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Books et al.
Review Index, 2009

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The Gamers’ Advancement of Learning
Science 2 January 2009; 323 (5910): 39
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. 2nd ed., by James Paul Gee (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007)
reviewed by John Willinsky
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Inside the Schooled Mind
Science 2 January 2009; 323 (5910): 40a
Applying Cognitive Science to Education. Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex Domains, by Frederick Reif (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Elsbeth Stern
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A Handbook for Hands-On Learning
Science 2 January 2009; 323 (5910): 40b
Creating Effective Undergraduate Research Programs in Science. The Transformation from Student to Scientist, by Roman Taraban and Richard L. Blanton, Eds. (Teachers College Press, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Robert A. Lue and Richard Losick
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What’s Wrong with Inferences from Test Scores?
Science 2 January 2009; 323 (5910): 42
Measuring Up. What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, by Daniel Koretz (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Edward Haertel
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Grappling with the Gulf
Science 9 January 2009; 323 (5911): 210
Science for Lawyers, by Eric York Drogin, Ed. (Section of Science and Technology Law, American Bar Association, Chicago, 2008)
reviewed by Dov Greenbaum and Mark Gerstein
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Reflections for Looking Forward
Science 16 January 2009; 323 (5912): 340
Insatiable Curiosity. Innovation in a Fragile Future, by Helga Nowotny. Translated from the German by Mitch Cohen (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Edward J. Hackett
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Browsings
Science 16 January 2009; 323 (5912): 341
Chocolate. Pathway to the Gods, by Meredith L. Dreiss and Sharon Edgar Greenhill (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings
Science 16 January 2009; 323 (5912): 341
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, by Timothy Gowers, Ed.; June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, Associate Eds. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings
Science 16 January 2009; 323 (5912): 341
Where Our Food Comes From. Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine, by Gary Paul Nabhan (Island, Washington, DC, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Data Drought, Data Flood
Science 23 January 2009; 323 (5913): 462
Dead Pool. Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, by James Lawrence Powell (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008)
reviewed by Jared Farmer
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Pondering Grammar and God
Science 23 January 2009; 323 (5913): 463
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes. Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, by Daniel L. Everett (Pantheon, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Andreea S. Calude
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Pondering Grammar and God
Science 23 January 2009; 323 (5913): 463
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes. Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, by Daniel L. Everett (Profile, London, 2008)
reviewed by Andreea S. Calude
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Faulty Transmission
Science 30 January 2009; 323 (5914): 584
Science on the Air. Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television, by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008)
reviewed by Audra J. Wolfe
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Who Are We?
Science 30 January 2009; 323 (5914): 585
Human. The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ecco, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Ralph Adolphs
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The Overwhelming Evidence
Science 6 February 2009; 323 (5915): 716
Why Evolution Is True, by Jerry A. Coyne (Viking, New York, 2009 )
reviewed by Massimo Pigliucci
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The Overwhelming Evidence
Science 6 February 2009; 323 (5915): 716
Why Evolution Is True, by Jerry A. Coyne (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Massimo Pigliucci
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On the Metazoan Tree
Science 6 February 2009; 323 (5915): 717
Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution, by Alessandro Minelli (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Wallace Arthur
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Singing in the Brain
Science 13 February 2009; 323 (5916): 878
Neuroscience of Birdsong, by H. Philip Zeigler and Peter Marler, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008)
reviewed by Lucie H. Salwiczek
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Bounties from Biomarkers
Science 13 February 2009; 323 (5916): 879
Echoes of Life. What Fossil Molecules Reveal About Earth History, by Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, and Jürgen Rullkötter (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Katherine H. Freeman
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What Scientists Caught from Kuru
Science 20 February 2009; 323 (5917): 1012
The Collectors of Lost Souls. Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen, by Warwick Anderson (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008)
reviewed by M. Susan Lindee
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A Foundation, But Can We Use It?
Science 20 February 2009; 323 (5917): 1013
The Future of Education. Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up, by Kieran Egan (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008)
reviewed by James V. Wertsch
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Making German Evolution: Translation and Tragedy
Science 27 February 2009; 323 (5918): 1170
The Tragic Sense of Life. Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought, by Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008)
reviewed by Lynn K. Nyhart
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Making German Evolution: Translation and Tragedy
Science 27 February 2009; 323 (5918): 1170
H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism. A Study in Translation and Transformation, by Sander Gliboff (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by Lynn K. Nyhart
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Many Worlds in Tiny Grains
Science 6 March 2009; 323 (5919): 1291
Sand. The Never-Ending Story, by Michael Welland (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009)
reviewed by Rob Holman
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Portrait of the Artist
Science 6 March 2009; 323 (5919): 1292
The Art and Politics of Science, by Harold Varmus (Norton, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Thoru Pederson
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Giant Ring on the Prairie
Science 13 March 2009; 323 (5920): 1430
Fermilab. Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience, by Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008)
reviewed by Robert W. Seidel
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Through a Glass of Darkness
Science 13 March 2009; 323 (5920): 1431
Einstein’s Telescope. The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, by Evalyn Gates (Norton, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Pedro Ferreira
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Humans Need Biodiversity
Science 20 March 2009; 323 (5921): 1562
Sustaining Life. How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2008)
reviewed by David P. Mindell
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A Crystal Ball for Our Blue Planet
Science 20 March 2009; 323 (5921): 1563
Surviving 1,000 Centuries. Can We Do It?, by Roger-Maurice Bonnet and Lodewijk Woltjer (Springer, Berlin, in association with Praxis, Chichester, UK, 2008)
reviewed by Giovanni F. Bignami
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The Darwinian Eye
Science 27 March 2009; 323 (5922): 1673
Endless Forms. Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts, by Diana Donald and Jane Munro, Curators (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. 12 February-3 May, 2009. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 16 June-4 October 2009. www.darwinendlessforms.org)
reviewed by Harriet Ritvo
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The Darwinian Eye
Science 27 March 2009; 323 (5922): 1673
Endless Forms. Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts, by Diana Donald and Jane Munro, Eds. (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009)
reviewed by Harriet Ritvo
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Emerging Market Organisms
Science 27 March 2009; 323 (5922): 1674
Emerging Model Organisms. A Laboratory Manual, Volume 1 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2009)
reviewed by Jonathan M. W. Slack
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Browsings
Science 27 March 2009; 323 (5922): 1675
Mannahatta. A Natural History of New York City, by Eric W. Sanderson; illustrations by Markley Boyer (Abrams, New York, 2009)
reviewed by staff
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Signs of Meaning
Science 3 April 2009; 324 (5923): 38
Writing. Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization, by Barry B. Powell (Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2009)
reviewed by Andrew Robinson
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Social Motives for Syntax
Science 3 April 2009; 324 (5923): 39
Origins of Human Communication, by Michael Tomasello (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008)
reviewed by N. J. Enfield
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Learning from Errors
Science 10 April 2009; 324 (5924): 181
Freaks of Nature. What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution, by Mark S. Blumberg (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Manfred D. Laubichler
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Learning from Errors
Science 10 April 2009; 324 (5924): 181
Freaks of Nature. And What They Tell Us About Development and Evolution, by Mark S. Blumberg (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Manfred D. Laubichler
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Social Selection
Science 10 April 2009; 324 (5924): 182
The Lives of Ants, by Laurent Keller and Élisabeth Gordon (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Nigel R. Franks
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Sharing, Trading, Creating Culture
Science 17 April 2009; 324 (5925): 337
Remix. Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, by Lawrence Lessig (Penguin Press, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Yochai Benkler
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Growing Up Connected
Science 17 April 2009; 324 (5925): 338
Born Digital. Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (Basic Books, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Jennifer Preece
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Early Steps Toward Animal Rights
Science 24 April 2009; 324 (5926): 466
For the Love of Animals. The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement, by Kathryn Shevelow (Henry Holt, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Charles G. Gross
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Hows and Whys of Coming Together
Science 24 April 2009; 324 (5926): 467
The Social Amoebae. The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds, by John Tyler Bonner (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Rex L. Chisholm
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Three Takes on People and Water
Science 1 May 2009; 324 (5927): 593
Blue Gold: World Water Wars, by Sam Bozzo, Director (Purple Turtle Films, Canada, 2008. www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com )
reviewed by Barbara R. Jasny
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Three Takes on People and Water
Science 1 May 2009; 324 (5927): 593
Legacy of the Great Aletsch, by Nick Brandestini and Steve Ellington, Directors (Switzerland, 2008. www.aletschfilm.com)
reviewed by Sherman J. Suter
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Three Takes on People and Water
Science 1 May 2009; 324 (5927): 593
Onze Kost [Our Coast], by Ireen van Ditshuyzen, Director (IDTV-DITS, Netherlands, 2005. www.idtvdocs.nl)
reviewed by Sherman J. Suter
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Human Inhumanity
Science 8 May 2009; 324 (5928): 726
Cruelty. Human Evil and the Human Brain, by Kathleen Taylor (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Prashanth Ak
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Far from a Rational Crowd
Science 15 May 2009; 324 (5929): 883
Animal Spirits. How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Michelle Baddeley
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Browsings
Science 15 May 2009; 324 (5929): 884
The Atlas of the Real World. Mapping the Way We Live, by Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman, and Anna Barford (Thames and Hudson, London, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Problems Well Worth Pondering
Science 22 May 2009; 324 (5930): 1017
Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution, by Thomas N. Sherratt and David M. Wilkinson (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Hanna Kokko
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Reflections from the Silver Screen
Science 22 May 2009; 324 (5930): 1018
Bioethics at the Movies, by Sandra Shapshay, Ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009)
reviewed by Jeremy Sugarman
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Debating Reality and Relevance
Science 29 May 2009; 324 (5931): 1144
Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, by Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson, Eds. (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008)
reviewed by Troy Duster
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Under the Influence of Hormones
Science 29 May 2009; 324 (5931): 1145
Endocrinology of Social Relationships, by Peter T. Ellison and Peter B. Gray, Eds. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009)
reviewed by Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
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Browsings
Science 29 May 2009; 324 (5931): 1146
Third Art of Science Exhibition, by Andrew Zwicker, Adam Finkelstein, Teresa Riordan, and Elle Starkman, organizers (Friend Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2009. Through April 2010. www.princeton.edu/~artofsci/2009/)
reviewed by staff
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Apocalypse. Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God, by Amos Nur and Dawn Burgess
reviewed by Aubreya Adams
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
The Code Book. The Evolution of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, by Simon Singh
reviewed by Gloria Brar
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, by Leonard Mlodinow
reviewed by Ian B. Burgess
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
It Ain't Necessarily So. The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions, by Richard Lewontin
reviewed by Laura Colgin
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Beautiful Swimmers. Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay, by William W. Warner
reviewed by Elizabeth A. Diamond
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard A. Fortey
reviewed by Elizabeth A. Diamond
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann
reviewed by Barbara Fischer
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
reviewed by Erika Gebel
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Experimental Heart, by Jennifer L. Rohn
reviewed by Alice Genevet
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Science Next. Innovation for the Common Good, by Rick Weiss and Jonathan D. Moreno, Eds.
reviewed by Matt Hourihan
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
reviewed by Matt Hourihan
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
The Fabric of the Cosmos. Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, by Brian Greene
reviewed by Daniel Hummer
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Prime Obsession. Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire
reviewed by Jussi Lehtonen
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
The Know-It-All. One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A. J. Jacobs
reviewed by Cassandra Leigh
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
reviewed by Steven Lockton
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
The Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov
reviewed by Kathryn Luke
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
The Ender's Game series, by Orson Scott Card
reviewed by Kathryn Luke
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
The Happiness Hypothesis. Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt
reviewed by Victoria Miller
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Quirkology. How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things/The Curious Science of Everyday Lives, by Richard Wiseman
reviewed by Andrea Orsi
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton. Edward Hutchings, Ed.
reviewed by Andrea Orsi
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Napolean's Buttons. How 17 Molecules Changed History, by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
reviewed by Olga Pantos
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Einstein. His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
reviewed by Aaron Price
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson
reviewed by Aaron Price
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
reviewed by Sarah Remmert
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Mara and Dan, by Doris Lessing
reviewed by Deborah Talmi
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Pages to Turn on a Lazy Day
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1267
Atmospheric Disturbances. A Novel, by Rivka Galchen
reviewed by Brad Wible
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A Story of Symbiosis
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1270
Beanworld. Book 1: Wahoolazuma!, by Larry Marder (Dark Horse, Milwaukie, OR, 2009)
reviewed by Leigh Krietsch Boerner
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A Story of Symbiosis
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1270
Beanworld. Book 2: A Gift Comes!, by Larry Marder (Dark Horse, Milwaukie, OR, 2009)
reviewed by Leigh Krietsch Boerner
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Numbers to Remember By
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1271a
The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa (Picador, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Katharine Ott
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Browsings
Science 5 June 2009; 324 (5932): 1271b
Wave, by Suzy Lee (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Mr. Armstrong’s Jersey and Mr. Rogers’s Sweater
Science 12 June 2009; 324 (5933): 1392
SuperSense. Why We Believe in the Unbelievable, by Bruce M. Hood (HarperOne, San Francisco, 2009)
reviewed by Michael Shermer
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Mr. Armstrong’s Jersey and Mr. Rogers’s Sweater
Science 12 June 2009; 324 (5933): 1392
SuperSense. From Superstition to Religion—the Brain Science of Belief, by Bruce M. Hood (Constable, London, 2009)
reviewed by Michael Shermer
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Epidemics of Fear
Science 12 June 2009; 324 (5933): 1393
Dread. How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu, by Philip Alcabes (PublicAffairs, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Kenneth R. Foster
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Can Civilization (at Least the U.K.) Run Sustainably?
Science 19 June 2009; 324 (5934): 1517
Sustainable Energy. Without the Hot Air, by David J. C. MacKay (UIT Cambridge, Cambridge, 2009)
reviewed by Marty Hoffert
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Arguments over Early Arrivals
Science 19 June 2009; 324 (5934): 1518
First Peoples in a New World. Colonizing Ice Age America, by David J. Meltzer (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009)
reviewed by Tim Flannery
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Caring Cooperators
Science 26 June 2009; 324 (5935): 1646
Mothers and Others. The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009)
reviewed by Gillian R. Brown
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Buying So Children Belong
Science 26 June 2009; 324 (5935): 1647
Longing and Belonging. Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, by Allison J. Pugh (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009)
reviewed by Sandra L. Hofferth
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The Ecological Theater
Science 3 July 2009; 325 (5936): 35
Speciation and Patterns of Diversity, by Roger K. Butlin, Jon R. Bridle, and Dolph Schluter, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009)
reviewed by Anne E. Magurran
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Green Life Through Time
Science 3 July 2009; 325 (5936): 36
Paleobotany. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. 2nd ed., by Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, and Michael Krings (Academic, Burlington, MA, 2009)
reviewed by Jonathan P. Wilson
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An Unsung Refrain of Science
Science 3 July 2009; 325 (5936): 37
Fare Mondi/Making Worlds. 53rd International Art Exhibition, by Daniel Birnbaum, Director (Venice Biennale, the Giardini, the Arsenale, and various other venures, Venice, Italy. To 22 November 2009. www.labiennale.org/en/art/)
reviewed by Harriet Coles
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Babylon, Newton, and All That
Science 10 July 2009; 325 (5937): 149
Science. A Four Thousand Year History, by Patricia Fara (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Michael D. Gordin
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Tofu Was Just a Start
Science 10 July 2009; 325 (5937): 150
The World of Soy, by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney W. Mintz, Eds. (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2008)
reviewed by Michael A. Grusak
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The Flexible Organism
Science 17 July 2009; 325 (5938): 268
Ecological Developmental Biology. Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution, by Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2009)
reviewed by David W. Pfennig and Cris Ledón-Rettig
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Entanglement with a Twist
Science 17 July 2009; 325 (5938): 269
The Age of Entanglement. When Quantum Physics Was Reborn, by Louisa Gilder (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008)
reviewed by Jonathan P. Dowling
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The Cooking Ape
Science 24 July 2009; 325 (5939): 394
Catching Fire. How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham (Basic Books, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Andreas Keller
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The Cooking Ape
Science 24 July 2009; 325 (5939): 394
Fire. The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution, by Frances D. Burton (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2009)
reviewed by Andreas Keller
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Neglecting the Crucial “Why?”
Science 24 July 2009; 325 (5939): 395
Plastic Fantastic. How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World, by Eugenie Samuel Reich (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009)
reviewed by Donald Eigler
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A Second Opinion for Our Planet
Science 31 July 2009; 325 (5940): 539
He Knew He Was Right. The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia, by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin (Allen Lane, London, 2009)
reviewed by Lee R. Kump
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A Second Opinion for Our Planet
Science 31 July 2009; 325 (5940): 539
James Lovelock. In Search of Gaia, by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Lee R. Kump
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A Second Opinion for Our Planet
Science 31 July 2009; 325 (5940): 539
The Vanishing Face of Gaia. A Final Warning, by James Lovelock (Allen Lane, London, 2009)
reviewed by Lee R. Kump
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A Second Opinion for Our Planet
Science 31 July 2009; 325 (5940): 539
The Vanishing Face of Gaia. A Final Warning, by James Lovelock (Basic Books, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Lee R. Kump
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Civic Collaboration
Science 31 July 2009; 325 (5940): 540
Wiki Government. How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful, by Beth Simone Noveck (Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2009)
reviewed by Ben Shneiderman
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Imagining Our Ancient Future
Science 7 August 2009; 325 (5941): 677
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, by Cathy Gere (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009)
reviewed by Christopher E. Forth
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Selling Science
Science 7 August 2009; 325 (5941): 678
Unscientific America. How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (Basic Books, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Jerry Coyne
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Bridging an Ocean
Science 7 August 2009; 325 (5941): 679
Re:Design, by Craig Baxter; directed by Paul Bourne (Menagerie Theatre Company, ADC Theatre, University of Cambridge, UK. July 2009. Darwin Festival Fringe Programme)
reviewed by Claire Thomas
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Epigenetic Determinism
Science 14 August 2009; 325 (5942):
DNA. Promise and Peril, by Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008)
reviewed by Michael A. Goldman
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Humanizing Conservation
Science 14 August 2009; 325 (5942): 817
Conservation Psychology. Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature, by Susan Clayton and Gene Myers (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Peter Verbeek
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Return to the High Table
Science 21 August 2009; 325 (5943): 947
The Paleobiological Revolution. Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology, by David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009)
reviewed by Rachel Wood
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What Is It Like to Be a Cell?
Science 21 August 2009; 325 (5943): 948
Wetware. A Computer in Every Living Cell, by Dennis Bray (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009)
reviewed by Wallace F. Marshall
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Much Hype and Many Errors
Science 28 August 2009; 325 (5944): 1074
The Link. Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor, by Colin Tudge, with Josh Young (Little, Brown, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Richard F. Kay
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Browsings
Science 28 August 2009; 325 (5944): 1075a
Summer World: A Season of Bounty, by Bernd Heinrich (Ecco, New York, 2009)
reviewed by staff
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Five “Easy” Questions
Science 28 August 2009; 325 (5944): 1075b
Science and Decisions. Advancing Risk Assessment, by National Research Council. Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA (National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2009)
reviewed by Garry D. Brewer
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Evolutionary Biology for Doctors
Science 4 September 2009; 325 (5945): 1207
Principles of Evolutionary Medicine, by Peter Gluckman, Alan Beedle, and Mark Hanson (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Peter T. Ellison
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More Than Just Talking
Science 4 September 2009; 325 (5945): 1208
Weather Matters. An American Cultural History Since 1900, by Bernard Mergen (University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2008)
reviewed by Roger Turner
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A Critical Course Change
Science 11 September 2009; 325 (5946): 1342
Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans, by Karen McLeod and Heather Leslie, Eds. (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2009)
reviewed by Kai M. A. Chan, Edward J. Gregr, and Sarah Klain
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Addressing the Graduation Gap
Science 11 September 2009; 325 (5946): 1343
Crossing the Finish Line. Completing College at America’s Public Universities, by William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, and Michael S. McPherson (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Richard C. Atkinson and Saul Geiser
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Browsings
Science 11 September 2009; 325 (5946): 1344
Drill Me a Painting. A Scientist’s Impressions Aboard an Ocean-Drilling Research Vessel, by Christine Laverne (Atlantica, Biarritz, France, 2008)
reviewed by staff
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Ecology Emerging
Science 18 September 2009; 325 (5947): 1500
Modern Nature. The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, by Lynn K. Nyhart (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009)
reviewed by Matthias Glaubrecht
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Many Reflections on Birds
Science 18 September 2009; 325 (5947): 1501
Birdscapes. Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, by Jeremy Mynott (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Devorah Bennu
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One Size Fits All, After Tailoring
Science 25 September 2009; 325 (5948): 1625
The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It, by Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009)
reviewed by Rebecca S. Eisenberg
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Doing Magic with DNA
Science 25 September 2009; 325 (5948): 1626
Untangling the Double Helix. DNA Entanglement and the Action of the DNA Topoisomerases, by James C. Wang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2009)
reviewed by Alfonso Mondragón
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A Plunge into Networks
Science 2 October 2009; 326 (5949): 47
Social and Economic Networks, by Matthew O. Jackson (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008)
reviewed by David Krackhardt
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What Powers Have Words?
Science 2 October 2009; 326 (5949): 48
Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems, by John Felstiner (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009)
reviewed by Greg Garrard
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Influences by Darwin
Science 2 October 2009; 326 (5949): 49
Darwin’s Microscope, by Kelley Swain (Flambard, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2009)
reviewed by Sherman Suter
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Influences by Darwin
Science 2 October 2009; 326 (5949): 49
Trouble in Heaven, by John Barnie (Gomer, Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales, UK, 2007)
reviewed by Sherman Suter
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Influences by Darwin
Science 2 October 2009; 326 (5949): 49
Darwin. A Life in Poems, by Ruth Padel (Chatto and Windus, London, 2009)
reviewed by Sherman Suter
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Influences by Darwin
Science 2 October 2009; 326 (5949): 49
Darwin. A Life in Poems, by Ruth Padel (Knopf, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Sherman Suter
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Two Doors and a Goat
Science 9 October 2009; 326 (5950): 231
The Monty Hall Problem. The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser, by Jason Rosenhouse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Donald O. Granberg
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Sex, War (and Ecology)
Science 9 October 2009; 326 (5950): 232
Sex and War. How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World, by Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden (BenBella, Dallas, 2008)
reviewed by Hillard Kaplan
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A Fresh Theoretical Framework
Science 16 October 2009; 326 (5951): 368
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Jay Odenbaugh
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Toward a Malaria Vaccine
Science 16 October 2009; 326 (5951): 369
The Elusive Malaria Vaccine. Miracle or Mirage?, by Irwin W. Sherman (ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2009)
reviewed by Brian Greenwood
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The Passions of Meteorite Seekers
Science 23 October 2009; 326 (5952): 524
The Fallen Sky. An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, by Christopher Cokinos (Tarcher, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Dante S. Lauretta
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Exasperated by Copyright
Science 23 October 2009; 326 (5952): 525
Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, by William Patry (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009)
reviewed by Pamela Samuelson
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The Unit of Life
Science 30 October 2009; 326 ( 5953): 668
How We Live and Why We Die. The Secret Lives of Cells, by Lewis Wolpert (Norton, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Helen Pickersgill
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The Unit of Life
Science 30 October 2009; 326 ( 5953): 668
How We Live and Why We Die. The Secret Lives of Cells, by Lewis Wolpert (Faber and Faber, London, 2009)
reviewed by Helen Pickersgill
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Correspondence in Flux
Science 30 October 2009; 326 ( 5953): 669
The Calculus of Friendship. What a Teacher and a Student Learned About Life While Corresponding About Math, by Steven Strogatz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Brie Finegold
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Darwin Is Dead--Long Live Evolution
Science 6 November 2009; 326 (5954): 800
Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution, by David F. Prindle (Prometheus, Amherst, NY, 2009)
reviewed by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
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Evolution of the End of Origin
Science 6 November 2009; 326 (5954): 801
reviewed by R. W. D. Nickalls
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Newton in Three Dimensions
Science 13 November 2009; 326 (5955): 937
Let Newton Be!, by Craig Baxter; directed by Patrick Morris (Menagerie Theatre Company, University of Cambridge, UK. October 2009. Commissioned by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge)
reviewed by Rebecca Stott and Hannah Morrish
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Selfless Memes
Science 20 November 2009; 326 (5956): 1063a
The Age of Empathy. Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, by Frans de Waal (Harmony, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Johan J. Bolhuis
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Preferences and Penalties Differ
Science 20 November 2009; 326 (5956): 1063b
The Mathematics of Sex. How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls, by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Raegen T. Miller
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Asking About Origins
Science 27 November 2009; 326 (5957): 1190
Social Structures, by John Levi Martin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Gagan D. S. Sood
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Quantum Theory’s Silent Pioneer
Science 27 November 2009; 326 (5957): 1191
The Strangest Man. The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius, by Graham Farmelo (Faber and Faber, London, 2009)
reviewed by Mary Jo Nye
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Quantum Theory’s Silent Pioneer
Science 27 November 2009; 326 (5957): 1191
The Strangest Man. The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, by Graham Farmelo (Basic Books, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Mary Jo Nye
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Researchers Writing for the Public
Science 4 December 2009; 326 (5958): 1347
Science for All. The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, by Peter J. Bowler (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009)
reviewed by Melinda Baldwin
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Science Goes Hollywood
Science 4 December 2009; 326 (5958): 1348
Imagine Science Film Festival, by Alexis Gambis, artistic director (New York, 15--25 October 2009. www.imaginesciencefilms.com)
reviewed by Cat Bohannon, Anthony DeCostanzo, Tim Requarth, Abba Dawesar, Annegret Falkner, Stuart Firestein, Cynthia Jung, Anna North, Rachel Riederer, Kim Tingley, and Greg Wayne
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Living Sunlight. How Plants Bring the Earth to Life, by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm (Blue Sky, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Moonshot. The Flight of Apollo 11, by Brian Floca (Athenium, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Redwoods, by Jason Chin (Roaring Brook, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
What Bluebirds Do, by Pamela S. Kirby (Boyds Mills, Honesdale, PA, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Bodies from the Ice. Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past, by James M. Deem (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2008)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Cars on Mars. Roving the Red Planet, by Alexandra Siy (Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner, photographs by Andy Comins (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Lucy Long Ago. Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From, by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Mission Control, This Is Apollo. The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin and Alan Bean (Viking, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Confessions of an Alien Hunter. A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, by Seth Shostak (National Geographic, Washington, DC, 2008)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
The Invisible Kingdom. From the Tips of Our Fingers to the Tops of Our Trash, Inside the Curious World of Microbes, by Idan Ben-Barak (Basic, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Small Wonders. How Microbes Rule Our World, by Idan Ben-Barak (Scribe, Carlton North, Australia, 2008)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
The Survivors Club. The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life, by Ben Sherwood (Grand Central, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
The Survivors Club. The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life, by Ben Sherwood (Michael Joseph, London, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Why Sh*t Happens. The Science of a Really Bad Day, by Peter J. Bentley (Rodale, New York, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
The Undercover Scientist. Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life, by Peter J. Bentley (Arrow, London, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Hebi no Himitsu [Secrets of Snakes], by Ryu Uchiyama (Popular Publishing, Tokyo, 2008)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Enticing Tales of Science—Some Suggestions from 2009
Science 11 December 2009; 326 (5959): 1483
Noasobi Wo Tanoshimu Satoyama Hyakunen Zukan [Enjoying Nature Close at Hand: An Illustrated Guide to Our Enduring Satoyama], by Tatsuhide Matsuoka (Shogakukan, Tokyo, 2009)
reviewed by Heather Malcomson, Barbara Jasny, and Sherman Suter
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Rich Financial Lives of Poor People
Science 18 December 2009; 326 (5960): 1634
Portfolios of the Poor. How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day, by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009)
reviewed by Anirudh Krishna
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We Need to Talk About Bioweapons
Science 18 December 2009; 326 (5960): 1635a
Living Weapons. Biological Warfare and International Security, by Gregory D. Koblentz (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2009)
reviewed by Brian Balmer
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We Need to Talk About Bioweapons
Science 18 December 2009; 326 (5960): 1635a
Breeding Bio Insecurity. How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure, by Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009)
reviewed by Brian Balmer
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Browsings
Science 18 December 2009; 326 (5960): 1635b
Logicomix. An Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie DiDonna (Bloomsbury, New York, 2009)
reviewed by staff
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Browsings
Science 18 December 2009; 326 (5960): 1635b
Logicomix. An Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie DiDonna (Bloomsbury, London, 2009)
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