Weekly Books Received List
Books received at Science during the week ending
Friday, June 08, 2007
American Windmills
An Album of Historic Photographs
T. Lindsay Baker
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman,
2007
Hardback: 168 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 9780806138022. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Are You a Machine?
The Brain, the Mind, and What It Means to Be Human
Eliezer J. Sternberg
Humanity (Prometheus), Amherst, NY,
2007
Paperback: 176 pp., illus. $16. ISBN 9781591024835. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Artificial Consciousness
Antonio Chella and Riccardo Manzotti, Eds.
Imprint Academic, Charlottesville, VA,
2007
Paperback: 290 pp., illus. $34.90, £17.95. ISBN 9781845400705. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Atlantic Salmon
Genetics, Conservation and Management
Eric Verspoor, Lee Stradmeyer, and Jennifer Nielsen, Eds.
Blackwell, Oxford,
2007
Hardback: 520 pp., illus. £105. ISBN 9781405115827. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival
The Remaking of American Environmentalism
Michael Egan
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2007
Hardback: 297 pp. $28. ISBN 9780262050869. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Urban and Industrial Environments.
Bayesian Brain
Probabilistic Approaches to Neural Coding
Kenji Doya et al.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2007
Hardback: 340 pp., illus. $54. ISBN 9780262042383. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biogerontology
Mechanisms and Interventions
Suresh I. S. Ruttan and Serif Akman, Eds.
Blackwell, Malden, MA,
2007
Paperback: 579 pp., illus. $145, £75. ISBN 9781573316798. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1100.
Biology of Emerging Viruses
SARS, Avian and Human Influenza, Metapneumovirus, Nipah, West Nile, and Ross River Virus
Sunil K. Lal, Ed.
Blackwell, Malden, MA,
2007
Hardback: 161 pp., illus. $125. ISBN 9781573316903. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1102.
Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
The Twenty-Eighth Symposium
Jonathan R. Mielenz et al., Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2007
Hardback: 1010 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781603271806. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vols. 137-140 (Spring 2007).
Building the World
An Encyclopedia of the Great Engineering Projects in History
Frank P. Davidson and Kathleen Lusk Brooke
Greenwood, New York,
2007
Hardback: 2 vols. 972 pp., illus. $199.95, £115. ISBN 9780313333545. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cerebrum 2007
Emerging Ideas in Brain Science
Cynthia A. Read, Ed.
Dana Press, Washington, DC,
2007
Paperback: 267 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 9781932594249. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Chemokine Biology - Basic Research and Clinical Application
Vol. 2, Pathophysiology of Chemokines
Kuldeep Neote, Gordon L. Letts, and Bernhard Moser, Eds.
Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland,
2007
Hardback: 182 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9783764371951. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Progress in Inflammation Research.
The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology
C. Ray Chandler, Lorne M. Wolfe, and E. L. Daniel Promislow
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2007
Paperback: 160 pp., illus. $14, £9. ISBN 9780226101309. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Chicago's Urban Nature
A Guide to the City's Architecture and Landscape
Sally A. Kitt Chappell
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2007
Hardback: 283 pp., illus. $45, £28.50. ISBN 9780226101392. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 283 pp., illus. $20, £13. ISBN 9780226101408. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Conservation Professional's Guide to Working with People
Scott A. Bonar
Island, Washington, DC,
2007
Hardback: 218 pp. $50. ISBN 9781597261470. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 218 pp. $25. ISBN 9781597261487. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cosmetic Nanotechnology
Polymers and Colloids in Personal Care
Sarah E. Morgan, Kathleen O. Havelka, and Robert Y.Lochhead, Eds.
American Chemical Society, Washington, DC,
2007
Hardback: 235 pp., illus. $145, £88. ISBN 9780841239968. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
ACS Symposium, 961.
Echo Objects
The Cognitive Work of Images
Barbara Maria Stafford
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2007
Hardback: 295 pp., illus. $45, £27. ISBN 9780226770512. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Electron Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules
Robert M. Glaeser et al.
Oxford University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 492 pp., illus. $124.50. ISBN 9780195088717. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century
The Hierarchy of Energy
Howard T. Odum
Columbia University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 432 pp., illus. $74.50, £48. ISBN 9780231128865. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 432 pp., illus. $39.50, £25.50. ISBN 9780231128872. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Escape from Empire
The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell
Alice H. Amsden
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2007
Hardback: 207 pp. $27.50. ISBN 9780262012348. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Forest Ecology and Conservation
A Handbook of Techniques
Adrian C. Newton
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2007
Hardback: 470 pp., illus. £60. ISBN 9780198567448. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 470 pp., illus. £27.50. ISBN 9780198567455. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Techniques in Ecology and Conservation.
Geology Underfoot in Northern Arizona
Lon Abbott and Terri Cook
Mountain, Missoula, MT,
2007
Paperback: 336 pp., illus. $18. ISBN 9780878425280. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics
2nd ed.
Smilka Zdravkovska and Peter L. Duren, Eds.
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI,
2007
Hardback: 318 pp., illus. $59; to AMS members, $47. ISBN 9780821842614. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Copublished with the London Mathematical Society. History of Mathematics, vol. 6.
The Heart
James Peto, Ed.
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,
2007
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780300125108. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Copublished with the Wellcome Collection, London.
A History of Modern Experimental Psychology
From James and Wundt to Cognitive Science
George Mandler
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2007
Hardback: 309 pp. $34, £20.95. ISBN 9780262134750. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
HIV, AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being
Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton, Eds.
University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY,
2007
Hardback: 428 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9781580462402. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
How People Change
The Short Story as Case History
William Tucker
Other, New York,
2007
Paperback: 336 pp. $35. ISBN 9781590512128. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Last Human
A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
Esteban Sarmiento, G. J. Sawyer, and Richard Milner
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,
2007
Hardback: 256 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780300100471. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services
J. B. Ruhl, Steven E. Kraft, and Christopher L. Lant
Island, Washington, DC,
2007
Hardback: 357 pp. $70. ISBN 9781559630948. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 357 pp. $35. ISBN 9781559630955. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Leviathan
The History of Whaling in America
Eric Jay Dolin
Norton, New York,
2007
Hardback: 480 pp., illus. $27.95, C$35. ISBN 9780393060577. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Living Jewels 2
The Magical Design of Beetles
Poul Beckmann
Prestel, Munich,
2007
Hardback: 112 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9783791337777. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Molecular Genetics of Bacteria
3rd ed.
Larry Snyder and Wendy Champness
ASM Press, Washington, DC,
2007
Hardback: 753 pp., illus. $109.95. ISBN 9781555813994. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
No Two Alike
Human Nature and Human Individuality
Judith Rich Harris
Norton, New York,
2007
Paperback: 343 pp., illus. $16.95, C$21. ISBN 9780393329711. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.
On Being Moved
From Mirror Neurons to Empathy
Stein Bråten, Ed.
John Benjamins, Philadelphia,
2007
Hardback: 343 pp., illus. $132, €110. ISBN 9789027252043. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Consciousness Research, 68.
On Love
In the Muslim Tradition
Rusmir Mahmutcehajic
Fordham University Press, Bronx, NY,
2007
Hardback: 189 pp. $25. ISBN 9780823227518. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated by Celia Hawkesworth. Abrahamic Dialogues, no. 7.
Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber
Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management
Nicholas K. Menzies
Columbia University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 276 pp., illus. $50, £32.50. ISBN 9780231136921. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Peptide Characterization and Application Protocols
Gregg B. Fields, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2007
Hardback: 354 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781588295507. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 386.
Plum and Posner's Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma
4th ed.
Jerome B. Posner et al.
Oxford University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 415 pp., illus. $79.50. ISBN 9780195321319. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Drew Westen
PublicAffairs (Perseus), New York,
2007
Hardback: 475 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781586484255. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Principles and Standards for Measuring Primary Production
Timothy J. Fahey and Alan K. Knapp, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 280 pp., illus. £35.99. ISBN 9780195168662. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Long-Term Ecological Research Network.
Protein Targeting Protocols
2nd ed.
Mark van der Giezen, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2007
Hardback: 517 pp., illus. $139. ISBN 9781588297020. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 390.
Pushed
The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
Jennifer Block
Da Capo (Perseus), Cambridge, MA,
2007
Hardback: 336 pp. $26, £15.99, C$31.50. ISBN 9780738210735. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Quantifying Behavior the JWatcher Way
Daniel T. Blumstein and Janice C. Daniel
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,
2007
Paperback: 221 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9780878930470. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reaction Mechanisms of Inorganic and Organometallic Systems
3rd ed.
Robert B. Jordan
Oxford University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 531 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780195301007. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Topics in Inorganic Chemistry.
Reproductive Biomechanics
David Elad and Roger C. Young, Eds.
Blackwell, Malden, MA,
2007
Paperback: 540 pp., illus. $145, £75, A$247. ISBN 9781573316736. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1101.
The Revenge of Gaia
Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
James Lovelock
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,
2007
Paperback: 198 pp., illus. $15.95. ISBN 9780465041695. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.
Savage Perils
Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture
Patrick B. Sharp
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman,
2007
Hardback: 284 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 9780806138220. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Social Brain Matters
Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition
Oscar Vilarroya and Francesc Forn i Argimon, Eds.
Rodopi, Atlanta,
2007
Paperback: 317 pp., illus. $86.40. ISBN 9789042022164. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Value Inquiry Book.
Sodium-Calcium Exchange and the Plasma Membrane Ca2+-ATPase in Cell Function
Fifth International Conference
André Herchuelz et al., Eds.
Blackwell, Malden, MA,
2007
Paperback: 565 pp., illus. $145, £75, A$247. ISBN 9781573316491. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1099.
Surviving Armageddon
Solutions for a Threatened Planet
Bill McGuire
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2007
Paperback: 248 pp., illus. £8.99. ISBN 9780192805720. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2005 ed.
Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!)
A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
Michael Hanlon
Macmillan, London,
2007
Hardback: 200 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9780230517585. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Toxic Exposures
Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
Phil Brown
Columbia University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 392 pp. $29.50, £19. ISBN 9780231129480. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Trap
Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America
Daniel Brook
Times (Henry Holt), New York,
2007
Hardback: 287 pp. $23, C$29. ISBN 9780805080650. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Universal Force
Bronislaw Idasiak
RoseDog, Pittsburgh,
2007
Paperback: 179 pp., illus. $18. ISBN 9780805988536. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Unknown Quantity
A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
John Derbyshire
Plume (Penguin Group USA), New York,
2007
Paperback: 382 pp., illus. $16, C$20. ISBN 9780452288539. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish
And Other Tales About the Genes in Your Body
Lisa Seachrist Chiu
Oxford University Press, New York,
2007
Paperback: 231 pp. $15.95. ISBN 9780195327069. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.
Where Medicine Went Wrong
Rediscovering the Path to Complexity
Bruce J. West
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,
2006
Paperback: 351 pp., illus. $42, £23. ISBN 9789812568830. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science, vol. 11.
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?
And 114 Other Questions
New Scientist
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,
2007
Paperback: 220 pp. $14. ISBN 9781416541462. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.
The Winds of Change
Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
Eugene Linden
Simon and Schuster, New York,
2007
Paperback: 333 pp., illus. $15, C$18.99. ISBN 9780684863535. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed. Reviewed by Andrew Goudie, Science 312, 5776 (19 May 2006).
Wired Shut
Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Tarleton Gillespie
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2007
Hardback: 403 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780262072823. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
