Reviews
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The Most Human Human by Brian Christian
The Turing test competition, an annual search for the most “human” computer, is the thread in this tour through the makings of human intelligence. Doubleday, 2011, 303 p., $27.95.
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Book Review: Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux
Review by Ron Cowen.
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
Buy this book This absorbing tale, set in the 17th century, recounts how Isaac Newton and the founders of the Royal Society described the order of the universe. Harper, 2011, 378 p., $27.99.
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How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old by Marc E. Agronin
Buy this book A young doctor reflects on lessons learned about life and medicine as a psychiatrist in a Miami nursing home. Da Capo, 2011, 320 p., $25.
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Life in a Shell: A Physiologist’s View of a Turtle by Donald C. Jackson
Buy this book A physiologist shows how shells have helped turtles survive virtually unchanged for 220 million years. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 178 p., $29.95.
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What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? by Joshua S. Bloom
Buy this book For readers willing to dive into (or skim past) a bit of math, this book surveys the latest research on these mysterious cosmic explosions. Princeton Univ. Press, 2011, 256 p., $27.95.
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Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide (The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist) by Susan Lumpkin and John Seidensticker
Buy this book Learn little-known facts about the familiar animals, whose 90 species include several of the world’s most endangered. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2011, 235 p., $24.95.
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The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease by Michael Bliss
A medical historian examines how society came to put faith in science to cure disease. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 104 p., $18.
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The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman
The story of human evolution is encapsulated in the myriad changes to the head’s anatomy, traced here throughout the hominid fossil record. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 756 p., $39.95.
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