Reviews
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Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher
Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 326 p., $25.
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Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Health scares come and go, but they often have a tenuous scientific basis. Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist, systematically rips through cancer alerts that overrode scientific rigor in recent decades. In so doing, he dispels the dubious science underlying the scares and explains how public confusion can come about. A […]
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the Sky’s Most Brilliant Stars by Fred Schaaf
John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2008, 281 p., $19.95.
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Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 321 p., $25.
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Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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The Complete Herb Book
Jekka McVicar, Firefly Books, 2008, 304 p., $29.95.
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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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What’s the Big Idea? Four Centuries of Innovation in Boston
Stephen Krensky, Charlesbridge, 2008, 64 p., $18.95.
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Out of the Blue
John S. Friedman, Delacorte Press, 2008, 290 p., $24.
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Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, DK Publishing, 2008, 208 p., $25.
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Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art
by J.R. Leibowitz, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008, 160 p., $24.95.
