Books et al.
Review Index, 2007
- Matters of the Heart
- Science 12 October 2007; 318 (5848): 199
Heartfelt Emotions. A Symposium (Presented by the Wellcome Collection, London, 7-8 September 2007. www.wellcomecollection.org/assets/wtx041078.pdf)
reviewed by A. J. Wells
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- Incubating Inspiration?
- Science 21 December 2007; 318 (5858): 1871
Le Laboratoire (4 rue du Bouloi, 75001 Paris. www.lelaboratoire.org)
reviewed by Louise Whiteley
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- A Taste of the Gonzo Scientist
- Science 2 November 2007; 318 (5851): 752
A Linnean Feast
by John Bohannon
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- The Gonzo Scientist
- Science 14 September 2007; 317 (5844): 1503
A Summer Camp for Grown-Ups
by John Bohannon
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- More Means of Regulating Genes
- Science 25 May 2007; 316 (5828): 1126
Epigenetics, by C. David Allis, Thomas Jenuwein, and Danny Reinberg, Eds. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2007)
reviewed by Armelle Corpet and Geneviève Almouzni
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- Browsing
- Science 28 September 2007; 317 (5846): 1870
The Telescope. Its History, Technology, and Future, by Geoff Andersen (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- The Hippocampus Review
- Science 6 July 2007; 317 (5834): 44
The Hippocampus Book, by Per Andersen, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss, and John O'Keefe, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Terrence J. Sejnowski
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
The Canon. A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, by Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
The Canon. A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, by Natalie Angier (Faber and Faber, London, 2008)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Babies in the Bayou, by Jim Aronsky (Putnam, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Myths and Consequences
- Science 28 September 2007; 317 (5846): 1868
Aryan Idols. Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, by Stefan Arvidsson. Translated from the Swedish by Sonia Wichmann (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Michael Witzel
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Gregor Mendel. The Friar Who Grew Peas, by Cheryl Bardoe (Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York, in association with the Field Museum, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- God as Genetic Engineer
- Science 8 June 2007; 316 (5830): 1427
The Edge of Evolution. The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, by Michael J. Behe (Free Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Sean B. Carroll
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- Wittgenstein and the Brain
- Science 17 August 2007; 317 (5840): 901
Neuroscience and Philosophy. Brain, Mind, and Language, by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, and John Searle (Columbia University Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Barry Dainton
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- Browsings
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1555
When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm. A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs, by Hannah Bonner (National Geographic, Washington, DC, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd (Harper Perennial, New York, 1995)
reviewed by Colin Norman
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- The Golden Weed, America's Most Deadly Drug
- Science 4 May 2007; 316 (5825): 692
The Cigarette Century. The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, by Allan M. Brandt (Basic Books, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Robert N. Proctor
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- On Sickness and Surroundings
- Science 5 October 2007; 318 (5847): 46
Toxic Exposures. Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement, by Phil Brown (Columbia University Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Peder Anker
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Charles Darwin. The Power of Place, by Janet Browne (Knopf, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Angela Creager
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Charles Darwin. Voyaging, by Janet Browne (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996)
reviewed by Angela Creager
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (Broadway, New York, 2003)
reviewed by John Pendry
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- Tales of the Wonder Drug
- Science 24 August 2007; 317 (5841): 1037
Penicillin. Triumph and Tragedy, by Robert Bud (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Nicolas Rasmussen
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
The Shape of Life, by Nancy Burnett and Brad Matsen (Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, 2002)
reviewed by Marcia K. McNutt
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Tracking Trash. Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, by Loree Griffin Burns (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Browsings
- Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 754
Marshes. The Disappearing Edens, by William Burt (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
In the Wake of the Plague. The Black Death and the World It Made, by Norman F. Cantor (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Pam Hines
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- Dealing with Differences
- Science 23 March 2007; 315 (5819): 1668
The Measure of Merit. Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940, by John Carson (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by A. Scott Henderson
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- Can Evidence Inform the Debate?
- Science 13 July 2007; 317 (5835): 199
Why Aren't More Women in Science? Top Researchers Debate the Evidence, by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams, Eds. (American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2007)
reviewed by Marcia C. Linn
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- Perceptions of a Receptor
- Science 23 February 2007; 315 (5815): 1079
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. From Molecular Biology to Cognition, by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein (Odile Jacob, New York, 2005)
reviewed by David Colquhoun
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- Franklin's Civic Science
- Science 9 February 2007; 315 (5813): 768
The First Scientific American. Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius, by Joyce E. Chaplin (Basic Books, New York, 2006)
reviewed by H. Frederick Dylla
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- The Social Origin of Mind
- Science 7 September 2007; 317 (5843): 1326
Baboon Metaphysics. The Evolution of a Social Mind, by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Alison Jolly
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- A Company with Great Impact
- Science 16 November 2007; 318 (5853): 1071
Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Knowledge, Trust, Profit and the Transformation of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880-1940, by Roy Church and E. M. Tansey (Crucible Books, Lancaster, UK, 2007)
reviewed by Anna E. Simmons
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- Moving Toward Security
- Science 3 August 2007; 317 (5838): 599
Bomb Scare. The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, by Joseph Cirincione (Columbia University Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Christopher F. Chyba
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- Genetically Capitalist?
- Science 19 October 2007; 318 (5849): 394
A Farewell to Alms. A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Samuel Bowles
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- Browsing
- Science 25 May 2007; 316 (5828): 1127
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, by William Clark (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by staff
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- Sparrow Wars, Reptilian Eucalypts, and Xenophobes
- Science 27 April 2007; 316 (5824): 544
American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species. Strangers on the Land, by Peter A. Coates (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006)
reviewed by Jessica Gurevitch
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- Bumpy Road to Vaccination Policies
- Science 1 June 2007; 316 (5829): 1287
State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America, by James Colgrove (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006)
reviewed by Rino Rappuoli
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- Placebo or Protector?
- Science 6 April 2007; 316 (5821): 55
Dr. Golem. How to Think About Medicine, by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005)
reviewed by Rachel A. Ankeny
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Tuxedo Park. A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, by Jennet Conant (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002)
reviewed by John Brauman
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- Pop Fly
- Science 24 August 2007; 317 (5841): 1038
Fly, by Steven Connor (Reaktion, London, 2006)
reviewed by May Berenbaum
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- Science, the Fruit of Commerce
- Science 18 May 2007; 316 (5827): 983
Matters of Exchange. Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, by Harold J. Cook (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007)
reviewed by Jonathan I. Israel
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- Metaphors Be with You
- Science 9 February 2007; 315 (5813): 767
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, by Robert Crawford, Ed. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006)
reviewed by Diane Ackerman
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- Astronomers' Relativity
- Science 16 February 2007; 315 (5814): 942
Einstein's Jury. The Race to Test Relativity, by Jeffrey Crelinsten (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006)
reviewed by Peter Galison
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches, by Charles Darwin (Penguin, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Pam Hines
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
The Ancestor's Tale. A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004)
reviewed by Roger Glass
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- Arguing for Atheism
- Science 26 January 2007; 315 (5811): 463
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (Bantam, London, 2006)
reviewed by Michael Shermer
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- Arguing for Atheism
- Science 26 January 2007; 315 (5811): 463
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006)
reviewed by Michael Shermer
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif (Harcourt, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Daniel Koshland
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- The Productivity of Prediction and Explanation
- Science 7 September 2007; 317 (5843): 1327
The Intelligibility of Nature. How Science Makes Sense of the World, by Peter Dear (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Matthew L. Jones
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- The Disaster Business
- Science 28 September 2007; 317 (5846): 1869
Scénario Catastrophe, by Christian Delécraz, Laurie Durussel, and Alessia Fondrini, curators (Musée d'Ethnographie, Genève, Switzerland, through 6 January 2008. www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/ethg/expo06_uk.php)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- The Disaster Business
- Science 28 September 2007; 317 (5846): 1869
Scénario Catastrophe, by Christian Delécraz and Laurie Durussel, Eds. (Infolio, Gollion, Switzerland, 2007)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Dinosaur Eggs Discovered! Unscrambling the Clues, by Lowell Dingus, Luis M. Chiappe, and Rodolfo Coria (Twenty-First Century, Minneapolis, MN, 2008)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Otherness--When Killing Is Easy
- Science 2 February 2007; 315 (5812): 601
The Altruism Equation. Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness, by Lee Alan Dugatkin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- Browsings
- Science 16 March 2007; 315 (5818): 1500
The Shock of the Old. Technology and Global History Since 1900, by David Edgerton (Oxford University Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- Browsings
- Science 16 March 2007; 315 (5818): 1500
The Shock of the Old. Technology and Global History Since 1900, by David Edgerton (Profile, London, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Hard Rain. Our Headlong Collision with Nature, by Mark Edwards and Lloyd Timberlake (Gardners, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK, 2006)
reviewed by Robert May
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- Scientia Sinesis
- Science 12 January 2007; 315 (5809): 188
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China, by Benjamin A. Elman (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006)
reviewed by Thomas S. Mullaney
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. The Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life, by Jim Endersby (Random House, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Angela Creager
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- Arguing for Computational Power
- Science 9 November 2007; 318 (5852): 918
Generative Social Science. Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling, by Joshua M. Epstein (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006)
reviewed by Daniel Diermeier
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- Browsing
- Science 23 November 2007; 318 (5854): 1245a
Hispaniola. A Photographic Journey Through Island Biodiversity, Biodiversidad a Través de un Recorrido Fotográfico, by Eladio Fernández, Ed. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- Passage to Global Stem Cells
- Science 20 July 2007; 317 (5836): 322
Cell of Cells. The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell, by Cynthia Fox (Norton, New York, 2007)
reviewed by M. Ian Phillips
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- The Universal Darwinism of Disease
- Science 16 November 2007; 318 (5853): 1070
Dynamics of Cancer. Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution, by Steven A. Frank (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by David C. Krakauer
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- Tales of a Small, But Crucial, Fish
- Science 2 November 2007; 318 (5851): 750
The Most Important Fish in the Sea. Menhaden and America, by H. Bruce Franklin (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2007)
reviewed by Daniel Pauly
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- Life in the Really Hard Places
- Science 14 December 2007; 318 (5857): 1727
The Third Domain. The Untold Story of Archaea and the Future of Biotechnology, by Tim Friend (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2007)
reviewed by Tom Schmidt
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Stellar Science Projects About Earth's Sky, by Robert Gardner (Enslow Elementary, Berkeley Heights, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- From the Big Bang to the Mind
- Science 13 April 2007; 316 (5822): 203
Orion, by Cesc Gelabert and the Gelabert-Azzopardi Dance Company (Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, Spain. 22 February-4 March 2007. www.gelabertazzopardi.com/pagines/english/orion.htm)
reviewed by John Bohannon
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- The World of Science
- Science 11 May 2007; 316 (5826): 834
Scientific Perspectivism, by Ronald N. Giere (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Peter Lipton
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Blink. The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Brian H. Davison
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Blink. The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Shirley Malcom
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
Genius. The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, by James Gleick (Knopf, New York, 1992)
reviewed by Ed Wasserman
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- Developing a Different Perspective on Disease
- Science 2 February 2007; 315 (5812): 600
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006)
reviewed by Linda Adair
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- Browsings
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1555
Great Estimations, by Bruce Goldstone (Holt, New York, 2006)
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
Intuition, by Allegra Goodman (Dell, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Donald Kennedy
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- Just Another Bomb?
- Science 3 August 2007; 317 (5838): 598
Five Days in August. How World War II Became a Nuclear War, by Michael D. Gordin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by John Krige
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- Relativists, Skepticism, and Waves
- Science 26 October 2007; 318 (5850): 572
Traveling at the Speed of Thought. Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves, by Michael D. Gordin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Daniel Kennefick
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- Trying to Get Us to Change Course
- Science 13 July 2007; 317 (5835): 198
An Inconvenient Truth. The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore (Rodale, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Rush Holt
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- Because Computers Don't Compost
- Science 4 May 2007; 316 (5825): 693
High Tech Trash. Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, by Elizabeth Grossman (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2006)
reviewed by Robin Nagle
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- Trying to Get Us to Change Course
- Science 13 July 2007; 317 (5835): 198
An Inconvenient Truth, by Davis Guggenheim, Director (Paramount Classics, Hollywood, CA, 2006. 97 minutes. DVD, $29.99. www.climatecrisis.net/)
reviewed by Rush Holt
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- The Most Fragile of Newborns
- Science 20 April 2007; 316 (5823): 374
Baby at Risk. The Uncertain Legacies of Medical Miracles for Babies, Families, and Society, by Ruth Levy Guyer (Capital Books, Sterling, VA, 2006)
reviewed by Scott A. Lorch
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- Putting the Pieces Together
- Science 14 September 2007; 317 (5844): 1502
Fins into Limbs. Evolution, Development, and Transformation, by Brian K. Hall, Ed. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Alan C. Love
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- Explaining Floral Diversity
- Science 22 June 2007; 316 (5832): 1700
Ecology and Evolution of Flowers, by Lawrence D. Harder and Spencer C. H. Barrett, Eds. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006)
reviewed by Beryl B. Simpson
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- How a Race Was Won
- Science 5 October 2007; 318 (5847): 48
Epic Rivalry. The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race, by Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman (National Geographic, Washington, DC, 2007)
reviewed by Joanne Baker
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- Because Science Matters
- Science 1 June 2007; 316 (5829): 1286
A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media. Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists, by Richard Hayes and Daniel Grossman (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2006)
reviewed by Barbara Kline Pope
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
The Fall of the Roman Empire. A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, by Peter Heather (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)
reviewed by Peter Stern
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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Being Caribou. Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd, by Karsten Heuer (Walker, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Who Watches the Watcher?
- Science 25 May 2007; 316 (5828): 1125
I Am a Strange Loop, by Douglas Hofstadter (Basic Books, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Christoph C. Adami
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- What Flowed from "Surveys Say…"
- Science 30 March 2007; 315 (5820): 1793
The Averaged American. Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, by Sarah E. Igo (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Tom W. Smith
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- Fame, Philosophy, and Physics
- Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 752
Einstein. His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Jeroen van Dongen
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- Fame, Philosophy, and Physics
- Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 752
Einstein. His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson (Simon and Schuster, London, 2007)
reviewed by Jeroen van Dongen
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Colin Norman
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- Showing Some Skin
- Science 2 March 2007; 315 (5816): 1223
Skin. A Natural History, by Nina G. Jablonski (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2006)
reviewed by Qais Al-Awqati
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- Devoted to Dogs
- Science 6 July 2007; 317 (5834): 45
The Behavioural Biology of Dogs, by Per Jensen, Ed. (CABI, Wallingford, UK, 2007)
reviewed by Elaine A. Ostrander
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- How Far Can We Go with Reason?
- Science 30 March 2007; 315 (5820): 1794
How We Reason, by Philip N. Johnson-Laird (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006)
reviewed by Robert J. Sternberg
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- Browsing
- Science 2 February 2007; 315 (5812): 602
Born of Fire: The Valley of Work. Industrial Scenes of Southwestern Pennsylvania, by Barbara L. Jones, with Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr (Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, 2006)
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- Otherness--When Killing Is Easy
- Science 2 February 2007; 315 (5812): 601
Conflict, by Martin Jones and A. C. Fabian, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- The World Measurers
- Science 27 July 2007; 317 (5837): 454b
Measuring the World. A Novel, by Daniel Kehlmann (Pantheon, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- The World Measurers
- Science 27 July 2007; 317 (5837): 454b
Measuring the World. A Novel, by Daniel Kehlmann (Quercus, London, 2007)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- Breaking the Embargo
- Science 19 January 2007; 315 (5810): 331
Embargoed Science, by Vincent Kiernan (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2006)
reviewed by Richard Horton
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- Browsings
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1555
Germ Stories, by Arthur Kornberg (University Science Books, Sausalito, CA, 2007)
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- Fragile Frontiers in the Abyss
- Science 20 July 2007; 317 (5836): 321a
The Silent Deep. The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea, by Tony Koslow (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Cindy Lee Van Dover
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- Fragile Frontiers in the Abyss
- Science 20 July 2007; 317 (5836): 321a
The Silent Deep. The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea, by Tony Koslow (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia, 2007)
reviewed by Cindy Lee Van Dover
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- The U.S. in the Rebuilding of European Science
- Science 31 August 2007; 317 (5842): 1173
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe, by John Krige (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006)
reviewed by Jean-Paul Gaudillière
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- Why People Turn to Bombs
- Science 14 December 2007; 318 (5857): 1726
What Makes a Terrorist. Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, by Alan B. Krueger (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
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- The Culture of Cell Culture
- Science 15 June 2007; 316 (5831): 1568
Culturing Life. How Cells Became Technologies, by Hannah Landecker (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by M. Susan Lindee
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- Browsing
- Science 5 January 2007; 315 (5808): 43a
Life. A Journey Through Time, by Frans Lanting, edited by Christine Eckstrom (Taschen, Cologne, 2006)
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- An Alternative Synthesis
- Science 26 October 2007; 318 (5850): 571
From Embryology to Evo-Devo. A History of Developmental Evolution, by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Ron Amundson
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Kari Stefansson
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Freakonomics. A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. 2nd ed., by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (HarperCollins, New York, 2006)
reviewed by David Bloom
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis (Signet, New York, 1998)
reviewed by Daniel Koshland
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- Bringing Down the House to Add a (Nice) Room
- Science 12 January 2007; 315 (5809): 189
Deflecting Immigration. Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles, by Ivan Light (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Saskia Sassen
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- Postgenomic Musings
- Science 31 August 2007; 317 (5842): 1172
The Origins of Genome Architecture, by Michael Lynch (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Massimo Pigliucci
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
1491. New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles Mann (Knopf, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Katrina Kelner
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
The Family That Couldn't Sleep. A Medical Mystery, by D. T. Max (Random House, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Guy Riddihough
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- Remodeled Foundations
- Science 22 June 2007; 316 (5832): 1699
Theoretical Ecology. Principles and Applications. 3rd ed., by Robert M. May and Angela R. McLean, Eds. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Simon A. Levin
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- Variations on a Theorem
- Science 5 October 2007; 318 (5847): 47
A Disappearing Number, by conceived and directed by Simon McBurney, devised by Complicite (Co-produced by Complicite, barbicanbite07, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, Ruhrfestspiele, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth. Barbican Theatre, London. Through 6 October 2007. www.complicite.org/productions/detail.html?id=43)
reviewed by Louise Whiteley
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- Simple Maths for a Perplexing World
- Science 9 November 2007; 318 (5852): 919
Mathematical Models of Social Evolution. A Guide for the Perplexed, by Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Daniel J. Rankin
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Saturday, by Ian McEwan (Doubleday, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
On Food and Cooking. The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. 2nd ed., by Harold McGee (Scribner, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Ed Wasserman
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- Folsom Points
- Science 15 June 2007; 316 (5831): 1569
Folsom. New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill, by David J. Meltzer (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006)
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