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Review Index, 2003

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The String Revolution Will Be Televised

Science 24 October 2003; 302 (5645): 570
The Elegant Universe, by (NOVA. WGBH Science Unit, Boston. On PBS, Tuesday evenings, 28 October (parts 1 and 2) and 4 November (part 3). www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/)
reviewed by David Voss
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Rest in Plastic

Science 7 February 2003; 299 (5608): 828a
Körperwelten. Fascination Beneath the Surface, by (München Arena, Munich, Germany. 22 February to 9 March, and 21 March to 15 June 2003)
reviewed by Penny Herscovitch
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A Contemporary Bouquet

Science 27 June 2003; 300 (5628): 2034b
A Passion for Plants. Contemporary Art from the Shirley Sherwood Collection, by (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Through 2 September 2003)
reviewed by Pamela J. Hines
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Dilemmas of a Divisive Concept

Science 18 April 2003; 300 (5618): 434
Race. The Power of an Illusion, by Larry Adelman, Executive Producer (California Newsreel, San Francisco. On PBS, Thursdays, 24 April to 8 May 2003)
reviewed by Mildred Cho and Maren Grainger-Monsen
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You Want To Build It with What?

Science 13 June 2003; 300 (5626): 1664
Materials and Design. The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, by Mike Ashby and Kara Johnson (Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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A Tale Meant to Inform, Not to Amuse

Science 14 November 2003; 302 (5648): 1154
Oryx and Crake. A Novel, by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Susan M. Squier
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A Full Account of Holey Material

Science 21 November 2003; 302 (5649): 1335
Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology, by Scott M. Auerbach, Kathleen A. Carrado, and Prabir K. Dutta, Eds. (Marcel Dekker, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Steven L. Suib
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X and Y, A Wild Pair

Science 1 August 2003; 301 (5633): 599
The X in Sex. How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives, by David Bainbridge (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Nancy L. Segal
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Browsings

Science 3 January 2003; 299 (5603): 48
Kosmos. A Portrait of the Russian Space Age, by Adam Bartos (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2001)
reviewed by staff
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King Corn

Science 17 October 2003; 302 (5644): 394
George Beadle. An Uncommon Farmer. The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century, by Paul Berg and Maxine Singer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2003)
reviewed by James F. Crow
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A Yankee in King Gustav's Court

Science 12 September 2003; 301 (5639): 1483a
How to Win the Nobel Prize. An Unexpected Life in Science, by J. Michael Bishop (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Sydney Brenner
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On Over-Weighting the Bottom Line

Science 22 August 2003; 301 (5636): 1050
Universities in the Marketplace. The Commercialization of Higher Education, by Derek Bok (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003)
reviewed by David Baltimore
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A Demographic View of Limits on Life-Span

Science 29 August 2003; 301 (5637): 1185
Longevity. The Biology and Demography of Life Span, by James R. Carey (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003)
reviewed by Laurence D. Mueller
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Millennial Status Report As Debate Wanes

Science 14 March 2003; 299 (5613): 1664
Mesozoic Birds. Above the Heads of Dinosaurs, by Luis M. Chiappe and Lawrence M. Witmer, Eds. (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002)
reviewed by Bradley C. Livezey
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Neurophilosophy or Philoneuroscience

Science 5 September 2003; 301 (5638): 1328
Brain-Wise. Studies in Neurophilosophy, by Patricia Smith Churchland (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Ned Block
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Giving Fish a Hand

Science 8 August 2003; 301 (5634): 766
Gaining Ground. The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods, by Jennifer A. Clack (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2002)
reviewed by Neil H. Shubin
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Science Protecting and Protected

Science 28 March 2003; 299 (5615): 1986
Science in the Service of Human Rights, by Richard Pierre Claude (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2002)
reviewed by Elena O. Nightingale
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First Views of the Depths

Science 7 November 2003; 302 (5647): 989
The Silent Landscape. The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger, by Richard Corfield (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2003)
reviewed by William A. Berggren
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Browsings

Science 7 February 2003; 299 (5608): 828b
Fat Land. How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, by Greg Critser (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Steps into the Sky

Science 12 December 2003; 302 (5652): 1896b
The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age, by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab (National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 2003)
reviewed by Sherman J. Suter
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Stratigraphy's Founding Saint

Science 4 July 2003; 301 (5629): 51
The Seashell on the Mountaintop. A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth, by Alan Cutler (Dutton, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Keith S. Thomson
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Browsings

Science 25 April 2002; 300 (5619): 585b
The Book of Clouds, by John A. Day (Silver Lining Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Just How Pregnant Is the Universe?

Science 17 January 2003; 299 (5605): 347
Life Evolving. Molecules, Mind, and Meaning, by Christian de Duve (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Antonio Lazcano
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Browsings

Science 28 February 2003; 299 (5611): 1320
Planetary Sciences, by Imke de Pater and Jack J. Lissauer (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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To Write a Book, To Plant a Tree ...

Science 28 February 2003; 299 (5611): 1318
Losing My Mind. An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, by Thomas DeBaggio (Free Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Ashley I. Bush
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To Write a Book, To Plant a Tree ...

Science 28 February 2003; 299 (5611): 1318
Losing My Mind. An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, by Thomas DeBaggio (Large print edition. Thorndike, Waterville, ME, 2002)
reviewed by Ashley I. Bush
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The Demon of Determinism

Science 4 April 2003; 300 (5616): 56
Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett (Viking, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Michael Shermer
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Prime Time for the Riemann Hypothesis

Science 3 October 2003; 302 (5642): 60
Prime Obsession. Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2003)
reviewed by Brian Conrey
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Browsings

Science 18 July 2003; 301 (5631): 314a
A Field Guide to Bacteria, by Betsey Dexter Dyer (Comstock, Ithaca, NY, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Dreams of an Antimetaphysical Physicist

Science 11 April 2003; 300 (5617): 252a
No Time To Be Brief. A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli, by Charles P. Enz (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Cathryn Carson
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Consumption for the Sake of Science

Science 17 January 2003; 299 (5605): 349
How to Dunk a Doughnut. The Science of Everyday Life, by Len Fisher (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2002)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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Intimate Interactions

Science 11 April 2003; 300 (5617): 254
Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease, by Steven A. Frank (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by Paul Schmid-Hempel
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Vision of the Lynxes

Science 2 May 2003; 300 (5620): 743
The Eye of the Lynx. Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, by David Freedberg (University of Chicago, Chicago, 2003)
reviewed by Giovanni F. Bignami
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Fat in Control

Science 7 February 2003; 299 (5608): 827
Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection, by Rose E. Frisch (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
reviewed by Christine L. Himes
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Seeking Simultaneity

Science 19 December 2003; 302 (5653): 2072
Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps. Empires of Time, by Peter Galison (Norton, New York, 2003)
reviewed by M. Norton Wise
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Seeking Simultaneity

Science 19 December 2003; 302 (5653): 2072
Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps. Empires of Time, by Peter Galison (Sceptre, London, 2003)
reviewed by M. Norton Wise
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Was Newton a Newtonian?

Science 15 August 2003; 301 (5635): 920
Isaac Newton, by James Gleick (Pantheon Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Patricia Fara
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Was Newton a Newtonian?

Science 15 August 2003; 301 (5635): 920
Isaac Newton, by James Gleick (Fourth Estate, London, 2003)
reviewed by Patricia Fara
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Certainly Nondeterministic

Science 13 June 2003; 300 (5626): 1662
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain. The Science of Neuroeconomics, by Paul W. Glimcher (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Wolfram Schultz
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Conciliation, Gould's Last Discourse

Science 31 October 2003; 302 (5646): 785
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox. Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities, by Stephen Jay Gould (Harmony Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Robert N. Proctor
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Conciliation, Gould's Last Discourse

Science 31 October 2003; 302 (5646): 785
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox. Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities, by Stephen Jay Gould (Jonathan Cape, London, 2003)
reviewed by Robert N. Proctor
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New Buzz on the Humble-Bee

Science 17 October 2003; 302 (5644): 395
Bumblebees. Their Behaviour and Ecology, by Dave Goulson (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003)
reviewed by Berned Heinrich
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Adventures of a Pioneer Mayanist

Science 10 January 2003; 299 (5604): 204
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya. A Biography, by Ian Graham (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 2002)
reviewed by David Webster
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(Almost) All About Biodiversity

Science 7 March 2003; 299 (5612): 1521
World Atlas of Biodiversity. Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century, by Brian Groombridge and Martin D. Jenkins (University of California Press, Berkeley, in association with UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by Osvaldo E. Sala
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To Sir2, with Love

Science 28 February 2003; 299 (5611): 1319
Ageless Quest. One Scientist's Search for Genes That Prolong Youth, by Lenny Guarente (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002)
reviewed by Daniel Promislow
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Browsings

Science 5 December 2003; 302 (5651): 1684
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, by Brian K. Hall and Wendy M. Olson, Eds. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Steps into the Sky

Science 12 December 2003; 302 (5652): 1896b
Taking Flight. Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War, by Richard P. Hallion (Oxford University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Sherman J. Suter
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A Prescription for Peace

Science 30 May 2003; 300 (5624): 1374
No More Killing Fields. Preventing Deadly Conflict, by David A. Hamburg (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2002)
reviewed by Ashton B. Carter
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Equality of the Sexes

Science 23 May 2003; 300 (5623): 1237a
Sex Ratios. Concepts and Research Methods, by Ian C. W. Hardy, Ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by H. C. J. Godfray
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Cruising Mars with the Crater Guy

Science 26 September 2003; 301 (5641): 1851
A Traveler's Guide to Mars. The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet, by William K. Hartmann (Workman, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Linda Rowan
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Where Have All the Mammoth Gone?

Science 30 May 2003; 300 (5624): 1373
The Early Settlement of North America. The Clovis Era, by Gary Haynes (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by Vance T. Holliday
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Browsings

Science 7 February 2003; 299 (5608): 828b
Winter World. The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, by Bernd Heinrich (Ecco, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Bewitching, Bewildered, Believable

Science 20 June 2003; 300 (5627): 1880
The Science of Harry Potter. How Magic Really Works, by Roger Highfield (Viking, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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Bewitching, Bewildered, Believable

Science 20 June 2003; 300 (5627): 1880
The Science of Harry Potter. How Magic Really Works, by Roger Highfield (Headline, London, 2003)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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Making Sense of Dreaming

Science 28 March 2003; 299 (5615): 1987
Dreaming. An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, by J. Allan Hobson (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by G. William Domhoff
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Two Nobel Prizes and a Hole-in-One

Science 21 March 2003; 299 (5614): 1846a
True Genius. The Life and Science of John Bardeen, by Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2002)
reviewed by Leon Cooper
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Stepping Forward Too Far?

Science 16 May 2003; 300 (5622): 1094
Prematurity in Scientific Discovery. On Resistance and Neglect, by Ernest B. Hook, Ed. (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002)
reviewed by Naomi Oreskes
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Sorting Sponges

Science 21 March 2003; 299 (5614): 1846b
Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges, by John N. A. Hooper and Rob W. M. Van Soest, Eds. (Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Joseph Pawlik
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Browsings

Science 18 July 2003; 301 (5631): 314a
Behind Deep Blue. Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion, by Feng-Hsiung Hsu (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 4 April 2003; 300 (5616): 58
Gentle Bridges. Architecture, Art and Science. Zwischen den Räumen. Architektur, Kunst und Wissenschaft, by R. Anthony Hyman et al. (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Impressions of Watson Through 50 Years

Science 10 October 2003; 302 (5643): 231
Inspiring Science. Jim Watson and the Age of DNA, by John R. Inglis, Joseph Sambrook, and Jan A. Witkowski, Eds. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2003)
reviewed by D. E. Koshland Jr.
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A Polemic on Probability

Science 5 September 2003; 301 (5638): 1329
Probability Theory. The Logic of Science, by E. T. Jaynes. G. Larry Bretthorst, Ed. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Andrew H. Jaffe
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Breaking Barriers to Quantum Computing

Science 6 June 2003; 300 (5625): 1509
A Shortcut Through Time. The Path to the Quantum Computer, by George Johnson (Knopf, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Andrew J. Landahl
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X and Y, A Wild Pair

Science 1 August 2003; 301 (5633): 599
Y. The Descent of Men, by Steve Jones (Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Nancy L. Segal
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X and Y, A Wild Pair

Science 1 August 2003; 301 (5633): 599
Y. The Descent of Men, by Steve Jones (Little Brown, London, 2002)
reviewed by Nancy L. Segal
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Browsings

Science 16 May 2003; 300 (5622): 1096
Birds and Light, by Lars Jonsson (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Insightful Storytelling on Geodynamics

Science 19 September 2003; 301 (5640): 1674
The Dynamic Structure of the Deep Earth. An Interdiscipinary Approach, by Shun-ichiro Karato (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003)
reviewed by David J. Stevenson
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Where the Medium Is (Literally) the Message

Science 17 October 2003; 302 (5644): 396
RIKEN Mouse Genome Encyclopedia. DNA Book, by Jun Kawai and Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Eds. (RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Wako, Japan, 2003)
reviewed by Barbara R. Jasny
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A Methane Trigger for Rapid Warming?

Science 14 February 2003; 299 (5609): 1017
Methane Hydrates in Quaternary Climate Change. The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis, by James P. Kennett, Kevin G. Cannariato, Ingrid L. Hendy,and Richard J. Behl (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2002)
reviewed by Gerald R. Dickens
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Browsings

Science 28 November 2003; 302 (5650): 1507
Almost Heaven. The Story of Women in Space, by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles (Basic Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Yes, Things Really Are Going Faster

Science 31 January 2003; 299 (5607): 663
The Extravagant Universe. Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos, by Robert P. Kirshner (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by Michael S. Turner
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The Crucial 80% of Life's Epic

Science 15 August 2003; 301 (5635): 919
Life on a Young Planet. The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, by Andrew H. Knoll (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003)
reviewed by Guy M. Narbonne
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Fielding Biology

Science 14 March 2003; 299 (5613): 1665
Landscapes and Labscapes. Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology, by Robert E. Kohler (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
reviewed by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
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So Many People, So Little Water

Science 23 May 2003; 300 (5623): 1238
Fuel for Growth. Water and Arizona's Urban Environment, by Douglas E. Kupel (University of Arizona, Tucson, 2003)
reviewed by A. Scott Henderson
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Browsings

Science 18 July 2003; 301 (5631): 314a
Oxygen. The Molecule That Made the World, by Nick Lane (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 26 September 2003; 301 (5641): 1850b
Babylon to Voyager and Beyond. A History of Planetary Astronomy, by David Leverington (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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All Knowledge Is Local

Science 5 December 2003; 302 (5651): 1683
Putting Science in Its Place. Geographies of Scientific Knowledge, by David N. Livingstone (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003)
reviewed by Cristina González
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Symbol of Perfect Proportions

Science 14 February 2003; 299 (5609): 1016
The Golden Ratio. The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number, by Mario Livio (Broadway Books, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Eli Maor
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The Ancients' Views of Science

Science 25 July 2003; 301 (5632): 464
The Way and the Word. Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece, by Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002)
reviewed by Bridie Andrews
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Watson's World

Science 18 April 2003; 300 (5618): 432
Watson and DNA. Making a Scientific Revolution, by Victor K. McElheny (Perseus, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by M. Susan Lindee
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A Case for Constraints

Science 14 November 2003; 302 (5648): 1155
Enough. Staying Human in an Engineered Age, by Bill McKibben (Times Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Timothy Lenoir
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Can One Forget to Remember?

Science 25 July 2003; 301 (5632): 465
Remembering Trauma, by Richard J. McNally (Belknap, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Stephen J. Ceci
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Romancing the Hole

Science 18 July 2003; 301 (5631): 314b
The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy, by Fulvio Melia (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003)
reviewed by Linda Rowan
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Thoughts Without a Thinker

Science 3 October 2003; 302 (5642): 61
Being No One. The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, by Thomas Metzinger (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Franz Mechsner and Albert Newen
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Making Evo-Devo Comparative

Science 13 June 2003; 300 (5626): 1663
The Development of Animal Form. Ontogeny, Morphology, and Evolution, by Alessandro Minelli (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003)
reviewed by David B. Wake
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Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of

Science 19 September 2003; 301 (5640): 1675
Where Stuff Comes From. How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, and Many Other Things Come to Be As They Are, by Harvey Molotch (Routledge, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Spider Robinson
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A Call to Arms

Science 25 April 2002; 300 (5619): 586
The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science, by Scott L. Montgomery (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003)
reviewed by Monique Martineau
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Spellbound

Science 28 November 2003; 302 (5650): 1508
Changing the Face of Medicine. Celebrating America's Women Physicians, by Ellen S. More and Manon Parry, Curators (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. Through 2 April 2005)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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The Goldilocks Hypothesis

Science 5 December 2003; 302 (5651): 1682
Life's Solution. Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, by Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Douglas H. Erwin
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Browsings

Science 3 January 2003; 299 (5603): 48
Mapping Mars. Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World, by Oliver Morton (Fourth Estate, London, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 3 January 2003; 299 (5603): 48
Mapping Mars. Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World, by Oliver Morton (Picador USA, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Reflections of Reflections Without End

Science 7 March 2003; 299 (5612): 1520
Indra's Pearls. The Vision of Felix Klein, by David Mumford, Caroline Series, and David Wright (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by Michael Field
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A Different Approach to Modeling

Science 24 January 2003; 299 (5606): 518
Adaptive Herbivore Ecology. From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments, by Norman Owen-Smith (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by Nils Chr. Stenseth and Atle Mysterud
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Browsings

Science 9 May 2003; 300 (5621): 908
Remarkable Trees of the World, by Thomas Pakenham (Norton, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 5 September 2003; 301 (5638): 1330
Digital Art, by Christiane Paul (Thames and Hudson, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Reflections on Lizard Diversity

Science 10 October 2003; 302 (5643): 230
Lizards. Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, by Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003)
reviewed by Martin J. Whiting
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Browsings

Science 1 August 2003; 301 (5633): 600
A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands, by Orrin H. Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser (Columbia University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Coaxing Sounds from Circuits

Science 21 February 2003; 299 (5610): 1185
Analog Days. The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002)
reviewed by Tod Machover
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From Chimpanzees to the Human Mind

Science 27 June 2003; 300 (5628): 2034a
Original Intelligence. Unlocking the Mystery of Who We Are, by David Premack and Ann Premack (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Tetsuro Matsuzawa
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A Framework for Vision's Bag of Tricks

Science 2 May 2003; 300 (5620): 742
Why We See What We Do. An Empirical Theory of Vision, by Dale Purves and R. Beau Lotto (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Vincent A. Billock
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A User's Guide to Life

Science 25 April 2002; 300 (5619): 585a
Liars, Lovers, and Heroes. What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are, by Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. Sejnowski (William Morrow, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Nathan J. Emery
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Which Future for Humanity?

Science 12 September 2003; 301 (5639): 1483b
Our Final Century. The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival, by Martin Rees (William Heinemann, London, 2003)
reviewed by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
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Which Future for Humanity?

Science 12 September 2003; 301 (5639): 1483b
Our Final Hour. A Scientist's Warning; How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyond, by Martin Rees (Basic Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
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A Premodern Synthesis

Science 24 January 2003; 299 (5606): 516
The Romantic Conception of Life. Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe, by Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002)
reviewed by Manfred D. Laubichler
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The New Interactionism

Science 20 June 2003; 300 (5627): 1879
Nature via Nurture. Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human, by Matt Ridley (HarperCollins, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Kevin N. Laland
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The New Interactionism

Science 20 June 2003; 300 (5627): 1879
Nature via Nurture. Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human, by Matt Ridley (Fourth Estate, London, 2003)
reviewed by Kevin N. Laland
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Browsings

Science 23 May 2003; 300 (5623): 1237b
Orchids of Australia, by John J. Riley and David P. Banks (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Time to Rethink Conservation Strategy

Science 6 June 2003; 300 (5625): 1508
Win-Win Ecology. How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise, by Michael L. Rosenzweig (Oxford University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Gretchen C. Daily
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Browsings

Science 26 September 2003; 301 (5641): 1850b
Writing on Air, by David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 5 December 2003; 302 (5651): 1684
Everything's Relative. And Other Fables from Science and Technology, by Tony Rothman (Wiley, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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A Bridgewater Treatise for the 21st Century

Science 22 August 2003; 301 (5636): 1051
Darwin and Design. Does Evolution Have a Purpose?, by Michael Ruse (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Robert T. Pennock
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The Art of the Oldest Science

Science 7 February 2003; 299 (5608): 829
Dream Anatomy, by Michael Sappol, Curator (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. Through 31 July 2003. www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Browsings

Science 7 February 2003; 299 (5608): 828b
Flash! The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe, by Govert Schilling (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 21 March 2003; 299 (5614): 1847
Structures of Nature. Photographs by Andreas Feininger, by N. Elizabeth Schlatter (University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 3 January 2003; 299 (5603): 48
The Restless Universe. Understanding X-ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton, by Eric M. Schlegel (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 28 February 2003; 299 (5611): 1320
How the Cows Turned Mad, by Maxime Schwartz (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003)
reviewed by staff