; 290 (5492): 719
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, by Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell L. Jones, Eds. (American Society of Plant Physiologists, Rockville, MD, 2000)
reviewed by Hans Kende
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How the Brain Made Language

Science 14 July 2000; 289 (5477): 251
Lingua ex Machina. Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain, by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Michael T. Ullman
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The Context of Our Genetic History

Science 7 July 2000; 289 (5476): 62
Genes, Peoples, and Languages, by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (North Point Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by David B. Goldstein
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Many Facets of a Noble Dane

Science 31 March 2000; 287 (5462): 2428
On Tycho's Island. Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601, by John Robert Christianson (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Nicholas Jardine
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Views of the Final Frontier

Science 24 March 2000; 287 (5461): 2167
Cosmos. From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, by Jean Clair, chief curator, and Pierre Théberge, director (At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 17 June to 17 October 1999; Centre de Cultura Contemporŕnia de Barcelona, 24 November 1999 to 27 February 2000; Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 25 March to 23 July 2000)
reviewed by Jay M. Pasachoff
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Views of the Final Frontier

Science 24 March 2000; 287 (5461): 2167
Cosmos. From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, by Jean Clair, Ed. (Prestel, for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Jay M. Pasachoff
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
Lucifer's Legacy. The Meaning of Asymmetry, by Frank Close (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2079b
Tools of Vision. Photographs of Telescopes and Particle Accelerators, by Neelon Crawford (An exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 26 September 2000 to 15 January 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 6 October 2000; 290 (5489): 59b
Bembo's Zoo. An Animal ABC Book, by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich (Henry Holt, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Two Views of a Star's Life

Science 7 January 2000; 287 (5450): 46
Carl Sagan. A Life, by Keay Davidson (John Wiley, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Clark R. Chapman
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A Fruitful Fungus

Science 1 December 2000; 290 (5497): 1706a
Neurospora. Contributions of a Model Organism, by Rowland H. Davis (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by David E. A. Catcheside
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Voluminous, Varied, and Vital

Science 23 June 2000; 288 (5474): 2138a
Plant Cell Vacuoles. An Introduction, by Deepesh N. De (CSIRO, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 2000)
reviewed by Natasha V. Raikhel
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
A World of Babies. Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies, by Judy DeLoache and Alma Gottlieb (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama

Science 22 December 2000; 290 (5500): 2263
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, by Apostolos Doxiadis (Bloomsbury USA, New York, 2000)
reviewed by David Foster Wallace
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Stirred, Not Shaken

Science 1 December 2000; 290 (5497): 1703
The Sokal Hoax. The Sham That Shook the Academy, by The Editors of Lingua Franca, Eds. (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2000)
reviewed by Ullica Segerstrĺle
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How We Got Here and Where We Are Going

Science 10 November 2000; 290 (5494): 1102a
Human Natures. Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect, by Paul R. Ehrlich (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2000)
reviewed by Mark Ridley
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Browsings

Science 15 September 2000; 289 (5486): 1883b
Chromatic Fantasy. Leaves in the Midst of Change, by Thomas Eisner (Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Spiraling Storm Systems

Science 21 January 2000; 287 (5452): 434
Hurricanes of the North Atlantic. Climate and Society, by James B. Elsner and A. Birol Kara (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Charles J. Neumann
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Browsings

Science 14 April 2000; 288 (5464): 279
Sexing the Body. Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, by Anne Fausto-Sterling (Basic Books, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Fossils, G-Men, Money, and Museums

Science 8 September 2000; 289 (5485): 1695
Tyrannosaurus Sue. The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest Most Fought Over T. rex Ever Found, by Steve Fiffer (Freeman, New York, 2000)
reviewed by John Pojeta Jr.
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Varied Fates from Similar States

Science 3 November 2000; 290 (5493): 944a
Chance, Development, and Aging, by Caleb E. Finch and Thomas B. L. Kirkwood (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Steven Austad
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Browsings

Science 7 April 2000; 288 (5463): 62
Minds Behind the Brain. A History of a Pioneers and Their Discoveries, by Stanley Finger (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 December 2000; 290 (5498): 1900b
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie. The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao (Fourth Estate, London, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 December 2000; 290 (5498): 1900b
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie. The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao (Broadway Books, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Selling a Dream Defense

Science 21 July 2000; 289 (5478): 397
Way Out There in the Blue. Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Andrew M. Sessler
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Wandering Genes

Science 22 September 2000; 289 (5487): 2057
Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution, by Alan Fix (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Marta Mirazón Lahr
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A Fondness for "Beetles of the Paleozoic"

Science 6 October 2000; 290 (5489): 59a
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey (Harper Collins, London, 2000)
reviewed by Allison R. Palmer
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A Fondness for "Beetles of the Paleozoic"

Science 6 October 2000; 290 (5489): 59a
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey (Knopf, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Allison R. Palmer
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A Friendship's Fission

Science 14 April 2000; 288 (5464): 278
Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn (Opening at the Royale Theatre, New York, 11 April 2000. Continuing at the Duchess Theatre, London)
reviewed by David Voss
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Looking for Balance

Science 15 September 2000; 289 (5486): 1883a
The Environmental Pendulum. A Quest for the Truth about Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection, by R. Allan Freeze (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000)
reviewed by Rena I. Steinzor
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Browsings

Science 7 April 2000; 288 (5463): 62
The Governance of Science. Ideology and the Future of the Open Society, by Steve Fuller (Open University Press, Buckingham, UK, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 17 March 2000; 287 (5460): 1936
The Great Auk, by Errol Fuller (Abrams, New York, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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Counter-Revolutionary Kuhn?

Science 9 June 2000; 288 (5472): 1755
Thomas Kuhn. A Philosophical History for Our Times, by Steve Fuller (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000)
reviewed by Joseph Rouse
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects, by Martin Gardner (Norton, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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The Essential Anti-Essentialist

Science 24 November 2000; 290 (5496): 1511
Available Light. Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, by Clifford Geertz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Richard A. Shweder
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Playing for Keeps

Science 13 October 2000; 290 (5490): 281
Game Theory Evolving. A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction, by Herbert Gintis (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Karl Sigmund and Martin A. Nowak
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Cancer Research by Way of Metaphor

Science 9 June 2000; 288 (5472): 1756
Cancer. The Evolutionary Legacy, by Mel Greaves (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by John Cairns
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Solving the Sverdlovsk Mystery

Science 4 February 2000; 287 (5454): 812
Anthrax. The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak, by Jeanne Guillemin (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)
reviewed by Jonathan B. Tucker
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
Wild Minds. What Animals Really Think, by Marc D. Hauser (Holt, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 28 April 2000; 288 (5466): 625b
Worlds Without End. The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life, by R. A. S. Hennessey (Tempus, Charleston, SC, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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Before the Fall of the Wall

Science 18 February 2000; 287 (5456): 1210
Science Under Socialism. East Germany in Comparative Perspective, by Dieter Hoffmann and Kristie Macrakis, Eds. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by Joachim Sauer
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The Big Bang's Radical Brother

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2079a
A Different Approach to Cosmology. From a Static Universe Through the Big Bang Towards Reality, by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Jayant V. Narlikar (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by David W. Hogg and Matias Zaldarriaga
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Origins of Trade-offs in Maternal Care

Science 21 January 2000; 287 (5452): 433
Mother Nature. A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Pantheon, New York, 1999)
reviewed by A. Magdalena Hurtado
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Wondrous Senses

Science 18 February 2000; 287 (5456): 1211
Sensory Exotica. A World Beyond Human Experience, by Howard C. Hughes (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by Richard Gregory
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Pushing Buffalo to the Brink

Science 22 September 2000; 289 (5487): 2056
The Destruction of the Bison. An Environmental History, 1750-1920, by Andrew C. Isenberg (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by James E. Sherow
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How Cannabis Acts

Science 16 June 2000; 288 (5473): 1972
The Science of Marijuana, by Leslie L. Iversen (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by Steven R. Childers
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Instruments of the Revolution

Science 3 March 2000; 287 (5458): 1598
Ingenious Pursuits. Building the Scientific Revolution, by Lisa Jardine (Nan A. Talese, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Steven Shapin
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Blue Book Value

Science 6 October 2000; 290 (5489): 57
Nabokov's Blues. The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates (Zoland, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by May Berenbaum
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Facets of Faces

Science 18 August 2000; 289 (5482): 1146
Defining Features. Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000, by Ludmilla Jordanova, Curator (National Portrait Gallery, London)
reviewed by Brandon Brame Fortune
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Facets of Faces

Science 18 August 2000; 289 (5482): 1146
Defining Features. Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000, by Ludmilla Jordanova (Reaktion Books, in association with the National Portrait Gallery, London, 2000)
reviewed by Brandon Brame Fortune
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A Feast Without Recipes

Science 17 November 2000; 290 (5495): 1305a
The Cambridge World History of Food, by Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneč Ornelas, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by John Emsley
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Browsings

Science 10 November 2000; 290 (5494): 1102b
On the Road of the Winds. An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact, by Patrick Vinton Kirch (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Dreams of Arctic Tea Plantations

Science 10 March 2000; 287 (5459): 1761
Linnaeus. Nature and Nation, by Lisbet Koerner (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by Londa Schiebinger
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Attending Marvels

Science 8 December 2000; 290 (5498): 1900a
George Gaylord Simpson. Paleontologist and Evolutionist, by Léo F. Laporte (Columbia University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Niles Eldredge
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Browsings

Science 14 April 2000; 288 (5464): 279
Tropical Forest Ecology. A View from Barro Colorado Island, by Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 December 2000; 290 (5498): 1900b
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, by Simon A. Levin, Ed. (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Big Synapse Stories

Science 25 February 2000; 287 (5457): 1405
The Squid Giant Synapse. A Model for Chemical Transmission, by Rodolfo R. Llinás (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999)
reviewed by George J. Augustine
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A Map of Babel

Science 21 April 2000; 288 (5465): 446
n01se. A Series of Exhibitions About Information and Transformation, by Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer, Curators (Kettle's Yard, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 22 January to 26 March 2000. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 18 January to 16 April. The Wellcome Trust's Two10 Gallery, London, 27 January to 19 May)
reviewed by Trevor W. Robbins
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A Map of Babel

Science 21 April 2000; 288 (5465): 446
n01se. Universal Language, Pattern Recognition, Data Synaesthetics, by Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer, Eds. (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 2000)
reviewed by Trevor W. Robbins
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Iron in the Soul

Science 27 October 2000; 290 (5492): 718
An Odd Kind of Fame. Stories of Phineas Gage, by Malcolm Macmillan (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by John C. Marshall
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Before the Fall of the Wall

Science 18 February 2000; 287 (5456): 1210
Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der DDR, by Kristie Macrakis and Dieter Hoffmann, Eds. (Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1997)
reviewed by Joachim Sauer
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Of Tuna and Tonnaroti

Science 11 August 2000; 289 (5481): 876
Mattanza. Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily, by Theresa Maggio (Perseus, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Barbara A. Block
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Learning from the Dead

Science 16 June 2000; 288 (5473): 1971a
Taphonomy. A Process Approach, by Ronald E. Martin (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Karl W. Flessa
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Ancient Reasons for Monsters

Science 19 May 2000; 288 (5469): 1180
The First Fossil Hunters. Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, by Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Mott T. Greene
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
Something New Under the Sun. An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, by John R. McNeill (Norton, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Frontline View of an Invasion

Science 10 March 2000; 287 (5459): 1762
Killer Algae. The True Tale of a Biological Invasion, by Alexandre Meinesz (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999)
reviewed by Josep-Maria Gili
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Browsings

Science 14 April 2000; 288 (5464): 279
The Sanitary City. Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present, by Martin V. Melosi (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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A Framework for Melittology

Science 20 October 2000; 290 (5491): 461
The Bees of the World, by Charles D. Michener (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000)
reviewed by David W. Roubik
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Sex on the Brain

Science 1 September 2000; 289 (5484): 1478
The Mating Mind. How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, by Geoffrey F. Miller (Doubleday, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Catherine Marler
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Knowledge to Heal, Knowledge to Injure

Science 28 January 2000; 287 (5453): 598
Undue Risk. Secret State Experiments on Humans, by Jonathan Moreno (Freeman, New York, 1999)
reviewed by M. Susan Lindee
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Tools for Thinking

Science 17 March 2000; 287 (5460): 1935b
Models as Mediators. Perspectives on Natural and Social Science, by Mary S. Morgan and Margaret Morrison, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999)
reviewed by Peter Imhof
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The Nanotechnician's Baedeker

Science 2 June 2000; 288 (5471): 1596
Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, by Hari Singh Nalwa, Ed. (Academic Press, San Diego, 1999)
reviewed by Phillip D. Szuromi
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Professor Newton's Principles

Science 21 April 2000; 288 (5465): 447
Thinking About Physics, by Roger G. Newton (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Chris Quigg
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
The Mysteries Within. A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths, by Sherwin B. Nuland (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 7 April 2000; 288 (5463): 62
Life and Death on Mt. Everest. Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering, by Sherry B. Ortner (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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Unreal Science

Science 2 June 2000; 288 (5471): 1595a
Voodoo Science. The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert Park (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Kenneth R. Foster
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Tales of a Talented Bird

Science 11 February 2000; 287 (5455): 980
The Alex Studies. Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots, by Irene Maxine Pepperberg (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by Edward Kako
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Browsings

Science 1 December 2000; 290 (5497): 1706b
The Neurospora Compendium. Chromosomal Loci, by David D. Perkins, Alan Radford, and Matthew S. Sachs (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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All Kinds of Bubbles

Science 21 July 2000; 289 (5478): 398
Universal Foam. From Cappuccino to the Cosmos, by Sidney Perkowitz (Walker and Company, New York, 2000)
reviewed by G. C. Barker
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If You Build It, Will It Know?

Science 28 April 2000; 288 (5466): 624
Understanding Intelligence, by Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by Arthur B. Markman
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Why Do Kids Say Goed and Brang?

Science 7 January 2000; 287 (5450): 47
Words and Rules. The Ingredients of Language, by Steven Pinker (Basic Books, New York, 1999)
reviewed by James L. McClelland and Mark S. Seidenberg
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Geography as Destiny?

Science 12 May 2000; 288 (5468): 982
The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, by Kenneth Pomeranz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Graeme Lang
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Two Views of a Star's Life

Science 7 January 2000; 287 (5450): 46
Carl Sagan. A Life in the Cosmos, by William Poundstone (Henry Holt, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Clark R. Chapman
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The Human Role in Environmental History

Science 31 March 2000; 287 (5462): 2427
Human Impact on Ancient Environments, by Charles L. Redman (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1999)
reviewed by Karl W. Butzer
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How We See Things

Science 30 June 2000; 288 (5475): 2324
Human Perception of Objects. Early Visual Processing of Spatial Form Defined by Luminance, Color, Texture, Motion, and Binocular Disparity, by David Regan (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Gerald Westheimer
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Disdained by Generals

Science 11 February 2000; 287 (5455): 981
The Biology of Doom. The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project, by Ed Regis (Holt, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Raymond A. Zilinskas
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Browsings

Science 15 December 2000; 290 (5499): 2080
Mendel's Demon. Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life, by Mark Ridley (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 23 June 2000; 288 (5474): 2138b
Light Science. Physics and the Visual Arts, by Thomas D. Rossing and Christopher J. Chiaverina (Springer, New York, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 17 November 2000; 290 (5495): 1305b
GeoComplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes, by John B. Rundle, Donald L. Turcotte, and William Klein, Eds. (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 April 2000; 288 (5464): 279
Memory, Brain, and Belief, by Daniel L. Schacter and Elaine Scarry, Eds. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 23 June 2000; 288 (5474): 2138b
Mitochondria, by Immo E. Scheffler (Wiley-Liss, New York, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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Acts of Living

Science 25 August 2000; 289 (5483): 1303
The Drama of Everyday Life, by Karl E. Scheibe (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Rom Harré
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Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama

Science 22 December 2000; 290 (5500): 2263
The Wild Numbers, by Philibert Schogt (Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 2000)
reviewed by David Foster Wallace
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From Infectious Filtrate

Science 4 August 2000; 289 (5480): 731
Tobacco Mosaic Virus. One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology, by Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, John G. Shaw, and Milton Zaitlin, Eds. (American Phytopathological Society Press, St. Paul, MN, 1999)
reviewed by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
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Tangled Causes of the Bomb's Creators

Science 26 May 2000; 288 (5470): 1350
In the Shadow of the Bomb. Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, by S. S. Schweber (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Richard Rhodes
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Browsings

Science 17 November 2000; 290 (5495): 1305b
Feeding. Form, Function, and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates, by Kurt Schwenk, Ed. (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Battlefield Sociobiology

Science 23 June 2000; 288 (5474): 2137
Defenders of the Truth. The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond, by Ullica Segerstrĺle (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Alison Jolly
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Browsings

Science 23 June 2000; 288 (5474): 2138b
Zero. The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife (Viking, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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