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Books et al.
Review Index, 2007

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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)
reviewed by staff
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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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Science 13 July 2007; 317 (5835): 200
AirCraft. The Jet as Art, by Jeffrey Milstein (Abrams, New York, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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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)
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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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)
reviewed by staff
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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)
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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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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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): 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
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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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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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)
reviewed by staff
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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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To While Away Some Time …
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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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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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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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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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)
reviewed by staff
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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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To While Away Some Time …
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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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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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
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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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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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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To While Away Some Time …
Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
Inventing the Flat Earth. Columbus and Modern Historians, by Jeffrey Burton Russell (Greenwood, New York, 1991)
reviewed by Richard Shweder
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Taste of the Gonzo Scientist
Science 2 November 2007; 318 (5851): 752
A Linnean Feast
by John Bohannon
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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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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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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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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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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): 1847
Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif (Harcourt, New York, 2002)
reviewed by Daniel Koshland
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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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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): 1848
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, New York, 1999)
reviewed by Kari Stefansson
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Inventing Johannes Müller
Science 21 September 2007; 317 (5845): 1685
Müller's Lab, by Laura Otis (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Lynn K. Nyhart
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How Central Is the Genome?
Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 753
The Music of Life. Biology Beyond the Genome, by Denis Noble (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006)
reviewed by Eric Werner
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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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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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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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Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
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 Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To While Away Some Time …
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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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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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 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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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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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): 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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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
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (Broadway, New York, 2003)
reviewed by John Pendry
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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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Browsings
Science 10 August 2007; 317 (5839): 754
Sippewissett. Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, by Tim Traver (Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT, 2006)
reviewed by staff
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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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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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… and a Partridge in Allopatry
Science 12 October 2007; 318 (5848): 198
Speciation in Birds, by Trevor Price (Roberts and Company, Greenwood Village, CO, 2007)
reviewed by Loren H. Rieseberg
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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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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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To While Away Some Time …
Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
Stiff. The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach (Norton, New York, 2003)
reviewed by Stewart Wills
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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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To While Away Some Time …
Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1848
Subtle Is the Lord. The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, by Abraham Pais (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995)
reviewed by Ed Wasserman
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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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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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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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Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
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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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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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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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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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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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
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)
reviewed by Robert May
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Science 29 June 2007; 316 (5833): 1847
Why We Get Sick. The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams (Crown, New York, 1995)
reviewed by Helga Nowotny
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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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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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