Books received at Science during the week ending
Friday, August 16, 2013
Animal Body Size
Linking Pattern and Process Across Space, Time, and Taxonomic Group
Felisa A. Smith and S. Kathleen Lyons, Eds.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2013
Hardback: 279 pp., illus. $50, £35. ISBN 9780226012148. ORDER
Arts Integration Handbook
Learning Empowered by the Arts: for Schools and Individual Classroom Practitioners
Arts Integration Solutions
Arts Integration Solutions, Tucson,
2013
Paperback: 146 pp., illus. $16.95. ISBN 9780615770628. ORDER
Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
Gina Perry
New Press, New York,
2013
Hardback: 351 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781595589217. ORDER
The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
Paul Sabin
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,
2013
Hardback: 320 pp., illus. $28.50. ISBN 9780300176483. ORDER
Big Gods
How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Ara Norenzayan
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013
Hardback: 264 pp., illus. $29.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780691151212. ORDER
Black Code
Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Ronald J. Deibert
Signal (McClelland and Stewart), Toronto,
2013
Hardback: 320 pp. $29.99, C$32.99. ISBN 9780771025334. ORDER
Command and Control
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser
Penguin, New York,
2013
Hardback: 656 pp. $36, C$38. ISBN 9781594202278. ORDER
Digital Methods
Richard Rogers
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2013
Hardback: 280 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780262018838. ORDER
Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Thomas H. Lee
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,
2013
Hardback: 397 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780674724976. ORDER
The History of Radiology
Adrian M. K. Thomas and Arpan K. Banerjee
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2013
Hardback: 238 pp., illus. $79.95, £44.99. ISBN 9780199639977. ORDER
Oxford Medical Histories.
The Human Microbiome
Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns
Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov, and Abraham Paul Schwab, Eds.
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2013
Hardback: 280 pp. $55, £35. ISBN 9780199829415. ORDER
I Don't Know
In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)
Leah Hager Cohen
Riverhead (Penguin), New York,
2013
Hardback: 128 pp. $17.95, C$19.50. ISBN 9781594632396. ORDER
Invisible Nature
Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
Kenneth Worthy
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,
2013
Paperback: 396 pp., illus. $19, C$20. ISBN 9781616147631. ORDER
Irrationality in Health Care
What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why
Douglas E. Hough
Stanford Economics and Finance (Stanford University Press), Stanford, CA,
2013
Hardback: 311 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780804777971. ORDER
Lily
Marcia Reiss
Reaktion, London,
2013
Hardback: 224 pp., illus. $27, £16. ISBN 9781780230931. ORDER
Botanical.
Maverick Genius
The Pioneering Odyssey of Freeman Dyson
Phillip F. Schewe
Thomas Dunne (St. Martin's), New York,
2013
Hardback: 351 pp., illus. $27.99, C$31.99. ISBN 9780312642358. ORDER
Mortal Rituals
What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution
Matt J. Rossano
Columbia University Press, New York,
2013
Hardback: 246 pp., illus. $29.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780231165006. ORDER
The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy
More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe
Cornelia Dean, Ed.
Sterling, New York,
2013
Hardback: 576 pp., illus. $24.95, C$26.95. ISBN 9781402793202. ORDER
Newton and the Netherlands
How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic
Eric Jorink et al., Eds.
Leiden University Press, Amsterdam,
2013
Paperback: 256 pp., illus. $37. ISBN 9789087281373. ORDER
Our Political Nature
The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
Avi Tuschman
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,
2013
Hardback: 543 pp., illus. $24.95, C$26.50. ISBN 9781616148232. ORDER
Paleoclimate
Michael L. Bender
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013
Hardback: 320 pp., illus. $80, £55. ISBN 9780691145549. ORDER
Paperback: 320 pp., illus. $27.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780691145556. ORDER
Princeton Primers on Climate.
Pine
Laura Mason
Reaktion, London,
2013
Hardback: 214 pp., illus. $27, £16. ISBN 9781780231013. ORDER
Botanical.
Planetary Climates
Andrew P. Ingersoll
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013
Hardback: 286 pp., illus. $75, £52. ISBN 9780691145044. ORDER
Paperback: 286 pp., illus. $27.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780691145051. ORDER
Princeton Primers on Climate.
Population Ecology
First Principles. 2nd ed.
John H. Vandermeer and Deborah E. Goldberg
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013
Hardback: 277 pp., illus. $95, £65. ISBN 9780691160306. ORDER
Paperback: 277 pp., illus. $75, £52. ISBN 9780691160313. ORDER
Primates of the World
An Illustrated Guide
Jean-Jacques Petter and François Desbordes
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013
Hardback: 192 pp., illus. $29.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780691156958. ORDER
Translated from the French edition (Paris, 2010) by Robert Martin.
The Secret World of Sleep
The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest
Penelope A. Lewis
Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's), New York,
2013
Hardback: 208 pp., illus. $27, C$31. ISBN 9780230107595. ORDER
Sharks
Ancient Predators in a Modern Sea
Salvador Jorgensen
Firefly, Buffalo,
2013
Hardback: 256 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781770852334. ORDER
Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
David Herman
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2013
Hardback: 442 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262019187. ORDER
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2013
Paperback: 222 pp. $21. ISBN 9780262519595. ORDER
Basic Bioethics.
Ten Billion
Stephen Emmott
Vintage (Random House), New York,
2013
Paperback: 224 pp., illus. $12.95. ISBN 9780345806475. ORDER
Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe
Lars-Henrik Olsen
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013
Paperback: 273 pp., illus. $29.95, £17.95. ISBN 9780691157535. ORDER
What Is a Superhero?
Robin S. Rosenberg and Peter Coogan, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,
2013
Hardback: 199 pp. $24.95, £15.99. ISBN 9780199795277. ORDER
What Is Chemistry?
Peter Atkins
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2013
Hardback: 132 pp. $19.95, £11.99. ISBN 9780199683987. ORDER
The Why of Things
Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life
Peter V. Rabins
Columbia University Press, New York,
2013
Hardback: 290 pp., illus. $28.95. ISBN 9780231164726. ORDER