Reviews

  1. Agriculture

    Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa

    by Robert Paarlberg, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 235 p., $24.95.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    The Woman Who Can’t Forget

    Jill Price, Simon & Schuster, 2008, 263 p., $26.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    The Handy Anatomy Answer Book

    Naomi E. Balaban and James E. Bobick, Visible Ink Press, 2008, 376 p., $21.95.

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  5. Humans

    Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science

    Richard Preston, Random House, 2008, 240 p., $26.

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  6. Math

    The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

    Leonard Mlodinow, Pantheon Books, 2008, 272 p., $24.95.

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  7. Science & Society

    BOOK REVIEW | The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man

    Review by Tia Ghose.

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  8. Climate

    BOOK LIST | Flash Floods in Texas

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  9. Archaeology

    BOOK LIST | The Tomb in Ancient Egypt

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  10. BOOK REVIEW | Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

    Review by Kristina Bartlett Brody.

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  11. BOOK REVIEW | Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others

    Review by Amy Maxmen.

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  12. BOOK LIST | Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul

    ONLY A THEORY: EVOLUTION AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA’S SOUL CTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd”> Miller, a BrownUniversity biology professor and outspoken opponent of intelligent design, examines the arguments, passion and motivations of those who reject Darwin’s theory in the larger context of American culture, ending with an exploration of how the […]

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