Books et al.
Review Index, 2007
- All Is Not Always Lost When the Center Does Not Hold
- Science 5 January 2007; 315 (5808): 42
After Collapse. The Regeneration of Complex Societies, by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols, Eds. (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2006)
reviewed by Kathleen D. Morrison
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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)
reviewed by staff
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- Alchemy and the Science of Matter
- Science 5 January 2007; 315 (5808): 43b
Atoms and Alchemy. Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution, by William R. Newman (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Pamela Smith
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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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- 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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- 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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- Language Learning Through Selection
- Science 19 January 2007; 315 (5810): 332
The Infinite Gift. How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World, by Charles D. Yang (Scribner, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Jeffrey Lidz and Lisa Pearl
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- Riffs on Numerical Themes
- Science 26 January 2007; 315 (5811): 462
Codebook, by Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet (Pi Recordings, New York, 2006)
reviewed by John Bohannon
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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)
reviewed by staff
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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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- 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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- Voices from Bird Bones
- Science 16 February 2007; 315 (5814): 941
Extinct Birds of New Zealand, by Alan Tennyson and Paul Martinson (Te Papa Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 2006)
reviewed by Jared Diamond
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- Voices from Bird Bones
- Science 16 February 2007; 315 (5814): 941
Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds, by David W. Steadman (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Jared Diamond
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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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- Dangers of Brain-o-vision
- Science 23 February 2007; 315 (5815): 1078
Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, by Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, and Shaun Gallagher, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006)
reviewed by Daniel M. Wegner
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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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- Looking Beyond Corn and Petroleum
- Science 2 March 2007; 315 (5816): 1222
The Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Tobias Plieninger
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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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- From Whole Earth to the Whole Web
- Science 9 March 2007; 315 (5817): 1369
From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, by Fred Turner (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Henry Lieberman
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- Many Players in the Concerto of Sex
- Science 9 March 2007; 315 (5817): 1370
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life. Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950, by Chandak Sengoopta (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)
reviewed by Sandra Eder
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- From Gombe to the World
- Science 16 March 2007; 315 (5818): 1498
Jane Goodall. The Woman Who Redefined Man, by Dale Peterson (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006)
reviewed by Meredith F. Small
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- Our Branch in the Tree of Life
- Science 16 March 2007; 315 (5818): 1499
Hall of Human Origins, by Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, curators (American Museum of Natural History, New York. www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/)
reviewed by R. Scott Winters
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- Browsings
- Science 16 March 2007; 315 (5818): 1500
Antarctic Fishes, by Mitsuo Fukuchi and Harvey J. Marchant. Illustrated in the Gyotaku Method by Boshu Nagase (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- Browsings
- Science 16 March 2007; 315 (5818): 1500
Antarctic Fishes, by Mitsuo Fukuchi and Harvey J. Marchant. Illustrated in the Gyotaku Method by Boshu Nagase (Rosenberg, Kenthurst, NSW, Australia, 2006)
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 (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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- 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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- Plumb Crazy
- Science 23 March 2007; 315 (5819): 1669
The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, by Werner Troesken (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006)
reviewed by Rebecca Renner
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- What Flowed from "Surveys Say
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- 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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- 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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- Seeing Is Believing?
- Science 6 April 2007; 316 (5821): 54
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture, by Jonathan Smith (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006)
reviewed by Harriet Ritvo
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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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- How Best to Look Forward?
- Science 13 April 2007; 316 (5822): 202
Useless Arithmetic. Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future, by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis (Columbia University Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by M. Bruce Beck
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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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- An Intelligent Primer
- Science 20 April 2007; 316 (5823): 373
Coming to Life. How Genes Drive Development, by Christiane Nόsslein-Volhard (Kales Press, Carlsbad, CA, 2006)
reviewed by Nipam H. Patel
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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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- 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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- Toward the Ideal of a Healthy Land
- Science 27 April 2007; 316 (5824): 545
Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, by Julianne Lutz Newton (Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, DC, 2006)
reviewed by Frederick R. Davis
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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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- 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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- 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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- The Child as Scientific Object
- Science 11 May 2007; 316 (5826): 835
Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935, by Alice Boardman Smuts (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2006)
reviewed by Emily D. Cahan
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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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- Diversity Paradoxes
- Science 18 May 2007; 316 (5827): 984
The Difference. How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies, by Scott E. Page (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Philip E. Tetlock
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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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- 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 Geneviθve Almouzni
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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)
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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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- 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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- 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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- A Multilevel Exploration
- Science 8 June 2007; 316 (5830): 1428
Evolution and the Levels of Selection, by Samir Okasha (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006)
reviewed by David Jablonski
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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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- 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)
reviewed by Dennis Stanford
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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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- 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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- To While Away Some Time
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Ghostwritten. A Novel in Nine Parts, by David Mitchell (Random House, New York, 2001)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Saturday, by Ian McEwan (Doubleday, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Caroline Ash
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- 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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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
Business Solutions for the Global Poor. Creating Social and Economic Value, by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton, Eds. (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2007)
reviewed by David Bloom
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- 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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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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Charles Darwin. Voyaging, by Janet Browne (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996)
reviewed by Angela Creager
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Charles Darwin. The Power of Place, by Janet Browne (Knopf, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Angela Creager
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Frameshift, by Robert Sawyer (Tor Books, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Brian H. Davison
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The Wisdom of Crowds. Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations, by James Surowiecki (Doubleday, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Brian H. Davison
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Blink. The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Brian H. Davison
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The Botany of Desire. A Plant's-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan (Random House, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Vicki Funk
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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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The Colour, by Rose Tremain (Picador, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth
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Identity and Violence. The Illusion of Destiny, by Amartya Sen (Norton, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth
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The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches, by Charles Darwin (Penguin, New York, 1999)
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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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A Primate's Memoir. A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, by Robert Sapolsky (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Barbara Jasny
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Perdido Street Station, by China Miιville (Random House, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Barbara Jasny
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1491. New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles Mann (Knopf, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Katrina Kelner
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Intuition, by Allegra Goodman (Dell, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Donald Kennedy
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Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif (Harcourt, New York, 2002)
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Rats, Lice, and History, by Hans Zinsser (Black Dog and Leventhal, New York, 1996)
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Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis (Signet, New York, 1998)
reviewed by Daniel Koshland
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Blink. The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Shirley Malcom
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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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The Trouble with Physics. The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006)
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The Shape of Life, by Nancy Burnett and Brad Matsen (Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, 2002)
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Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd (Harper Perennial, New York, 1995)
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Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf, New York, 2005)
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Why We Get Sick. The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams (Crown, New York, 1995)
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A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (Broadway, New York, 2003)
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep. A Medical Mystery, by D. T. Max (Random House, New York, 2006)
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Chrysalis. Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, by Kim Todd (Harcourt, New York, 2007)
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Inventing the Flat Earth. Columbus and Modern Historians, by Jeffrey Burton Russell (Greenwood, New York, 1991)
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Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, New York, 1999)
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The Fall of the Roman Empire. A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, by Peter Heather (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)
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Subtle Is the Lord. The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, by Abraham Pais (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995)
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Genius. The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, by James Gleick (Knopf, New York, 1992)
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Crystal Fire. The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age, by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (Norton, New York, 1998)
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On Food and Cooking. The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. 2nd ed., by Harold McGee (Scribner, New York, 2004)
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The Beak of the Finch. A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner (Vintage, New York, 1995)
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Stiff. The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach (Norton, New York, 2003)
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The Famished Road, by Ben Okri (Doubleday, New York, 1992)
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. A Medical History of Humanity, by Roy Porter (Norton, New York, 1998)
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The Hippocampus Book, by Per Andersen, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss, and John O'Keefe, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2007)
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The Behavioural Biology of Dogs, by Per Jensen, Ed. (CABI, Wallingford, UK, 2007)
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An Inconvenient Truth, by Davis Guggenheim, Director (Paramount Classics, Hollywood, CA, 2006. 97 minutes. DVD, $29.99. www.climatecrisis.net/)
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An Inconvenient Truth. The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore (Rodale, New York, 2006)
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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)
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AirCraft. The Jet as Art, by Jeffrey Milstein (Abrams, New York, 2007)
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- Fragile Frontiers in the Abyss
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The Silent Deep. The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea, by Tony Koslow (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
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The Silent Deep. The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea, by Tony Koslow (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia, 2007)
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The Deep. The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, by Claire Nouvian (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
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Abysses, by Claire Nouvian (Fayard, Paris, 2006)
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Cell of Cells. The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell, by Cynthia Fox (Norton, New York, 2007)
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The Politics of Life Itself. Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, by Nikolas Rose (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
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