Reviews
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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.
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Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 384 p., $45.
- Science & Society
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science
An Astronomer Among the American Romantics.
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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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The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale Univ. Press, 2008, 342 p., $30.
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One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!
Eric Yoder and Natalie Yoder, Science, Naturally!, 2008, 176 p., $9.95.
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Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
by Stephen J. Pyne, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008, 325 p., $16.
