The Fertile Banks of the Thames

Science 4 January 2008; 319 (5859): 34
The Jewel House. Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, by Deborah E. Harkness (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007)
reviewed by Nicholas S. Popper
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Connecting Blazons and Neurons

Science 4 January 2008; 319 (5859): 35
Echo Objects. The Cognitive Work of Images, by Barbara Maria Stafford (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Caroline A. Jones
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Delicious Tales of Guinea Pigs, Etc.

Science 11 January 2008; 319 (5860): 160
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. The Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life, by Jim Endersby (Heinemann, London, 2007)
reviewed by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
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Delicious Tales of Guinea Pigs, Etc.

Science 11 January 2008; 319 (5860): 160
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology, by Jim Endersby (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
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Keeping Time

Science 11 January 2008; 319 (5860): 161
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. A Time-Dependent Perspective, by David J. Tannor (University Science, Sausalito, CA, 2007)
reviewed by Stephen Gray
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Act Now (But How?)

Science 18 January 2008; 319 (5861): 285
Cool It. The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg (Knopf, New York, 2007)
reviewed by William F. Ruddiman
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Act Now (But How?)

Science 18 January 2008; 319 (5861): 285
Cool It. The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg (Marshall Cavendish, London, and Cyan Communications, London, 2007)
reviewed by William F. Ruddiman
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The Many Sides of Science

Science 25 January 2008; 319 (5862): 412
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty. Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, by Deborah R. Coen (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Manfred D. Laubichler
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Steal Away, Music

Science 25 January 2008; 319 (5862): 413
Musicophilia. Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks (Knopf, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Jessica Phillips-Silver
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Drifters Through Time

Science 1 February 2008; 319 (5863): 571
Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea, by Paul G. Falkowski and Andrew H. Knoll, Eds. (Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Robert Riding
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Give Way to the Migrants

Science 1 February 2008; 319 (5863): 572
No Way Home. The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations, by David S. Wilcove (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2008)
reviewed by Thomas Alerstam
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Facing the Flames

Science 8 February 2008; 319 (5864): 728
On the Fireline. Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters, by Matthew Desmond (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Eugene A. Rosa
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Change of Time over Changing Time

Science 8 February 2008; 319 (5864): 729a
One Time Fits All. The Campaigns for Global Uniformity, by Ian R. Bartky (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2007)
reviewed by Thomas S. Mullaney
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Browsing

Science 8 February 2008; 319 (5864): 729b
Transit Maps of the World, by Mark Ovenden (Penguin, New York, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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It's Constraints, Not Choices

Science 15 February 2008; 319 (5865): 903
Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, by Pamela Stone (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007)
reviewed by Phyllis Moen
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The In-Group Rules

Science 15 February 2008; 319 (5865): 904
Bending the Rules. Morality in the Modern World from Relationships to Politics and War, by Robert A. Hinde, with contributions from Sir Joseph Rotblat (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Ben W. Heineman Jr.
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A Taste of the Gonzo Scientist

Science 15 February 2008; 319 (5865): 905
by John Bohannon
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The Fires of Aging

Science 22 February 2008; 319 (5866): 1044
The Biology of Human Longevity. Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans, by Caleb E. Finch (Academic, Amsterdam, 2007)
reviewed by Donna J. Holmes
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Finding Freedom Through Complexity

Science 22 February 2008; 319 (5866): 1045
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will, by Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Todd Stuart Ganson
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Happening Now, Outdoors

Science 29 February 2008; 319 (5867): 1187
How and Why Species Multiply. The Radiation of Darwin's Finches, by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008)
reviewed by Hanna Kokko
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Tilting at a Myth

Science 29 February 2008; 319 (5867): 1188
The Telephone Gambit. Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret, by Seth Shulman (Norton, New York, 2008)
reviewed by David L. Morton Jr.
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News from Avatar Editors

Science 7 March 2008; 319 (5868): 1338
The Second Life Herald. The Virtual Tabloid That Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse, by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Dan Hunter
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Complexities of a Continent

Science 7 March 2008; 319 (5868): 1339
HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being, by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton, Eds. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 2007)
reviewed by Alash'le G. Abimiku
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Fresh Renderings of Physics

Science 14 March 2008; 319 (5869): 1485
Reading Popular Physics. Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies, by Elizabeth Leane (Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, 2007)
reviewed by David Kaiser
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On Ends and Means

Science 14 March 2008; 319 (5869): 1486
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres. Deciphering the Ends of DNA, by Catherine Brady (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007)
reviewed by Michael A. Goldman
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Rise and Demise of Ghostly Animals

Science 21 March 2008; 319 (5870): 1618
The Rise of Animals. Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia, by Mikhail A. Fedonkin, James G. Gehling, Kathleen Grey, Guy M. Narbonne, and Patricia Vickers-Rich (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008)
reviewed by Shuhai Xiao
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Rise and Demise of Ghostly Animals

Science 21 March 2008; 319 (5870): 1618
The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota, by Patricia Vickers-Rich and Patricia Komarower, Eds. (The Geological Society, Bath, UK, 2007)
reviewed by Shuhai Xiao
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The Female Equally with the Male I Sing

Science 21 March 2008; 319 (5870): 1619
Sex Differences in the Brain. From Genes to Behavior, by Jill B. Becker, Karen J. Berkley, Nori Geary, Elizabeth Hampson, James P. Herman, and Elizabeth A. Young, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Evan Balaban
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Another Approach to Consilience

Science 28 March 2008; 319 (5871): 1763
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2007)
reviewed by Jay Labinger
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Another Approach to Consilience

Science 28 March 2008; 319 (5871): 1763
Artscience. Creativity in the Post-Google Generation, by David Edwards (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Jay Labinger
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Explaining the Cosmos to the People

Science 28 March 2008; 319 (5871): 1764
Victorian Popularizers of Science. Designing Nature for New Audiences, by Bernard Lightman (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
reviewed by Philip J. Pauly
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Confronting Violence Face to Face

Science 4 April 2008; 320 (5872): 51
Violence. A Micro-sociological Theory, by Randall Collins (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008)
reviewed by David D. Laitin
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Browsings

Science 4 April 2008; 320 (5872): 52
Four Laws That Drive the Universe, by Peter Atkins (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 4 April 2008; 320 (5872): 52
Symmetry. A Journey into the Patterns of Nature, by Marcus du Sautoy (Harper, New York, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings

Science 4 April 2008; 320 (5872): 52
Finding Moonshine. A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry, by Marcus du Sautoy (Fourth Estate, London, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Return to Natural History

Science 11 April 2008; 320 (5873): 180
Return to Warden's Grove. Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows, by Christopher Norment (University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, 2008)
reviewed by Raphael D. Sagarin
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Connecting the Dots

Science 11 April 2008; 320 (5873): 181
Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen. An Exploration of Mathematical Connections, by Peter M. Higgins (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)
reviewed by Stephan Mertens
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First, Kill the Economists

Science 18 April 2008; 320 (5874): 318
The Dismal Science. How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, by Stephen A. Marglin (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by E. Roy Weintraub
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Toward the Dominance of Vision?

Science 18 April 2008; 320 (5874): 319
Sensing the Past. Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History, by Mark M. Smith (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008)
reviewed by Andreas Keller
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Cultivating a New Nation

Science 25 April 2008; 320 (5875): 449
Fruits and Plains. The Horticultural Transformation of America, by Philip J. Pauly (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Sharon Kingsland
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Seeing Green on the Silver Screen

Science 25 April 2008; 320 (5875): 450
Most Dangerous Catch, by David Elisco, Director (Sea Studios, Monterey, CA, 2008. 57 minutes)
reviewed by Erik Stokstad
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Seeing Green on the Silver Screen

Science 25 April 2008; 320 (5875): 450
FLOW. For Love of Water, by Irena Salina, Director (Water Project, USA, 2008. 93 minutes. www.flowthefilm.com)
reviewed by Guy Riddihough
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Seeing Green on the Silver Screen

Science 25 April 2008; 320 (5875): 450
Building the Future--Energy, by Nicolas Brown, Director (UK, 2007. 54 minutes)
reviewed by Barbara Jasny
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Seeing Green on the Silver Screen

Science 25 April 2008; 320 (5875): 450
Gimme Green, by Isaac Brown and Eric Flagg, Directors (Jellyfish Smack, USA, 2006. 27 minutes. www.gimmegreen.com)
reviewed by Laura M. Zahn
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Seeing Green on the Silver Screen

Science 25 April 2008; 320 (5875): 450
Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives. The Environmental Footprint of War, by Alice Day and Lincoln Day, Directors (Video Takes, USA, 2008. 60 minutes. www.fundforsustainabletomorrows.org/film.htm)
reviewed by Barbara Jasny
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On Deciding How to Do unto Others

Science 2 May 2008; 320 (5876): 614
The Neuroscience of Fair Play. Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule, by Donald W. Pfaff (Dana Press, New York, 2007)
reviewed by Prashanth Ak
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Rethinking Folk Psychology

Science 2 May 2008; 320 (5876): 615
Folk Psychological Narratives. The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons, by Daniel D. Hutto (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Erik Myin
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Protesting Scientists

Science 9 May 2008; 320 (5877): 747
Disrupting Science. Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975, by Kelly Moore (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008)
reviewed by Audra J. Wolfe
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Designers and Builders

Science 9 May 2008; 320 (5877): 748
Architect and Engineer. A Study in Sibling Rivalry, by Andrew Saint (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008)
reviewed by Thomas P. Hughes
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