Reviews

  1. Astronomy

    Stargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy by Paul E. Kinzer

    Cambridge Univ., 2008, 147 p., $19.99.

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  2. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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  3. California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Richard A. Minnich

    Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.

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  4. Extreme Birds: The World’s Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds by Dominic Couzens

    Firefly, 2008, 287 p., $45.

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  5. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis

    Addison-Wesley, 2008, 366 p., $25.95.

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  6. The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science by Sheilla Jones

    Oxford Univ., 2008, 323 p., $24.95.

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  7. Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry by Joel Paris

    Oxford Univ., 2008, 247 p., $29.50.

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  8. Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals by Jack P. Hailman

    Harvard Univ., 2008, 257 p., $39.95.

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  9. Math

    Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

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  10. Science & Society

    All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan

    NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.

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  11. Climate

    Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat— And How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

    Hill and Wang, 2008, 253 p., $25.

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  12. Book Review: Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff

    Review by Dina Fine Maron.

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