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Getting Things Right

Science 3 December 2004; 306 (5702): 1684
The Physiology of Truth. Neuroscience and Human Knowledge, by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated by M. B. DeBevoise (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Ralph Adolphs and James Woodward
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Danger in Wonderland

Science 20 February 2004; 303 (5661): 1141
The Matrix. The Matrix Reloaded. The Matrix Revolutions, by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski (Warner Brothers, 1999, 2003, and 2003)
reviewed by Matthew L. Albert
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Horrible Achievement

Science 23 January 2004; 303 (5657): 474
Bodysnatchers, by (BBC1. Aired November, December 2003)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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Pain Viewed Dispassionately

Science 7 May 2004; 304 (5672): 826
Pain. Passion, Compassion, Sensibility, by Javier Moscoso, Curator (A Wellcome Trust exhibition at the Science Museum, London. 12 February to 20 June 2004)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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Pain Viewed Dispassionately

Science 7 May 2004; 304 (5672): 826
Pain. Passion, Compassion, Sensibility, by (Wellcome Trust, London, 2004)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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The Havock, Distraction, and Fury

Science 5 March 2004; 303 (5663): 1471
The Storm, by Daniel Defoe. Richard Hamblyn, Ed. (Penguin, London, 2003)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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A Decktop View of Overfishing

Science 27 August 2004; 305 (5688): 1242
Trawler. A Journey Through the North Atlantic, by Redmond O'Hanlon (Hamish Hamilton, London, 2003)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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A Decktop View of Overfishing

Science 27 August 2004; 305 (5688): 1242
Trawler. A Journey Through the North Atlantic, by Redmond O'Hanlon (Penguin, London, 2004)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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A Decktop View of Overfishing

Science 27 August 2004; 305 (5688): 1242
Trawler. A Journey Through the North Atlantic, by Redmond O'Hanlon (Knopf, New York, forthcoming)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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A Most Productive Passion for Natural History

Science 13 February 2004; 303 (5660): 958
For Love of Insects, by Thomas Eisner (The Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Ian T. Baldwin
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A History Recorded in the Margins

Science 30 April 2004; 304 (5671): 686
The Book Nobody Read. Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich (Walker, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Peter Barker
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Dispelling Rumors of a Gene Shortage

Science 11 June 2004; 304 (5677): 1601
The Birth of the Mind. How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought, by Gary Marcus (Basic Books, New York, 2004)
reviewed by H. Clark Barrett
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Visions of the Milky Way

Science 26 March 2004; 303 (5666): 1979
Via Lactea, by Francesco Bertola (Biblos, Cittadella, Italy, 2003)
reviewed by Giovanni F. Bignami
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How Species Arise

Science 30 July 2004; 305 (5684): 612
Speciation, by Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr (Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Benjamin K. Blackman and Loren H. Rieseberg
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Biography of a Brilliant Birdwatcher

Science 20 February 2004; 303 (5661): 1140
Niko's Nature. A Life of Niko Tinbergen and His Science of Animal Behaviour, by Hans Kruuk (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003)
reviewed by Johan J. Bolhuis
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Solid Tools for Visualizing Science

Science 12 November 2004; 306 (5699): 1136
Models. The Third Dimension of Science, by Soraya de Chadarevian and Nick Hopwood, Eds. (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2004)
reviewed by Julie K. Brown
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Guidebook for a Grand Tour

Science 18 June 2004; 304 (5678): 1748
The Earth. An Intimate History, by Richard Fortey (HarperCollins, London, 2004)
reviewed by Kevin Burke
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Guidebook for a Grand Tour

Science 18 June 2004; 304 (5678): 1748
The Earth. An Intimate History, by Richard Fortey (Knopf, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Kevin Burke
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Hunting for Origins

Science 30 July 2004; 305 (5684): 613
On the Origin of Phyla, by James W. Valentine (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004)
reviewed by R. Andrew Cameron
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Constraining Webs

Science 9 January 2004; 303 (5655): 175a
Spiderwebs and Silk. Tracing Evolution from Molecules to Genes, by Catherine L. Craig (Oxford University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by James E. Carrel
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Many Perspectives, No Consensus

Science 27 February 2004; 303 (5662): 1299
Language Evolution, by Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby, Eds. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003)
reviewed by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
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Molecular Topographies

Science 20 August 2004; 305 (5687): 1108a
Energy Landscapes. Applications to Clusters, Biomolecules and Glasses, by David J. Wales (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004)
reviewed by David C. Clary
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An Open Sandwich or an Open Question?

Science 16 July 2004; 305 (5682): 344
Do Animals Think?, by Clive D. L. Wynne (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Nicola S. Clayton
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The Natural Forces of Metaphor

Science 25 June 2004; 304 (5679): 1907
Conserving Words. How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement, by Daniel J. Philippon (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2004)
reviewed by Christopher Cokinos
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Something Warm, Something New

Science 30 April 2004; 304 (5671): 685
The Discovery of Global Warming, by Spencer R. Weart (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Thomas J. Crowley
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How Best to Face the Coming Storm

Science 17 September 2004; 305 (5691): 1716a
Red Sky at Morning. America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James Gustave Speth (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004)
reviewed by Partha Dasgupta
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How Life Makes Hard Stuff

Science 23 July 2004; 305 (5683): 480
Biomineralization, by Patricia M. Dove, James J. De Yoreo, and Steve Weiner, Eds. (Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, Washington, DC, 2003)
reviewed by Mark E. Davis
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Charting Our Extraterrestrial Efforts

Science 5 March 2004; 303 (5663): 1470
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space. Missions, Applications and Exploration, by Fernand Verger, Isabelle Sourbčs-Verger, and Raymond Ghirardi (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by David DeVorkin
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Lessons from Primates

Science 15 October 2004; 306 (5695): 413
Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings, by Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003)
reviewed by Francine Dolins
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More Than Metaphorical Power?

Science 19 November 2004; 306 (5700): 1294
Nature. An Economic History, by Geerat J. Vermeij (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Douglas H. Erwin
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Tricking Our Vision

Science 26 November 2004; 306 (5701): 1480
Eyes, Lies and Illusions, by Werner Nekes and Marina Warner, curators (Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London. Through 2 January 2005. www.hayward.org.uk)
reviewed by Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink
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Tricking Our Vision

Science 26 November 2004; 306 (5701): 1480
Eyes, Lies and Illusions. Drawn from the Werner Nekes Collection, by Laurent Mannoni, Werner Nekes, and Marina Warner (Hayward Gallery, London, 2004)
reviewed by Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink
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An Ancient Lineage Worth Saving

Science 21 May 2004; 304 (5674): 1113
The American Horseshoe Crab, by Carl N. Shuster Jr., Robert B. Barlow, and H. Jane Brockmann, Eds. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by Mark S. Garland
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Stressed for Success

Science 3 December 2004; 306 (5702): 1685a
School of Dreams. Making the Grade at a Top American High School, by Edward Humes (Harcourt, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Bryan Garman
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A Centenarian's Summary

Science 22 October 2004; 306 (5696): 614
What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline, by Ernst Mayr (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Matthias Glaubrecht
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Promises and Perils of Technology's Future

Science 30 January 2004; 303 (5658): 629
Living with the Genie. Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery, by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, and Christina Desser, Eds. (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003)
reviewed by Michael A. Goldman
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Knowledge, Wisdom, and Luck

Science 9 April 2004; 304 (5668): 213
The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity. A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science, by Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Cristina González
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Parallel Worlds

Science 10 December 2004; 306 (5703): 1893a
János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space, by Jeremy J. Gray (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvęa
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The Value of Things to Come

Science 10 September 2004; 305 (5690): 1568
Human-Built World. How to Think about Technology and Culture, by Thomas P. Hughes (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004)
reviewed by Domenico Grasso
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One Path Through Los Alamos

Science 12 November 2004; 306 (5699): 1137
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, by David C. Cassidy (Pi Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Gregg Herken
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Culture and Commerce in a Seafood Bazaar

Science 17 September 2004; 305 (5691): 1716b
Tsukiji. The Fish Market at the Center of the World, by Theodore C. Bestor (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004)
reviewed by Stephen Gudeman
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Life's Daily Beat

Science 25 June 2004; 304 (5679): 1906
Rhythms of Life. The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, by Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman (Profile, London, 2004)
reviewed by Eberhard Gwinner
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Life's Daily Beat

Science 25 June 2004; 304 (5679): 1906
Rhythms of Life. The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, by Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004)
reviewed by Eberhard Gwinner
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Seeing Through the Steam of Consciousness

Science 2 April 2004; 304 (5667): 52
The Quest for Consciousness. A Neurobiological Approach, by Christof Koch (Roberts, Englewood, CO, 2004)
reviewed by Patrick Haggard
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Smoke No Longer Gets in Your Eyes

Science 16 April 2004; 304 (5669): 392
Devastation and Renewal. An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region, by Joel A. Tarr, Ed. (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2003)
reviewed by A. Scott Henderson
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The Tale Behind the Worm

Science 2 January 2004; 303 (5654): 42
In the Beginning Was the Worm. Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite, by Andrew Brown (Columbia University Press, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Robert K. Herman
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The Tale Behind the Worm

Science 2 January 2004; 303 (5654): 42
In the Beginning Was the Worm. Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite, by Andrew Brown (Simon and Schuster, London, 2003)
reviewed by Robert K. Herman
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Building Circuits of Trust

Science 10 September 2004; 305 (5690): 1569
The Morals of Measurement. Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice, by Graeme J. N. Gooday (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004)
reviewed by Sungook Hong
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New Insights from a Classic System

Science 16 July 2004; 305 (5682): 345
A Genetic Switch. 3rd ed. Phage Lambda Revisited, by Mark Ptashne (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2004)
reviewed by Terence Hwa
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A Checkered History

Science 24 September 2004; 305 (5692): 1913
On the Wings of Checkerspots. A Model System for Population Biology, by Paul R. Ehrlich and Ilkka Hanski, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Chris D. Jiggins
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The Wide Spectrum of Sex and Gender

Science 14 May 2004; 304 (5673): 965
Evolution's Rainbow. Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, by Joan Roughgarden (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004)
reviewed by Alison Jolly
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Toward Better Drugs for Less

Science 24 December 2004; 306 (5705): 2192
Powerful Medicines. The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs, by Jerry Avorn (Knopf, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Daniel Philip Kessler
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Toward Better Drugs for Less

Science 24 December 2004; 306 (5705): 2192
The Truth About the Drug Companies. How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It, by Marcia Angell (Random House, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Daniel Philip Kessler
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Science Weighs in on the Scales of Justice

Science 15 October 2004; 306 (5695): 412
Laboratory of Justice. The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law, by David L. Faigman (Times Books, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
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Science Weighs in on the Scales of Justice

Science 15 October 2004; 306 (5695): 412
Laws of Men and Laws of Nature. The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America, by Tal Golan (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
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PET Pictures

Science 4 June 2004; 304 (5676): 1451
Picturing Personhood. Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity, by Joseph Dumit (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
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Our Once and Future Fate

Science 13 August 2004; 305 (5686): 947
One with Nineveh. Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future, by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004)
reviewed by Ann Kinzig
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Was the Culprit Climate or Culture?

Science 2 July 2004; 305 (5680): 45
Neanderthals and Modern Humans. An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective, by Clive Finlayson (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Richard G. Klein
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Thinking About the Conscious Mind

Science 5 November 2004; 306 (5698): 979
Mind. A Brief Introduction, by John R. Searle (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Christof Koch
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Tragedy Averted

Science 18 June 2004; 304 (5678): 1747
Karl Pearson. The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, by Theodore M. Porter (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Manfred D. Laubichler
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Failure in Many Forms

Science 16 January 2004; 303 (5656): 314
Why Things Break. Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart, by Mark E. Eberhart (Harmony Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Marc Lavine
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Thinking About Caring About Animals

Science 1 October 2004; 306 (5693): 58
Animal Rights. Current Debates and New Directions, by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by David Magnus
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Weighing the Evidence

Science 26 November 2004; 306 (5701): 1478
The Nature of Scientific Evidence. Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations, by Mark L. Taper and Subhash R. Lele, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004)
reviewed by Marc Mangel
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Circumferential Curiosities

Science 10 December 2004; 306 (5703): 1894
Π. A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number, by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann (Prometheus, Amherst, NY, 2004)
reviewed by Eli Maor
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Programs of the Mind

Science 4 June 2004; 304 (5676): 1450
What Is Thought?, by Eric B. Baum (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Gary Marcus
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God Bless Us, Every One

Science 19 March 2004; 303 (5665): 1774
Mutants. On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, by Armand Marie Leroi (Viking, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Monique Martineau
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Markets and Where They Came From

Science 19 November 2004; 306 (5700): 1293
Microeconomics. Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, by Samuel Bowles (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Eric Maskin
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Human Impact on the Chinese Landscape

Science 16 April 2004; 304 (5669): 391
The Retreat of the Elephants. An Environmental History of China, by Mark Elvin (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004)
reviewed by J. R. McNeill
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Life from Repeated Parts

Science 29 October 2004; 306 (5697): 814
Modularity in Development and Evolution, by Gerhard Schlosser and Günter P. Wagner, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004)
reviewed by Lauren Ancel Meyers
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Continuing the Debate on Words and Seeds

Science 27 February 2004; 303 (5662): 1298a
Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew, Eds. (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 2002)
reviewed by Steven Mithen
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On the Power to Create

Science 1 October 2004; 306 (5693): 59
Promethean Ambitions. Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature, by William R. Newman (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004)
reviewed by Iwan Rhys Morus
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Looking for Life in Far Distant Places

Science 12 March 2004; 303 (5664): 1614
Lonely Planets. The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life, by David Grinspoon (Ecco, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Larry R. Nittler
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Measuring the Unthinkable

Science 19 March 2004; 303 (5665): 1772
Whole World on Fire. Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, by Lynn Eden (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2004)
reviewed by Janne E. Nolan
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Shapes of a Wedge

Science 7 May 2004; 304 (5672): 825
Creationism's Trojan Horse. The Wedge of Intelligent Design, by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Steve Olson
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Shapes of a Wedge

Science 7 May 2004; 304 (5672): 825
Darwinism, Design, and Public Education, by John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer, Eds. (Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 2004)
reviewed by Steve Olson
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Shapes of a Wedge

Science 7 May 2004; 304 (5672): 825
God, the Devil, and Darwin. A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory, by Niall Shanks (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Steve Olson
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A Call for a Collective

Science 27 August 2004; 305 (5688): 1241a
Politics of Nature. How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, by Bruno Latour (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Naomi Oreskes
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Of Politics and Particle Physics

Science 22 October 2004; 306 (5696): 615
A Hole in Texas. A Novel, by Herman Wouk (Little, Brown, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Jay M. Pasachoff
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A New Synthesis or Just The New Synthesis?

Science 28 May 2004; 304 (5675): 1249
The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds, by Ian Newton (Academic Press, San Diego, 2003)
reviewed by A. Townsend Peterson
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Changing Genes to Feed the World

Science 29 October 2004; 306 (5697): 815
Mendel in the Kitchen. A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods, by Nina Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2004)
reviewed by David Pimentel
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Murder They Wrote

Science 24 December 2004; 306 (5705): 2193
A Cultural History of Causality. Science, Murder, Novels, and Systems of Thought, by Stephen Kern (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004)
reviewed by Richard A. Posner
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Beauty or Brains?

Science 6 August 2004; 305 (5685): 779
The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain, by Robert L. Solso (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004)
reviewed by V. S. Ramachandran
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Health Care in the Service of Science?

Science 12 March 2004; 303 (5664): 1613
What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative, by Daniel Callahan (University of California Press, Berkeley, and The Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Uwe E. Reinhardt
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The First Lord from Science

Science 3 September 2004; 305 (5689): 1406
Degrees Kelvin. A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy, by David Lindley (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2004)
reviewed by John S. Rigden
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An Island of Evolutionary Exuberance

Science 2 April 2004; 304 (5667): 53
The Natural History of Madagascar, by Steven M. Goodman and Jonathan P. Benstead, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003)
reviewed by John G. Robinson
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Meanings of a Meltdown, After the Facts

Science 9 July 2004; 305 (5681): 181
Three Mile Island. A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, by J. Samuel Walker (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004)
reviewed by Gene I. Rochlin
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Food for the Gods

Science 21 May 2004; 304 (5674): 1112
The Art of Rice. Spirit and Sustenance in Asia, by Roy W. Hamilton et al. (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2004)
reviewed by Pamela Ronald
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A Broad Look at Tree-Building

Science 6 February 2004; 303 (5659): 767
Inferring Phylogenies, by Joseph Felsenstein (Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2004)
reviewed by Fredrik Ronquist
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Infinite Confusion

Science 16 January 2004; 303 (5656): 313a
Everything and More. A Compact History of ∞, by David Foster Wallace (Norton, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Rudy Rucker
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Infinite Confusion

Science 16 January 2004; 303 (5656): 313a
Everything and More. A Compact History of ∞, by David Foster Wallace (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2003)
reviewed by Rudy Rucker
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Optimized for Chewing

Science 17 December 2004; 306 (5704): 2045
Dental Functional Morphology. How Teeth Work, by Peter W. Lucas (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004)
reviewed by Natalia Rybczynski
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Clustering Concepts

Science 6 February 2004; 303 (5659): 768
RefViz 1.0, by (Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, Berkeley, CA, 2003)
reviewed by Brian Simboli and Min Zhang
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Reading Between the Lines

Science 5 November 2004; 306 (5698): 980
An Elusive Victorian. The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace, by Martin Fichman (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004)
reviewed by Charlotte Sleigh
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A Bridge Too Far?

Science 6 August 2004; 305 (5685): 780
His Brother's Keeper. A Story from the Edge of Medicine, by Jonathan Weiner (Ecco, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Education Can Be Fun

Science 20 August 2004; 305 (5687): 1108b
Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences, by (6th and E Streets NW, Washington, DC. www.koshland-science-museum.org)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Moving Mountains

Science 13 February 2004; 303 (5660): 960
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (Broadway Books, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Moving Mountains

Science 13 February 2004; 303 (5660): 960
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, London, 2003)
reviewed by Orla Smith
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Messing with Common Sense

Science 2 July 2004; 305 (5680): 44
Defending Science--Within Reason. Between Scientism and Cynicism, by Susan Haack (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2003)
reviewed by Miriam Solomon
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Browsings

Science 27 February 2004; 303 (5662): 1298b
Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, by Joan Aruz, Ed., with Ronald Wallenfels (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 24 December 2004; 306 (5705): 2194
Beyond Measure. Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, by Jim Baggott (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 10 September 2004; 305 (5690): 1570
Brick. A World History, by James W. P. Campbell; photographs by Will Pryce (Thames and Hudson, London, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 11 June 2004; 304 (5677): 1602
The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China. The Flowering of Early Animal Life, by Hou Xian-Guang, Richard J. Aldridge, Jan Bergström, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter, and Feng Xiang-Hong (Blackwell, Oxford, 2004)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 19 March 2004; 303 (5665): 1773
Face to Face with the Bomb. Nuclear Reality After the Cold War, by Paul Shambroom (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 9 January 2004; 303 (5655): 175b
The Fossils of Florissant, by Herbert W. Meyer (Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 13 February 2004; 303 (5660): 959
Insect Development and Evolution, by Bruce S. Heming (Comstock, Ithaca, NY, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 10 September 2004; 305 (5690): 1570
Inventing for the Environment, by Arthur Molella and Joyce Bedi, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 3 December 2004; 306 (5702): 1685b
The Jehol Biota. The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants, by Mee-mann Chang et al., Eds. (Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers, Shanghai, 2004)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 10 December 2004; 306 (5703): 1893b
M. C. Escher. Visions of Symmetry. 2nd ed., by Doris Schattschneider (Abrams, New York, 2004)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 11 June 2004; 304 (5677): 1602
The New Quantum Universe, by Tony Hey and Patrick Walters (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 27 February 2004; 303 (5662): 1300a
The New World's Old World. Photographic Views of Ancient America, by May Castleberry, Ed. (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 13 February 2004; 303 (5660): 959
Night Visions. The Secret Designs of Moths, by Joseph Scheer (Prestel, Munich, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 19 March 2004; 303 (5665): 1773
100 Suns, by Michael Light (Knopf, New York, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 19 March 2004; 303 (5665): 1773
100 Suns, by Michael Light (Jonathan Cape, London, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 24 December 2004; 306 (5705): 2194
The Physics of Skiing. Skiing at the Triple Point. 2nd ed., by David A. Lind and Scott P. Sanders (Springer, New York, 2004)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 May 2004; 304 (5673): 966
Plant Discoveries. A Botanist's Voyage Through Plant Exploration, by Sandra Knapp (Firefly, Toronto, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 14 May 2004; 304 (5673): 966
Potted Histories. An Artistic Voyage Through Plant Exploration, by Sandra Knapp (Scriptum, London, 2003)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 24 December 2004; 306 (5705): 2194
Rapture of the Deep. The Art of Ray Troll, by Ray Troll and Brad Matsen (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2004)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 23 January 2004; 303 (5657): 473
The Sandwalk Adventures. An Adventure in Evolution Told in Five Chapters, by Jay Hosler (Active Synapse, Columbus, OH, 2003)
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