Reviews
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A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians
Learn about mathematicians from Archimedes to Alexander Grothendieck, who learned math in a Nazi concentration camp. Sterling, 2011, 284 p., $24.95
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis) by Sally Smith Hughes
A genetic engineering company’s meteoric rise illustrates the development of the biotech industry. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 213 p., $25
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Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves (Philosophy in Action) by Allen Buchanan
A philosopher examines biomedical enhancement — from improving memory to increasing stamina — and approaches to its future applications. Oxford Univ. Press, 2011, 199 p., $21.95
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Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs, Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson, eds.
Interviews reveal people who have shaped mathematics, like “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin and Harold Bacon, who taught calculus to an Alcatraz prisoner. Princeton Univ. Press, 2011, 328 p., $35
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, Mary Roach, ed.
Relive or discover nonfiction science writing from the last year on topics from captive orcas to organ selling. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 384 p., $14.95
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Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (FT Press Science) by Samuel Barondes
A psychiatrist describes how findings in personality research can be used in everyday life to understand others and improve relationships. FT Press, 2011, 230 p., $25.99
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Invasion of the Body: Revolutions in Surgery by Nicholas L. Tilney
The history of modern surgery is revealed through tales of surgical breakthroughs at a Boston teaching hospital that opened in 1913. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 358 p., $29.95
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BOOK REVIEW: The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe
Review by Erika Engelhaupt.
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A Bee in a Cathedral: And 99 Other Scientific Analogies by Joel Levy
One hundred analogies and metaphors make science more visual: Learn how chemical reactions are like school dances and how long it would take to type the human genome. A BEE IN A CATHEDRAL, JOEL LEVY Firefly Books, 2011, 224 p., $29.95
