Weekly Books Received List
Books received at Science during the week ending
Friday, January 04, 2008
Affinity Chromatography
Methods and Protocols. 2nd ed.
Michael Zachariou, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 355 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781588296597. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 421.
Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Dan Koeppel
Hudson Street (Penguin), New York,
2008
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $23.95, C$28.50. ISBN 9781594630385. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Big Switch
Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Nicholas Carr
Norton, New York,
2008
Hardback: 286 pp. $25.95, C$28.50. ISBN 9780393062281. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biobazaar
The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology
Janet Hope
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,
2008
Hardback: 438 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9780674026353. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Bridging Islands
Venture Companies and the Future of Japanese and American Industry
Robert Kneller
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2007
Hardback: 414 pp. $85. ISBN 9780199268801. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Catalog of Teratogenic Agents
12th ed.
Thomas H. Shepard and Ronald J. Lemire
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,
2008
Hardback: 575 pp. $240. ISBN 9780801887420. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Climate Change 2007
Mitigation of Climate Change
Bert Metz et al., Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,
2008
Hardback: 861 pp., illus. $165. ISBN 9780521880114. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 861 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780521705981. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Comparative Genomics
Vol. 1
Nicholas H. Bergman, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 560 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 9781588296931. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 395.
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
David Sedley
University of California Press, Berkeley,
2008
Hardback: 287 pp. $29.95, £17.95. ISBN 9780520253643. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Deadly Companions
How Microbes Shaped Our History
Dorothy H. Crawford
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2008
Hardback: 264 pp., illus. $35.95, £16.99. ISBN 9780192807199. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Downstream
Encounters with the Colorado River
Karen Halverson
University of California Press, Berkeley,
2008
Hardback: 156 pp., illus. $34.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780520253469. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecology and Management of the North American Moose
2nd ed.
Albert W. Franzmann and Charles C. Schwartz, Eds.
University Press of Colorado, Boulder,
2008
Hardback: 759 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780870818950. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Exocytosis and Endocytosis
Andrei I. Ivanov, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 428 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781588298652. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 440.
Family Relationships
An Evolutionary Perspective
Catherine A. Salmon and Todd K. Shackelford, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,
2007
Hardback: 376 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9780195320510. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
A Fragile Balance
The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials
Christopher Dickman
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2008
Hardback: 256 pp., illus. $65, £34. ISBN 9780226146300. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Futures from Nature
Henry Gee, Ed.
Tor (Tom Doherty Associates), New York,
2007
Hardback: 320 pp. $24.95, C$28.95. ISBN 9780765318053. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The GenoType Diet
Peter J. D'Adamo, with Catherine Whitney
Broadway (Random House), New York,
2007
Hardback: 347 pp., illus. $24.95, C$32. ISBN 9780767925242. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Healing the Land and the Nation
Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947
Sandra M. Sufian
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2007
Hardback: 405 pp., illus. $40, £21. ISBN 9780226779355. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
David W. Anthony
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 559 pp., illus. $35, £19.95. ISBN 9780691058870. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The How of Happiness
A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Penguin, New York,
2008
Hardback: 381 pp. $25.95, C$31. ISBN 9781594201486. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Intern
A Doctor's Initiation
Sandeep Jauhar
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York,
2008
Hardback: 315 pp. $25, C$29. ISBN 9780374146597. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
International Research on Natural Resource Management
Advances in Impact Assessment
H. Waibel and D. Zilberman, Eds.
CABI, Wallingford, UK,
2007
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $150. ISBN 9781845932831. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Life as It Is
Biology for the Public Sphere
William F. Loomis
University of California Press, Berkeley,
2008
Hardback: 265 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520253575. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Made with Words
Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Philip Pettit
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 191 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780691129297. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Mirrors in the Brain
How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2008
Hardback: 256 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9780199217984. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the Italian edition (2006) by Frances Anderson.
Molecular Biology of the Gene
6th ed.
James D. Watson et al.
Benjamin Cummings (Pearson Education), San Francisco,
2008
Hardback: 873 pp., illus. $151. ISBN 9780805395921. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Copublished with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
Helen R. Quinn and Yossi Nir
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 292 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780691133096. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Neuroarthistory
From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki
John Onians
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,
2008
Hardback: 239 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780300126778. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Nobel Faces
A Gallery of Nobel Prize Winners
Peter Badge
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany,
2007
Hardback: 629 pp., illus. $95. ISBN 9783527406784. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Plant Embryogenesis
María F. Suárez and Peter V. Bozhkov, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 194 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781588299314. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 427.
Relics of Eden
The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
Daniel J. Fairbanks
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,
2008
Hardback: 281 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9781591025641. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Revolution in Mind
The Creation of Psychoanalysis
George Makari
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,
2008
Hardback: 623 pp., illus. $32.50, C$34.95. ISBN 9780061346613. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Secret Pulse of Time
Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity
Stefan Klein
Marlowe (Avalon Publishing Group), New York,
2007
Hardback: 367 pp., illus. $25, C$30. ISBN 9781600940170. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)
Methods and Protocols
Kåre Lehmann Nielsen, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 218 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781588296764. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 387.
Shopping Our Way to Safety
How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
Andrew Szasz
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,
2008
Hardback: 337 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9780816635085. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Skywatching in the Ancient World
New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy
Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton, Eds.
University Press of Colorado, Boulder,
2008
Hardback: 416 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780870818875. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems
Costs and Benefits
Bjorn Lomborg, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
2008
Paperback: 460 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780521715973. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
State of the World 2008
Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
Linda Starke, Ed.
Norton, New York,
2008
Paperback: 287 pp., illus. $18.95, C$18.95. ISBN 9780393330311. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Telomerase Inhibition
Strategies and Protocols
Lucy G. Andrews and Trygve O. Tollefsbol, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ,
2008
Hardback: 203 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781588296832. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 405.
Trees
A Visual Guide
Tony Rodd and Jennifer Stackhouse
University of California Press, Berkeley,
2008
Hardback: 306 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780520256507. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Unequal Opportunity
Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States
Richard J. Wolitski, Ron Stall, and Ronald O. Valdiserri, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,
2008
Hardback: 413 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9780195301533. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Your Inner Fish
A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
Pantheon, New York,
2008
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $24, C$28. ISBN 9780375424472. ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)