Books et al.
Review Index, 2007
- Browsings
- Science 20 July 2007; 317 (5836): 321b
Abysses, by Claire Nouvian (Fayard, Paris, 2006)
reviewed by staff
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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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- 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 13 July 2007; 317 (5835): 200
AirCraft. The Jet as Art, by Jeffrey Milstein (Abrams, New York, 2007)
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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)
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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)
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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): 1847
Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis (Signet, New York, 1998)
reviewed by Daniel Koshland
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
The Beak of the Finch. A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner (Vintage, New York, 1995)
reviewed by Ed Wasserman
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Browsing
- Science 26 October 2007; 318 (5850): 573
Cartographia. Mapping Civilizations, by Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress (Little Brown, New York, 2007)
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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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- 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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- 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): 1848
Chrysalis. Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, by Kim Todd (Harcourt, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Vera Rubin
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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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- Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- 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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- 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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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1846
The Colour, by Rose Tremain (Picador, New York, 2004)
reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth
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- An Intelligent Primer
- Science 20 April 2007; 316 (5823): 373
Coming to Life. How Genes Drive Development, by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Kales Press, Carlsbad, CA, 2006)
reviewed by Nipam H. Patel
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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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- 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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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
Crystal Fire. The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age, by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (Norton, New York, 1998)
reviewed by Ed Wasserman
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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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- 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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- Browsings
- Science 20 July 2007; 317 (5836): 321b
The Deep. The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, by Claire Nouvian (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Fame, Philosophy, and Physics
- Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 752
Einstein. A Biography, by Jürgen Neffe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Jeroen van Dongen
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- Fame, Philosophy, and Physics
- Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 752
Einstein. A Biography, by Jürgen Neffe (Polity, London, 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, 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- To While Away Some Time …
- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
The Famished Road, by Ben Okri (Doubleday, New York, 1992)
reviewed by Steven Wolinsky
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Pop Fly
- Science 24 August 2007; 317 (5841): 1038
Fly, by Steven Connor (Reaktion, London, 2006)
reviewed by May Berenbaum
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Browsings
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1555
Germ Stories, by Arthur Kornberg (University Science Books, Sausalito, CA, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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- 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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- 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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- Browsings
- Science 7 December 2007; 318 (5856): 1555
Great Estimations, by Bruce Goldstone (Holt, New York, 2006)
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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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- Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. A Medical History of Humanity, by Roy Porter (Norton, New York, 1998)
reviewed by Lewis Wolpert
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Matters of the Heart
- Science 12 October 2007; 318 (5848): 199
The Heart, by James Peto, Ed. (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, and Wellcome Collection, London, 2007)
reviewed by A. J. Wells
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- 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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- 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 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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- 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)
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Reminiscences of the Moon Trips
- Science 2 November 2007; 318 (5851): 751
In the Shadow of the Moon, by David Sington, Director (THINKFilm, New York, in association with Discovery Films, 2007. 100 minutes. www.intheshadowofthemoon.com)
reviewed by Jay M. Pasachoff
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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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- 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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- Language Learning Through Selection
- Science 19 January 2007; 315 (5810): 332
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