Am I Making Myself Clear?
A Scientists's Guide to Talking to the Public
Cornelia Dean
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009
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Atomic
The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949
Jim Baggott
Icon, Cambridge, 2009
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Atomic Obsession
Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
John Mueller
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
Elizabeth Kolbert, Ed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2009
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The Big Questions
Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
Steven Landsburg
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York, 2009
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Biodesign
The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies
Stefanos Zenios, Josh Makower, and Paul Yock, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants
Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, and Madeline Harley. Alexandra Papadakis, Ed.
Firefly, Buffalo, 2009
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A Body Worth Defending
Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
Ed Cohen
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2009
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Brain Sense
The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us
Faith Hickman Brynie
AMACOM, New York, 2009
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Bright Wings
An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Billy Collins, Ed. Paintings by David Allen Sibley
Columbia University Press, New York, 2009
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The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary
2nd ed.
Bill Gunston
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Cancer Stem Cells
William L. Farrar, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Cave Biology
Life in Darkness
Aldemaro Romero
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation.

Comets and the Origin of Life
Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe, and William Napier
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009
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The Coral Thief
A Novel
Rebecca Stott
Spiegel and Grau (Random House), New York, 2009
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Vol. 17, 1869
Frederick Burkhardt et al., Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Creating Modern Neuroscience
The Revolutionary 1950s
Gordon M. Sheperd
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Dinosaur Odyssey
Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
Scott D. Sampson
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009
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Doing Science
Design, Analysis, and Communication of Scientific Research. 2nd ed.
Ivan Valiela
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Dreaming the Biosphere
The Theater of All Possibilities
Rebecca Reider
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2009
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Duplicity Theory of Vision
From Newton to the Present
Bjorn Stabell and Ulf Stabell, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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The Earth After Us
What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
Jan Zalasiewicz, with contributions from Kim Freedman
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Eating History
30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Andrew F. Smith
Columbia University Press, New York, 2009
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Arts and Traditions of the Table.

Edison's Concrete Piano
Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
Judy Wearing
ECW, Montreal, 2009
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The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses
Edward C. Holmes
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution.

Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method
Theory and Applications in Engineering
Yijun Liu
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Fat Detection
Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects
Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and Johannes le Coutre, Eds.
CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group), Boca Raton, FL, 2009
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Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Frank Julian Sprague
Electrical Inventor and Engineer
William D. Middleton and William D. Middleton III
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2009
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From Boys to Men of Heart
Hunting as Rite of Passage
Randall L. Eaton
OWLink Media, Shelton, WA, 2009
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From Rage to Courage
Answers to Readers' Letters
Alice Miller
Norton, New York, 2009
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Fundamentals of Fluid Power Control
John Watton
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices
2nd ed.
Yuan Taur and Tak H. Ning
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Gems and Gemstones
Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009
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Getting What We Deserve
Health and Medical Care in America
Alfred Sommer
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009
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Giant Molecules
From Nylon to Nanotubes
Walter Gratzer
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Gifts from the Ancestors
Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait
William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell, Eds.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 2009
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A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
3rd ed.
David P. Landau and Kurt Binder
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Guided Explorations of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures
Strategies for Solving Unfamiliar Problems
James F. Doyle
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Cambridge Aerospace.

Handbook of Reward and Decision Making
Jean-Claude Dreher and Léon Tremblay, Eds.
Academic (Elsevier), Burlington, MA, 2009
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Holocene Extinctions
Samuel T. Turvey, Ed.
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Impulsivity
The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting
Gregory J. Madden and Warren K. Bickel, Eds.
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2009
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Introducing Ethics
A Graphic Guide
Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt
Icon, Cambridge, 2009
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Copublished by Totem, New York.

An Introduction to the Academic Politics in Agricultural Research
Richard L. Cooper
Dorrance, Pittsburgh, 2009
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The Joy of Chemistry
The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf
Prometheus, Amherst, NY, 2009
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Laws and Lawmakers
Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature
Marc Lange
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Life along the Inner Coast
A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West
Robert L. Lippson and Alice Jane Lippson
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2009
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The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy
Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame
Ruth Richardson
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009
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Reprint, 2008 ed.

The Metamorphosis of Plants
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009
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Models of Conflict and Cooperation
Rick Gillman and David Housman
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2009
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A Mysterious Masterpiece
The World of the Linder Gallery
Michael John Gorman
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2009
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Noncircular Gears
Design and Generation
Faydor L. Litvin et al.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Non-Linear Modeling and Analysis of Solids and Structures
Steen Krenk
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Not Always Buried Deep
A Second Course in Elementary Number Theory
Paul Pollack
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2009
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Numerical Methods in Engineering with MATLAB
2nd ed.
Jaan Kiusalaas
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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One to Nine
The Inner Life of Numbers
Andres Hodges
Norton, New York, 2009
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Owl
Desmond Morris
Reaktion, London, 2009
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Animal.

Perfect Rigor
A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
Masha Gessen
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2009
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Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports
Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues
Thomas H. Murray, Karen J. Maschke, and Angela A. Wasunna, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009
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Pick of the Bunch
The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
Margaret Willes
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2009
Hardback: 168 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9781851243037.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Planet Ape
Desmond Morris, with Steve Parker
Firefly, Buffalo, 2009
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Pluto Confidential
An Insider Account of the Ongoing Battles over the Status of Pluto
Laurence A. Marschall
BenBella, Dallas, 2009
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The Poison King
The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Adrienne Mayor
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009
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Political Affect
Connecting the Social and the Somatic
John Protevi
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009
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The Prism of Grammar
How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
Tom Roeper
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009
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Reprint, 2007 ed.

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Quantized Fields and Gravity
Leonard E. Parker and David J. Toms
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics.

Reinforcement of Polymer Nano-Composites
Theory, Experiments and Applications
T. A. Vilgis, G. Heinrich, and M. Klüppel
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Roadside Geology of Minnesota
Richard W. Ojakangas
Mountain, Missoula, MT, 2009
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Routes of Learning
Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009
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Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Stephen H. Schneider
National Geographic Books, Washington, DC, 2009
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Science on the Home Front
American Women Scientists in World War II
Jordynn Jack
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2009
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Scientific Understanding
Philosophical Perspectives
Henk E. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, and Kai Eigner
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2009
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Sloshing
Odd M. Faltinsen and Alexander N. Timokha
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Soil Mechanics
A One-Dimensional Introduction
David Muir Wood
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors
The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World
Jeremy Coller, with Christine Chamberlain
Overlook (Peter Mayer), New York, 2009
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Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys
Fundamentals and Device Applications
Shuichi Miyazaki, Yong Qing Fu, and Wei Min Huang, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Topology for Computing
Afra J. Zomorodian
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Transport in Laser Microfabrication
Fundamentals and Applications
Costas P. Grigoropoulos
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Transport in Nanostructures
2nd ed.
David K. Ferry, Stephen M. Goodnick and Jonathan Bird
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009
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Trees of Rivers
The Story of the Amazon
John Hemming
Thames and Hudson, New York, 2009
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Trust
Self-Interest and the Common Good
Marek Kohn
Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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The Wetlands Handbook
Edward Maltby and Tom Barker, Eds.
Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2009
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What's So Great About Granite?
Jennifer H. Carey
Mountain, Missoula, MT, 2009
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When the Rains Come
A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert
John Alcock
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2009
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Who Turned Out the Lights?
Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson
Harper (HarperCollins), New York, 2009
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Who's In Charge?
Leadership During Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises
Laura H. Kahn
Praeger Security International (Greenwood), Westport, CT, 2009
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Why Architecture Matters
Paul Goldberger
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009
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Write an Effective Funding Application
A Guide for Resarchers and Scholars
Mary W. Walters
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009
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