Reviews

  1. Coal River by Michael Shnayerson

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 321 p., $25.

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  2. Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

    Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.

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  3. The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

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  4. The Complete Herb Book

    Jekka McVicar, Firefly Books, 2008, 304 p., $29.95.

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  5. DNA: Promise and Peril

    Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 339 p., $39.95.

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  6. What’s the Big Idea? Four Centuries of Innovation in Boston

    Stephen Krensky, Charlesbridge, 2008, 64 p., $18.95.

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  7. Out of the Blue

    John S. Friedman, Delacorte Press, 2008, 290 p., $24.

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  8. Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming

    Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, DK Publishing, 2008, 208 p., $25.

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  9. Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art

    by J.R. Leibowitz, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008, 160 p., $24.95.

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  10. Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

    by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 384 p., $45.

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  11. Science & Society

    Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science

    An Astronomer Among the American Romantics.

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  12. Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society

    by Bernard Chapais, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 349 p., $39.95.

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