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Cultural Traces of a Vital Fluid

Science 4 January 2002; 295 (5552): 49
Blood. Perspectives on Art, Power, Politics and Pathology (mak.frankfurt and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 11 November 2001 to 27 January 2002. www.bloodexhibition.de)
reviewed by Kerstin Schmidt
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Cultural Traces of a Vital Fluid

Science 4 January 2002; 295 (5552): 49
Blood. Art, Power, Politics and Pathology, by James M. Bradburne, Ed. (Prestel, Munich, 2001)
reviewed by Kerstin Schmidt
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A Grand Old Synthesizer's Overview

Science 4 January 2002; 295 (5552): 50
What Evolution Is, by Ernst Mayr (Basic Books, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Menno Schilthuizen
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Learning Limits from Failures

Science 11 January 2002; 295 (5553): 281
Inviting Disaster. Lessons from the Edge of Technology, by James R. Chiles (HarperBusiness, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Lloyd J. Dumas
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Wider Than the Sky

Science 11 January 2002; 295 (5553): 282
The Secret Life of the Brain (David Grubin Productions and Thirteen/WNET, New York. On PBS, beginning 22 January 2002)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Wider Than the Sky

Science 11 January 2002; 295 (5553): 282
The Secret Life of the Brain, by Richard Restak (Joseph Henry, Washington, DC, and the Dana Press, 2001)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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A Convincing Call for Conservation

Science 18 January 2002; 295 (5554): 447
The Future of Life, by Edward O. Wilson (Knopf, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Norman Myers
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The Elements of an Education

Science 18 January 2002; 295 (5554): 448
Uncle Tungsten. Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver Sacks (Knopf, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Leo P. Kadanoff
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A Brief for Power and Against Weapons

Science 25 January 2002; 295 (5555): 632
Megawatts and Megatons. A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?, by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak (Knopf, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Frank N. von Hippel
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Unpersuasive Thoughts and Unhelpful Ideas

Science 25 January 2002; 295 (5555): 633a
Science, Truth, and Democracy, by Philip Kitcher (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Lewis Wolpert
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Browsings

Science 25 January 2002; 295 (5555): 633b
Enjoying Moths, by Roy Leverton (T & AD Poyser, London, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Much About Motion in the Mantle

Science 1 February 2002; 295 (5556): 802
Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets, by Gerald Schubert, Donald L. Turcotte, and Peter Olson (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001)
reviewed by Yanick Ricard
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Pregnancy in a Polluted World

Science 1 February 2002; 295 (5556): 803
Having Faith. An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, by Sandra Steingraber (Perseus, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by George M. Woodwell
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Bird Watching with Honest Jim

Science 8 February 2002; 295 (5557): 977
Genes, Girls and Gamow, by James D. Watson (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)
reviewed by Rachel A. Ankeny
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Depictions of Travels Imagined

Science 8 February 2002; 295 (5557): 978
Visions of Spaceflight. Images from the Ordway Collection, by Frederick I. Ordway III (Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Caroline Ash and Julia Uppenbrink
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Do We Need Species Concepts?

Science 15 February 2002; 295 (5558): 1238
Genes, Categories, and Species. The Evolutionary and Cognitive Causes of the Species Problem, by Jody Hey (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Kerry L. Shaw
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An Eastern View of Apes and Monkeys

Science 15 February 2002; 295 (5558): 1239a
Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior, by T. Matsuzawa, Ed. (Springer, Tokyo, 2001)
reviewed by Sarah Boysen
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Browsings

Science 15 February 2002; 295 (5558): 1239b
The Recombinant DNA Controversy, by Donald S. Fredrickson (ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Fine Battlefield Reporting, But It's Time to Stop the War Metaphor

Science 22 February 2002; 295 (5559): 1469
Secret Agents. The Menace of Emerging Infections, by Madeline Drexler (Joseph Henry, Washington, DC. 2002)
reviewed by Tony McMichael
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Locating the Summit of the Oil Peak

Science 22 February 2002; 295 (5559): 1470a
Hubbert's Peak. The Impending World Oil Shortage, by Kenneth S. Deffeyes (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001)
reviewed by Ronald R. Charpentier
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Browsings

Science 22 February 2002; 295 (5559): 1470b
Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton, by Jonathon Howard (Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 22 February 2002; 295 (5559): 1470b
Histories of the Electron. The Birth of Microphysics, by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Time, Space, and Us

Science 1 March 2002; 295 (5560): 1649
Our Cosmic Habitat, by Martin Rees (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001)
reviewed by William G. Unruh
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Marvelous Machines Made of Meat

Science 1 March 2002; 295 (5560): 1650
Prime Mover. A Natural History of Muscle, by Steven Vogel (Norton, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Sharon Swartz
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Between the Ivory Tower and the Market

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1840
Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property, by Corynne McSherry (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Jason Owen-Smith
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, by Clarence E. Dutton (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Bright Earth. Art and the Invention of Color, by Philip Ball (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Chromic Phenomena. Technological Applications of Colour Chemistry, by Peter Bamfield (Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Chemical and Biological Warfare. A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen, by Eric Croddy, with Clarisa Perez-Armendariz and John Hart (Copernicus, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Inventing the Electronic Century. The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (Free Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Pox Americana. The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang, New York, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
Science Bought and Sold. Essays in the Economics of Science, by Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 8 March 2002; 295 (5561): 1841
This Man's Pill. Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill, by Carl Djerassi (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Heroic Battles of the Protein Wars

Science 15 March 2002; 295 (5562): 2021
Nature's Robots. A History of Proteins, by Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)
reviewed by David Eisenberg
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Creature, Heal Thyself

Science 15 March 2002; 295 (5562): 2022
Wild Health. How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them, by Cindy Engel (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2002. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2002)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Keeping Pace with Opportunistic DNA

Science 22 March 2002; 295 (5563): 2219
Lateral DNA Transfer. Mechanisms and Consequences, by Frederic Bushman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002)
reviewed by Margaret G. Kidwell
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Bridging the Genotype-Phenotype Gap

Science 22 March 2002; 295 (5563): 2220
Foundations of Systems Biology, by Hiroaki Kitano, Ed. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Stig W. Omholt
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Waiting for the Watchmaker

Science 29 March 2002; 295 (5564): 2373
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics. Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, by Robert T. Pennock, Ed. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Kevin Padian
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Keeping Swaying Bridges from Falling Down

Science 29 March 2002; 295 (5564): 2374a
In the Wake of Tacoma. Suspension Bridges and the Quest for Aerodynamic Stability, by Richard Scott (ASCE Press, Reston, VA, 2001)
reviewed by Henry Petroski
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Browsings

Science 29 March 2002; 295 (5564): 2374b
The Shape of Life (Sea Studios Foundation, Monterey, CA, and National Geographic Television, Washington, DC. On PBS, Tuesday evenings, beginning 2 April 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 29 March 2002; 295 (5564): 2374b
The Shape of Life, by Nancy Burnett and Brad Matsen (Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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The Race to Understand the Outlier

Science 5 April 2002; 296 (5565): 51
Lore of Running. 4th ed., by Tim Noakes (Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town, 2001)
reviewed by Bernd Heinrich
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Making the University of California

Science 5 April 2002; 296 (5565): 52
The Gold and the Blue. A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967. Volume 1, Academic Triumphs, by Clark Kerr (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001)
reviewed by Roger L. Geiger
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A Hawking-eye View of the Universe

Science 12 April 2002; 296 (5566): 267
The Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Marc Kamionkowski
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Synaptic Substrates of the Implicit and Explicit Self

Science 12 April 2002; 296 (5566): 268
Synaptic Self. How Our Brains Become Who We Are, by Joseph LeDoux (Viking, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Richard J. Davidson
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The Childless Father of Eugenics

Science 19 April 2002; 296 (5567): 472
A Life of Sir Francis Galton. From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics, by Nicholas Wright Gillham (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by W. F. Bynum
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How Molecules Make Organisms Work

Science 19 April 2002; 296 (5567): 473
Biochemical Adaptation. Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution, by Peter W. Hochachka and George N. Somero (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Pat Willmer
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Stephen Jay Gould à la recherche du temps perdu

Science 26 April 2002; 296 (5568): 661
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, by Stephen Jay Gould (Belknap Press at the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Douglas J. Futuyma
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Browsings

Science 26 April 2002; 296 (5568): 662
The Sport of Life and Death. The Mesoamerican Ballgame, by E. Michael Whittington, Ed. (Thames and Hudson, New York, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 26 April 2002; 296 (5568): 662
The Sport of Life and Death. The Mesoamerican Ballgame, by E. Michael Whittington, curator (An exhibit organized by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, where it closed 6 January 2002. At the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, through 28 April; the Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE, 8 June to 1 September; and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1 October to 29 December)
reviewed by staff
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TMV in the Lab and Life Sciences

Science 26 April 2002; 296 (5568): 663
The Life of a Virus. Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965, by Angela N. H. Creager (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
reviewed by Soroya de Chadarevian
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A Most Influential Problem Set

Science 3 May 2002; 296 (5569): 853a
The Honors Class. Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers, by Benjamin H. Yandell (A. K. Peters, Natick, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
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Browsings

Science 3 May 2002; 296 (5569): 853b
The Aztec Templo Mayor. A Visualization, by Antonio Serrato-Combe (University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Habeas Corpus

Science 3 May 2002; 296 (5569): 854
The Oxford Companion to the Body, by Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett, Eds. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by Steven Vogel
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Where Science Meets the Arts

Science 10 May 2002; 296 (5570): 1032
Beethoven's Anvil. Music in Mind and Culture, by William Benzon (Basic Books, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Josef P. Rauschecker
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History Explains Avian Patterns

Science 10 May 2002; 296 (5570): 1033
Evolutionary Ecology of Birds. Life Histories, Mating Systems and Extinction, by Peter M. Bennett and Ian P. F. Owens (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by Stephen Pruett-Jones
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Should It Be Homo economicus?

Science 17 May 2002; 296 (5571): 1243
Second Nature. Economic Origins of Human Evolution, by Haim Ofek (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001)
reviewed by Alan Grafen
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Consequences of the Unresolvable

Science 17 May 2002; 296 (5571): 1244a
From Certainty to Uncertainty. The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century, by F. David Peat (Joseph Henry, Washington, DC, 2002)
reviewed by John Gribbin
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Browsings

Science 17 May 2002; 296 (5571): 1244b
Coral Reef Fishes. Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. Revised Edition, by Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Lessons from a Slow Leak

Science 24 May 2002; 296 (5572): 1403
Silent Spill. The Organization of an Industrial Crisis, by Thomas D. Beamish (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Paul Schulman
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Dealing with Disaster

Science 24 May 2002; 296 (5572): 1404
Catastrophe and Culture. The Anthropology of Disaster, by Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith, Eds. (School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, 2002. James Currey, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by Robert McC. Adams
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Browsings

Science 24 May 2002; 296 (5572): 1405
Hydrogen. The Essential Element, by John S. Rigden (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 24 May 2002; 296 (5572): 1405
Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution. Palaeontology, Phylogeny, Genetics and Development, by Per Erik Ahlberg, Ed. (Taylor and Francis, London, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 24 May 2002; 296 (5572): 1405
The Penguin History of Economics, by Roger E. Backhouse (Penguin, London, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 24 May 2002; 296 (5572): 1405
The Ordinary Business of Life. A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century, by Roger E. Backhouse (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Double Jeopardy for Gallo

Science 31 May 2002; 296 (5573): 1615
Science Fictions. A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo, by John Crewdson (Little, Brown, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Martin Delaney
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Enticing and Informative Tales

Science 31 May 2002; 296 (5573): 1616
The Genie in the Bottle. 64 All New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life, by Joe Schwarcz (W. H. Freeman, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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Toward a New Human Species?

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1807
Redesigning Humans. Our Inevitable Genetic Future, by Gregory Stock (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2002)
reviewed by R. E. Spier
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Toward a New Human Species?

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1807
Our Posthuman Future. Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2002)
reviewed by R. E. Spier
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At the Dawn of Tyranny

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1808
Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors. Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation, by Mitchell S. Rothman, Ed. (School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2001)
reviewed by Elizabeth Carter
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Browsings

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1810
The Future of Spacetime, by Stephen W. Hawking et al. (Norton, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1810
Things Come to Life. Spontaneous Generation Revisited, by Henry Harris (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1810
Lives of a Biologist. Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science, by John Tyler Bonner (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1810
It Must Be Beautiful. Great Equations of Modern Science, by Graham Farmelo, Ed. (Granta, London, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 7 June 2002; 296 (5574): 1810
Calculated Risks. How to Know When Numbers Deceive You, by Gerd Gigerenzer (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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We Don't Think the Way We Think We Think

Science 14 June 2002; 296 (5575): 1973
The Illusion of Conscious Will, by Daniel M. Wegner (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by James Kennedy
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Home Life at Down House

Science 14 June 2002; 296 (5575): 1974
Annie's Box. Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution, by Randal Keynes (Fourth Estate, London, 2001)
reviewed by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
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Home Life at Down House

Science 14 June 2002; 296 (5575): 1974
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution, by Randal Keynes (Riverhead, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
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Home Life at Down House

Science 14 June 2002; 296 (5575): 1974
Emma Darwin. The Inspirational Wife of a Genius, by Edna Healey (Headline, London, 2001)
reviewed by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
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Making Sense of Changing Animal Embryos

Science 21 June 2002; 296 (5576): 2147
The Evolution of Developmental Pathways, by Adam S. Wilkins (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2001)
reviewed by Billie J. Swalla
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Knowledge and Social Norms

Science 21 June 2002; 296 (5576): 2148
The Fate of Knowledge, by Helen E. Longino (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by Alvin I. Goldman
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New Vines on Old Roots

Science 28 June 2002; 296 (5577): 2341
Foundations of Language, by Ray Jackendoff (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Merrill Garrett
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Out of the Chattering Ice

Science 28 June 2002; 296 (5577): 2342
A Brain for All Seasons. Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change, by William H. Calvin (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
reviewed by Robert N. Proctor
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Browsings

Science 28 June 2002; 296 (5577): 2343
Emmet Gowin. Changing the Earth. Aerial Photographs, by Jock Reynolds (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 28 June 2002; 296 (5577): 2343
Emmet Gowin. Changing the Earth. Aerial Photographs (An exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, through 28 July 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 26 October 2002 to 6 January 2003; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, 19 April to 13 July 2003; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, 23 August to 30 November 2003; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 10 January to 4 April 2004; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, 2 May to 18 July 2004; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 7 August to 7 November 2004; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, dates to be determined.)
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Mammals on the European Stage

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 57
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids. 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe, by Jordi Agustí and Mauricio Antón (Columbia University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Tim Flannery
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Mammals of the Sea in Science and Culture

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 58
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, by William F. Perrin, Bernd Würsig, and J. G. M. Thewissen, Eds. (Academic Press, San Diego, 2002)
reviewed by Ronald J. Schusterman
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Browsings

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 59
National Audobon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World, by Pieter Folkens (illustrator), Randall R. Reeves, Brent S. Stewart, Phillip J. Clapham, James A. Powell (Knopf, New York, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 59
The Atmospheric Environment. Effects of Human Activity, by Michael B. McElroy (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 59
The Fate of the Mammoth. Fossils, Myth, and History, by Claudine Cohen (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 59
Eye of the Albatross. Visions of Hope and Survival, by Carl Safina (Holt, New York, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 59
I Have Landed. The End of a Beginning in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould (Harmony, New York, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 5 July 2002; 297 (5578): 59
I Have Landed. Splashes and Reflections in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould (Jonathan Cape, London, 2002)
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The Food Pushers

Science 12 July 2002; 297 (5579): 198
Food Politics. How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle (University of California, Berkeley, 2002)
reviewed by Walter Willett
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Consequences of Raising Cane

Science 12 July 2002; 297 (5579): 199
States of Nature. Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940, by Stuart McCook (University of Texas Press, Austin, 2002)
reviewed by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
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Rapid Population Growth Saps Development

Science 19 July 2002; 297 (5580): 341
Population Matters. Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World, by Nancy Birdsall, Allen C. Kelley, and Steven W. Sinding, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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More Bark Than Bites

Science 19 July 2002; 297 (5580): 342
The Fever Trail. In Search of the Cure for Malaria, by Mark Honigsbaum (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Marcia L. Triunfol
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More Bark Than Bites

Science 19 July 2002; 297 (5580): 342
The Fever Trail. The Hunt for the Cure for Malaria, by Mark Honigsbaum (Macmillan, London, 2001)
reviewed by Marcia L. Triunfol
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Networks for Seeing

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 525
Computational Neuroscience of Vision, by Edmund T. Rolls and Gustavo Deco (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by Kevan A. C. Martin
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Focusing on Truth and Beauty

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526a
Envisioning Science. The Design and Craft of the Science Image, by Felice Frankel (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Jake Miller
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Browsings

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526b
Vision and Art. The Biology of Seeing, by Margaret Livingstone (Abrams, New York, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526b
Measuring Mass. From Positive Rays to Proteins, by Michael A. Grayson, Ed. (Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526b
Chips Challenging Champions. Games, Computers and Artifical Intelligence, by Jonathan Schaeffer and Jaap van den Herik, Eds. (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526b
Columbus's Outpost Among the Taínos. Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498, by Kathleen Deagan and José María Cruxent (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526b
Archaeology at La Isabela. America's First European Town, by Kathleen Deagan and José María Cruxent (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002)
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Browsings

Science 26 July 2002; 297 (5581): 526b
Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology. Classic Papers with Commentaries, by Robin L. Chazdon and T. C. Whitmore, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
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Tales of Organic Timekeeping

Science 2 August 2002; 297 (5582): 774
The Living Clock. The Orchestrator of Biological Rhythms, by John D. Palmer (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by C. P. Kyriacou
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Moving and Mixing

Science 2 August 2002; 297 (5582): 775
Mapping Human History. Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, by Steve Olson (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Linda Vigilant
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Sour Grapes of Wrath

Science 9 August 2002; 297 (5583): 940
Of Moths and Men. Intrigue, Tragedy and the Peppered Moth, by Judith Hooper (Fourth Estate, London, 2002)
reviewed by Bruce S. Grant
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Sour Grapes of Wrath

Science 9 August 2002; 297 (5583): 940
Of Moths and Men. The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth, by Judith Hooper (Norton, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Bruce S. Grant
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