Reviews

  1. Neuroscience

    Hallucinations

    by Oliver Sacks.

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  2. BOOK REVIEW: Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church and Ed Regis

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

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  3. The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery by Andrew Robinson, ed.

    Short biographies of scientists through the ages, from Copernicus to Watson and Crick, illustrate where new ideas and discoveries come from. Thames & Hudson, 2012, 304 p., $45

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  4. Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch, eds.

    Online worlds are re­defining what it means to be human, according to the authors of these anthropological essays on digital culture. Univ. Press of Colorado, 2012, 243 p., $75

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  5. Space

    The Real Story of Risk: Adventures in a Hazardous World by Glenn Croston

    A biologist explores why humans are poor at judging risk — fearing rare shark attacks, for example, more than common heart attacks. Prometheus, 2012, 276 p., $19

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  6. Darwin: Portrait of a Genius by Paul Johnson

    A historian celebrates Charles Darwin’s triumphs and analyzes his weaknesses in the latest biography of the naturalist. Viking, 2012, 164 p., $25.95

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  7. The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind by Seth S. Horowitz

    This review of the science of hearing considers how people have learned to create and control music, sonic weapons and other noises. Bloomsbury, 2012, 305 p., $25

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  8. Astronomy

    Mirror Earth

    The Search for Our Planet's Twin by Michael D. Lemonick.

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  9. Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel by Dorion Sagan, ed.

    Friends and colleagues reflect on the contributions of one of the 20th century’s most influential biologists. Chelsea Green, 2012, 205 p., $27.95

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  10. Cosmology

    Edge of the Universe

    A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond by Paul Halpern.

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  11. BOOK REVIEW: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth by Craig Childs

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  12. Particle Physics

    The Particle at the End of the Universe

    How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World, by Sean Carroll.

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