Books et al.
Review Index, 2007
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- On Sickness and Surroundings
- Science 5 October 2007; 318 (5847): 46
Breathing Space. How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, by Gregg Mitman (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007)
reviewed by Peder Anker
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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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- 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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- 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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- The World Measurers
- Science 27 July 2007; 317 (5837): 454b
Jaguars and Electric Eels, by Alexander von Humboldt (Penguin, London, 2007)
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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- 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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- 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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- The Nature of Belief
- Science 27 July 2007; 317 (5837): 456
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. The Evolutionary Origins of Belief, by Lewis Wolpert (Faber and Faber, London, 2006)
reviewed by Scott Atran
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- The Nature of Belief
- Science 27 July 2007; 317 (5837): 456
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. The Evolutionary Origins of Belief, by Lewis Wolpert (Norton, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Scott Atran
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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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- 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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- Pop Fly
- Science 24 August 2007; 317 (5841): 1038
Fly, by Steven Connor (Reaktion, London, 2006)
reviewed by May Berenbaum
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- Virtual Reality, Identity Imposters
- Science 21 December 2007; 318 (5858): 1870
The Echo Maker. A Novel, by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Carol W. Berman
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- Virtual Reality, Identity Imposters
- Science 21 December 2007; 318 (5858): 1870
The Echo Maker. A Novel, by Richard Powers (Heinemann, London, 2007)
reviewed by Carol W. Berman
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- To While Away Some Time …
- 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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- 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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- 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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- A Taste of the Gonzo Scientist
- Science 2 November 2007; 318 (5851): 752
A Linnean Feast
by John Bohannon
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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 Gonzo Scientist
- Science 14 September 2007; 317 (5844): 1503
A Summer Camp for Grown-Ups
by John Bohannon
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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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- 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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- Manners, Good and Bad
- Science 23 November 2007; 318 (5854): 1245b
Avoid Boring People. And Other Lessons from a Life in Science, by James D. Watson (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Sydney Brenner
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- Manners, Good and Bad
- Science 23 November 2007; 318 (5854): 1245b
Avoid Boring People. Lessons from a Life in Science, by James D. Watson (Knopf, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Sydney Brenner
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- Dancing Continents
- Science 30 November 2007; 318 (5855): 1385
Supercontinent. Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, by Ted Nield (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Kevin Burke
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- Dancing Continents
- Science 30 November 2007; 318 (5855): 1385
Supercontinent. Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, by Ted Nield (Granta Books, London, 2007)
reviewed by Kevin Burke
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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): 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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- 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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- 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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- 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): 1845
Frameshift, by Robert Sawyer (Tor Books, New York, 2005)
reviewed by Brian H. Davison
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1845
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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
The Colour, by Rose Tremain (Picador, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth
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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
Identity and Violence. The Illusion of Destiny, by Amartya Sen (Norton, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth
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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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- Reflecting on the Surfaces of Life
- Science 27 July 2007; 317 (5837): 454a
The Politics of Life Itself. Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, by Nikolas Rose (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Rebecca M. Herzig
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- Adventurer in Genome Science
- Science 23 November 2007; 318 (5854): 1244
A Life Decoded. My Genome: My Life, by J. Craig Venter (Viking, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Stephen Hilgartner
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- Adventurer in Genome Science
- Science 23 November 2007; 318 (5854): 1244
A Life Decoded. My Genome: My Life, by J. Craig Venter (Allen Lane, London, 2007)
reviewed by Stephen Hilgartner
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- To Arbitrate or to Advocate?
- Science 17 August 2007; 317 (5840): 900
The Honest Broker. Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics, by Roger A. Pielke Jr. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)
reviewed by Nathan E. Hultman
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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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- 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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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville (Random House, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Barbara Jasny
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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
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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- 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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- 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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- A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
- Science 19 October 2007; 318 (5849): 396
Are We Ready? Public Health Since 9/11, by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz (University of California Press, Berkeley, and Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Paul S. Keim
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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): 1846
Intuition, by Allegra Goodman (Dell, New York, 2006)
reviewed by Donald Kennedy
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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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- 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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- 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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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Rats, Lice, and History, by Hans Zinsser (Black Dog and Leventhal, New York, 1996)
reviewed by Daniel Koshland
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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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- 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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- Learning from Words
- Science 30 November 2007; 318 (5855): 1384
The Stuff of Thought. Language as a Window into Human Nature, by Steven Pinker (Viking, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Robin Lakoff
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- A Classic Reconfigured
- Science 21 September 2007; 317 (5845): 1684
Human-Machine Reconfigurations. Plans and Situated Actions. 2nd ed., by Lucy A. Suchman (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)
reviewed by Brenda Laurel and Rob Tow
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Circulating Life. Blood Transfusion from Ancient Superstition to Modern Medicine, by Cherie Winner (Twenty-First Century, Minneapolis, MN, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- 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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- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Exploratopia, by Pat Murphy, Ellen Macaulay, and the Staff of the Exploratorium (Little, Brown, New York, 2006)
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
Frog Heaven. Ecology of a Vernal Pool, by Doug Wechsler (Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA, 2006)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- 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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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System, by David A. Weintraub (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
An Ocean of Air. Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere, by Gabrielle Walker (Harcourt, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
An Ocean of Air. Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere, by Gabrielle Walker (Bloomsbury, London, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- 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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- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Temperature, by Navin Sullivan (Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- 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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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1552
Turtle Summer. A Journal for My Daughter, by Mary Alice Monroe and Barbara J. Bergwerf (Sylvan Dell, Mt. Pleasant, SC, 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
Vulture View, by April Pulley Sayre (Holt, New York, 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
Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed and Revealed, by David M. Schwartz and Yael Schy (Tricycle, Berkeley, CA, 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 Wild Trees. A Story of Passion and Daring, by Richard Preston (Random House, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Sherman Suter, and Barbara Jasny
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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 200
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