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Review Index, 2001

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Cinemas of the Wild

Science 5 January 2001; 291 (5501): 50a
Wildlife Films, by Derek Bousé (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2000)
reviewed by Thomas Lovejoy
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Cinemas of the Wild

Science 5 January 2001; 291 (5501): 50a
Reel Nature. America's Romance with Wildlife on Film, by Gregg Mitman (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)
reviewed by Thomas Lovejoy
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Browsings

Science 5 January 2001; 291 (5501): 50b
Science is Fiction. The Films of Jean Painlevé, by Andy Masaki Bellows and Marina McDougall, Eds. With Brigitte Berg (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Games Cichlids Play

Science 5 January 2001; 291 (5501): 51
The Cichlid Fishes. Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution, by George W. Barlow (Perseus, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Amy McCune
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Explosive Rhetoric

Science 12 January 2001; 291 (5502): 257
The Nuclear Muse. Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs, by John Canaday (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2000)
reviewed by Gregory Benford
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Things Fall Apart

Science 12 January 2001; 291 (5502): 258
Betrayal of Trust. The Collapse of Global Public Health, by Laurie Garrett (Hyperion, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Robert E. Shope
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Elementary, My Dear Chimpanzee

Science 19 January 2001; 291 (5503): 440
Folk Physics for Apes. The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works, by Daniel J. Povinelli (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by Marc D. Hauser
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Westward Impulse Embodied

Science 19 January 2001; 291 (5503): 441
A River Running West. The Life of John Wesley Powell, by Donald Worster (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Stephen J. Pyne
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The Republican Temple of Nature

Science 26 January 2001; 291 (5504): 601
Utopia's Garden. French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution, by E. C. Spary (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000)
reviewed by Pascal Duris
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Holy Landscapes!

Science 26 January 2001; 291 (5504): 602
Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process, by Jason B. Wolf, Edmund D. Brodie III, and Michael J. Wade, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by James Mallet
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The Great Success of a "Foul Book"

Science 2 February 2001; 291 (5505): 833
Victorian Sensation. The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, by James A. Secord (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001)
reviewed by David L. Hull
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Music of the Spheres

Science 2 February 2001; 291 (5505): 834
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time, by Marcia Bartusiak (Joseph Henry, Washington, DC, 2000)
reviewed by Matt Visser
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Life from Smut

Science 9 February 2001; 291 (5506): 991
Sparks of Life. Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation, by James E. Strick (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Lynn Margulis
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Viral Immunology from Math

Science 9 February 2001; 291 (5506): 992a
Virus Dynamics. Mathematical Principles of Immunology and Virology, by Martin A. Nowak and Robert M. May (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by Charles R. M. Bangham and Becca Asquith
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Browsings

Science 9 February 2001; 291 (5506): 992b
The Shape of the Heart, by Pierre Vinken (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1999)
reviewed by staff
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In the Beginning Was the Word

Science 16 February 2001; 291 (5507): 1263
Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code, by Lily E. Kay (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2000)
reviewed by R. C. Lewontin
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Communications Breakdown?

Science 16 February 2001; 291 (5507): 1264
The Century of the Gene, by Evelyn Fox Keller (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by Sean B. Carroll
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Hunting the Metaphor

Science 16 February 2001; 291 (5507): 1265
Cracking the Genome. Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA, by Kevin Davies (Free Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Sydney Brenner
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An Internet Tea Party

Science 23 February 2001; 291 (5508): 1493
The Diagnosis, by Alan Lightman (Pantheon, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Julio Licinio
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Betrayed by Batteries?

Science 23 February 2001; 291 (5508): 1495
The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History, by David A. Kirsch (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Leonard S. Reich
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Fascinations of the Third Domain

Science 2 March 2001; 291 (5509): 1707a
The Surprising Archaea. Discovering Another Domain of Life, by John L. Howland (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by W. Ford Doolittle
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Another World Food Scare?

Science 2 March 2001; 291 (5509): 1707b
Food's Frontier. The Next Green Revolution, by Richard Manning (North Point, New York, 2000)
reviewed by John H. Sanders
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Browsings

Science 2 March 2001; 291 (5509): 1708
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, by James Corner and Alex S. MacLean (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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A Goddess of Earth or the Imagination of a Man?

Science 9 March 2001; 291 (5510): 1906
Homage to Gaia. The Life of an Independent Scientist, by James Lovelock (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by Stephen H. Schneider
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Culturing American Life

Science 9 March 2001; 291 (5510): 1907
Biologists and the Promise of American Life. From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey, by Philip J. Pauly (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Audra J. Wolfe
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Browsings

Science 9 March 2001; 291 (5510): 1908
The Swamp. On the Edge of Eden, by Kerry Oliver-Smith et al. (Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 9 March 2001; 291 (5510): 1908
Computers Ltd. What They Really Can't Do, by David Harel (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Killing Other Peoples

Science 16 March 2001; 291 (5511): 2097a
The Deadly Ethnic Riot, by Donald L. Horowitz (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001)
reviewed by Sudhir Kakar
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Painting the Skies

Science 16 March 2001; 291 (5511): 2097b
Star Struck. 1000 Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy, by Ronald Brashear and Daniel Lewis, Curators (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, to 13 May 2001)
reviewed by Virginia Trimble
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Painting the Skies

Science 16 March 2001; 291 (5511): 2097b
Star Struck. One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy, by Ronald Brashear and Daniel Lewis (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, and the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001)
reviewed by Virginia Trimble
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Browsings

Science 16 March 2001; 291 (5511): 2098
The Universe. A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science, by Jay Belloli, Ed. (Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, and Reaktion, London, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Despised Marvels of Deception and Adaption

Science 23 March 2001; 291 (5512): 2321a
Parasite Rex. Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, by Carl Zimmer (Free Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Albert O. Bush
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Teaching Healing and Healing Teaching

Science 23 March 2001; 291 (5512): 2321b
Time to Heal. American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care, by Kenneth M. Ludmerer (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Robert G. Petersdorf
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Browsings

Science 23 March 2001; 291 (5512): 2322
Earth Systems. Processes and Issues, by W. G. Ernst, Ed. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 23 March 2001; 291 (5512): 2322
Perspectives on Genetics. Anecdotal, Historical, and Critical Commentaries, 1987-1998, by James F. Crow and William F. Dove, Eds. (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 23 March 2001; 291 (5512): 2322
A Thin Cosmic Rain. Particles from Outer Space, by Michael W. Friedlander (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Boltzmann's Science, Irony and Achievement

Science 30 March 2001; 291 (5513): 2553
Boltzmann's Atom. The Great Debate That Launched a Revolution in Physics, by David Lindley (Free Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Leo P. Kadanoff
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Microbial Resolution and Reality

Science 30 March 2001; 291 (5513): 2554
Growth and Form. Biomedical Images--Awards and Interpretations, by Denna Jones, Curator (The Wellcome Trust, Two 10 Gallery, London, 22 February to 4 May 2001)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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The Meaning of Make-Believe

Science 6 April 2001; 292 (5514): 57a
The Work of the Imagination, by Paul L. Harris (Blackwell, Oxford, 2000)
reviewed by Alison Gopnik
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Grappling with Qubits

Science 6 April 2001; 292 (5514): 57b
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Günter Mahler
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Modern Molecular Vision

Science 13 April 2001; 292 (5515): 226
The New Chemistry, by Nina Hall, Ed. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Shenda M. Baker
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Crime-solving Bugs

Science 13 April 2001; 292 (5515): 227a
Maggots, Murder and Men. Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist, by Zakaria Erzinçlioglu (Harley, Colchester, UK, 2000)
reviewed by Jason H. Byrd
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Browsings

Science 13 April 2001; 292 (5515): 227b
Machu Picchu. A Civil Engineering Marvel, by Kenneth R. Wright and Alfredo Valencia Zegarra (American Society of Civil Engineers Press, Reston, VA, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Algorithms of Boundless Beauty

Science 20 April 2001; 292 (5516): 445
Arabesques. Decorative Art in Morocco, by Jean-Marc Castéra (ACR, Paris, 1999)
reviewed by Gregory Buck
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A Last Hurrah and New Directions

Science 20 April 2001; 292 (5516): 446
Molecular Cloning. A Laboratory Manual. 3rd ed., by Joseph Sambrook and David W. Russell (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2001)
reviewed by Lisa Chong
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Not "A Piece of Cake"!

Science 27 April 2001; 292 (5517): 643
No Apparent Danger. The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado del Ruiz, by Victoria Bruce (HarperCollins, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Haraldur Sigurdsson
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Not "A Piece of Cake"!

Science 27 April 2001; 292 (5517): 643
Surviving Galeras, by Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001)
reviewed by Haraldur Sigurdsson
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The Shadow of Droughts' Deaths

Science 27 April 2001; 292 (5517): 644
Late Victorian Holocausts. El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis (Verso, London, 2001)
reviewed by Vaclav Smil
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More Than a Mass of Incandescent Gas

Science 27 April 2001; 292 (5517): 645
The Sun from Space, by Kenneth R. Lang (Springer, New York, 2000)
reviewed by J. R. Jokipii
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Waiting for Vaccine

Science 4 May 2001; 292 (5518): 862
Shots in the Dark. The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, by Jon Cohen (Norton, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Robin A. Weiss
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We Are Made of Starstuff

Science 4 May 2001; 292 (5518): 863
The Magic Furnace. The Search for the Origins of Atoms, by Marcus Chown (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Craig J. Hogan
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Developments from a Beneficial Bark

Science 11 May 2001; 292 (5519): 1073
The Story of Taxol. Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-cancer Drug, by Jordan Goodman and Vivien Walsh (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by William P. McGuire
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Ingredients for Tropical Renewal

Science 11 May 2001; 292 (5519): 1074
Green Phoenix. Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, by William Allen (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Valerie Kapos
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Adapt or Perish? Zoos Must Choose

Science 18 May 2001; 292 (5520): 1304
A Different Nature. The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future, by David Hancocks (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001)
reviewed by Michael H. Robinson
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Complexities of a Controversial Practice

Science 18 May 2001; 292 (5520): 1305
Female "Circumcision" in Africa. Culture, Controversy, and Change, by Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, Eds. (Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO, 2000)
reviewed by Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer
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Complexities of a Controversial Practice

Science 18 May 2001; 292 (5520): 1305
The Female Circumcision Controversy. An Anthropological Perspective, by Ellen Gruenbaum (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001)
reviewed by Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer
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Browsings

Science 18 May 2001; 292 (5520): 1306
Vanishing Voices. The Extinction of the World's Languages, by Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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A Private-Sector Perspective

Science 25 May 2001; 292 (5521): 1491
Transducing the Genome. Information, Anarchy, and Revolution in the Biomedical Sciences, by Gary Zweiger (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Michael A. Goldman
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Beautiful Reef Builders

Science 25 May 2001; 292 (5521): 1492
Corals of the World, by J. E. N. Veron (Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, 2000)
reviewed by Stephen D. Cairns
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Piecing Together a Puzzling World

Science 1 June 2001; 292 (5522): 1661
Memento, by Christopher Nolan, Director (Newmarket Film Group, 2000)
reviewed by Esther M. Sternberg
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Pathways to Dependency

Science 1 June 2001; 292 (5522): 1662
Forces of Habit. Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, by David T. Courtwright (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Jack H. Mendelson
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Cenozoic Dramas

Science 8 June 2001; 292 (5523): 1841
The Eternal Frontier. An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Stuart Pimm
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Browsings

Science 8 June 2001; 292 (5523): 1843a
A Chemical History Tour. Picturing Chemistry from Alchemy to Modern Molecular Science, by Arthur Greenberg (Wiley-Interscience, New York, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 June 2001; 292 (5523): 1843a
The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, by Günter P. Wagner, Ed. (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 June 2001; 292 (5523): 1843a
Enriching the Earth. Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production, by Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Some Things Never Change

Science 8 June 2001; 292 (5523): 1843b
Oxygen, by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann (Wiley-VCH, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Julia Uppenbrink
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Some Things Never Change

Science 8 June 2001; 292 (5523): 1843b
Oxygen, by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann (Lyceum Theatre, San Diego, 2 to 7 April 2001)
reviewed by Julia Uppenbrink
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Fragmented Formative Story

Science 15 June 2001; 292 (5524): 2016
Origin of the Earth and Moon, by R. M. Canup and K. Righter, Eds. (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, in collaboration with Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 2000)
reviewed by Hugh O'Neill
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Paradise Regained

Science 15 June 2001; 292 (5524): 2017a
The Eden Project (Bodelva, St. Austell, Cornwall, UK)
reviewed by Sandra Knapp
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Sounds of Silence

Science 15 June 2001; 292 (5524): 2017b
Antarctic Symphony, by Peter Maxwell Davies (www.maxopus.com)
reviewed by Julia Uppenbrink
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Resolving the Hox Paradox

Science 22 June 2001; 292 (5525): 2256
From DNA to Diversity. Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design, by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee (Blackwell Science, Malden, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Gregory A. Wray
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Resolving the Hox Paradox

Science 22 June 2001; 292 (5525): 2256
Genomic Regulatory Systems. Development and Evolution, by Eric H. Davidson (Academic Press, San Diego, 2001)
reviewed by Gregory A. Wray
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Fatally Flawed Iconoclasm

Science 22 June 2001; 292 (5525): 2257a
Icons of Evolution. Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong, by Jonathan Wells (Regnery, Washington, DC, 2000)
reviewed by Eugenie C. Scott
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Browsings

Science 22 June 2001; 292 (5525): 2257b
Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900. Art & Science, Technology & Society, by Andreas Blühm and Louise Lippincott (Thames & Hudson, New York, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 22 June 2001; 292 (5525): 2258
The Scopes Trial. A Photographic History, by Edward Caudill, Edward Larson, and Jesse Fox Mayshark (University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Mutated into Oblivion

Science 29 June 2001; 292 (5526): 2437
Mendel's Demon. Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life, by Mark Ridley (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2000)
reviewed by Lynda F. Delph
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Mutated into Oblivion

Science 29 June 2001; 292 (5526): 2437
The Cooperative Gene. How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings, by Mark Ridley (Free Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Lynda F. Delph
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The Webs We Weave

Science 29 June 2001; 292 (5526): 2438
The Once and Future Web. Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet, by Jerry James (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. May and June 2001)
reviewed by David Voss
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The Webs We Weave

Science 29 June 2001; 292 (5526): 2438
The Once and Future Web, by Michael Sappol and Hunter Crowther-Heyck, Curators (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD)
reviewed by David Voss
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Empowering Aristotle

Science 6 July 2001; 293 (5527): 53
Making Social Science Matter. Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again, by Bent Flyvberg (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001)
reviewed by Clifford Geertz
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Is God All in the Mind?

Science 6 July 2001; 293 (5527): 54
Why God Won't Go Away. Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause (Ballantine, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Michael Shermer
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Divergent Thinking About Self-Defense

Science 13 July 2001; 293 (5528): 219
Tending Adam's Garden. Evolving the Immune Self, by Irun R. Cohen (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by Jonathan Howard
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Divergent Thinking About Self-Defense

Science 13 July 2001; 293 (5528): 219
The War Within Us. Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity, by Cedric Mims (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by Jonathan Howard
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Explaining Time's Arrow

Science 13 July 2001; 293 (5528): 220
Time and Chance, by David Z. Albert (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Jean Bricmont
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Extraordinary Talents of Autistic Minds

Science 20 July 2001; 293 (5529): 435
Bright Splinters of the Mind. A Personal Story of Research with Autistic Savants, by Beate Hermelin (Jessica Kingsley, Philadelphia, 2001)
reviewed by Marian Sigman
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Are You Ready?

Science 20 July 2001; 293 (5529): 436
The Genomic Revolution, by Rob DeSalle, Curator (American Museum of Natural History, New York. 26 May 2001 to 1 January 2002)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Behavioral Just-So Stories, Recast

Science 27 July 2001; 293 (5530): 610
Animal Traditions. Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution, by Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Patricia Adair Gowaty
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Manifesto for a Cytoplasmic Revolution

Science 27 July 2001; 293 (5530): 611
Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life. A New, Unifying Approach to Cell Function, by Gerald H. Pollack (Ebner, Seattle, 2001)
reviewed by Thomas P. Stossel
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Evolution and Our Reproductive Physiology

Science 3 August 2001; 293 (5531): 809
On Fertile Ground. A Natural History of Human Reproduction, by Peter Ellison (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Hillard S. Kaplan
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Writing About the Unseen

Science 3 August 2001; 293 (5531): 810
Chance in the House of Fate. A Natural History of Heredity, by Jennifer Ackerman (Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Andrew Berry
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Formative Effects of Federal Funding

Science 10 August 2001; 293 (5532): 1052
Shaping Biology. The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945-1975, by Toby Appel (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000)
reviewed by James E. Strick
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For the Curious

Science 10 August 2001; 293 (5532): 1053
How Things Work. The Physics of Everyday Life. 2nd ed., by Louis A. Bloomfield (Wiley, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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For the Curious

Science 10 August 2001; 293 (5532): 1053
Scientific American How Things Work Today, by Michael Wright and Mukul Patel, Eds. (Crown, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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Wallace at Center Stage

Science 17 August 2001; 293 (5533): 1260
Alfred Russel Wallace. A Life, by Peter Raby (Chatto and Windus, London, and Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001)
reviewed by Gareth Nelson
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Controversial Crusade Against Cancer

Science 17 August 2001; 293 (5533): 1261
Dr. Folkman's War. Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer, by Robert Cooke (Random House, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Ilana Löwy
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The Story of Strata-Smith

Science 24 August 2001; 293 (5534): 1439
The Map That Changed the World. William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, by Simon Winchester (Viking, London, and HarperCollins, New York, 2001)
reviewed by David Oldroyd
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The Model Science Advisor

Science 24 August 2001; 293 (5534): 1440
Solly Zuckerman. A Scientist out of the Ordinary, by John Peyton (John Murray, London, 2001)
reviewed by Keith O'Nions
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Making Sense of Deformed Rocks

Science 31 August 2001; 293 (5535): 1597
The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology. Vol. 3, Applications of Continuum Mechanics in Structural Geology, by John G. Ramsay and Richard J. Lisle (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
reviewed by Steven Wojtal
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Why We Must Worry

Science 31 August 2001; 293 (5535): 1598a
The World According to Pimm. A Scientist Audits the Earth, by Stuart L. Pimm (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Peter Raven
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Browsings

Science 31 August 2001; 293 (5535): 1598b
The Living Wild, by Art Wolfe (Wildlands, Seattle, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Tales Told by Loops, Whorls, and Ridges

Science 7 September 2001; 293 (5536): 1771
Suspect Identities. A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, by Simon A. Cole (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Robert Jackall
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Consequences of Community Drift

Science 7 September 2001; 293 (5536): 1772
The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, by Stephen P. Hubbell (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001)
reviewed by Claire de Mazancourt
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Raising the Bar for Bird Guides

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2002
Birds of North America, by Kenn Kaufman (Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Hugh Dingle
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Raising the Bar for Bird Guides

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2002
The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley (Knopf, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Hugh Dingle
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Raising the Bar for Bird Guides

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2002
North American Bird Guide (Pica, East Sussex, UK, 2000)
reviewed by Hugh Dingle
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Raising the Bar for Bird Guides

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2002
Collins Bird Guide, by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström, and Peter J. Grant (Harper Collins, London, 1999)
reviewed by Hugh Dingle
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Raising the Bar for Bird Guides

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2002
Birds of Europe (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000)
reviewed by Hugh Dingle
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Dealing with Superabundant Diversity

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2004
The Birds of Ecuador. Vol. I, Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy, by Robert S. Ridgely and Paul J. Greenfield (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2001)
reviewed by Thomas S. Schulenberg
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Dealing with Superabundant Diversity

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2004
The Birds of Ecuador. Vol. II, Field Guide, by Robert S. Ridgely and Paul J. Greenfield (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2001)
reviewed by Thomas S. Schulenberg
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Old Insects, New Treatment

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2005
Dragonflies Through Binoculars. A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America, by Sidney W. Dunkle (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)
reviewed by Dennis R. Paulson
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Twitching Butterflies

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2007
Butterflies Through Binoculars. The West. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Western North America, by Jeffrey Glassberg (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Paul R. Ehrlich
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Browsings

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2008
Photographic Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe, by Tom Tolman (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2008
Voices of Amazonian Birds. Birds of the Rainforest of Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia. Vol. 1, Tinamous (Tinamidae) Through Barbets (Capitonidae), by Thomas S. Schulenberg, Curtis A. Marantz, and Peter H. English (Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2008
Voices of Amazonian Birds. Birds of the Rainforest of Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia. Vol. 2, Toucans (Ramphastidae) Through Antbirds (Thamnophilidae), by Thomas S. Schulenberg, Curtis A. Marantz, and Peter H. English (Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2008
Voices of Amazonian Birds. Birds of the Rainforest of Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia. Vol. 3, Ground Antbirds (Formicariidae) Through Jays (Corvidae), by Thomas S. Schulenberg, Curtis A. Marantz, and Peter H. English (Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 September 2001; 293 (5537): 2008
Voices of Andean Birds. Vol. 1, Birds of the Hill Forest of Southern Peru and Bolivia, by Thomas S. Schulenberg (Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, 2000)
reviewed by staff
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