Reviews
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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.
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The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide
by Michael Allaby, Robert Coenraads, Stephen Hutchinson, Karen McGhee and John O’Byrne, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 608 p., $39.95.
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- Astronomy
The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It.
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Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology
edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Yale Univ. Press, 2008, 416 p., $40.
- Agriculture
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Robert Paarlberg, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 235 p., $24.95.
- Life
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their Patients
Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima (eds.), Delacorte Press, 2008, 312 p., $22.
