Reviews

  1. No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot

    A microbiologist tells tales of his adventures in Africa battling infectious diseases from Ebola to AIDS. W.W. Norton & Co., 2012, 304 p., $28.95

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  2. Secret Lives of Ants by Jae Choe

    Enter  the miniature world of ants and learn about their societies, from massacres and  power plays to self-sacrifice and factory-like enterprises. Johns Hopkins Univ., 2012, 156 p., $34.95

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  3. BOOK REVIEW: The Man with the Bionic Brain: And Other Victories over Paralysis by Jon Mukand

    Review by Laura Sanders.

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  4. BOOK REVIEW: Dialogues on 2012: Why the World Will Not End by Christopher Keating

    Review by Tina Hesman Saey.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Destination Mars

    New Explorations of the Red Planet by Rod Pyle

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  6. Materials Science

    Sensitive Matter: Foams, Gels, Liquid Crystals, and Other Miracles by Michel Mitov

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Internal Time

    Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg.

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  8. Plants

    The Man Who Planted Trees

    Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Why Calories Count

    From Science to Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.

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  10. Animals

    Mr. Hornaday’s War

    How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World by Stefan Bechtel.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle

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  12. The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall

    Superbly simple illustrations by Patricia J. Wynne complement this road map to the brain’s evolution. Yale Univ., 2012, 368 p., $29.95

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