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Home / SN Bookshelf / The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian RedmondA portrait of lemurs, monkeys, apes and others, with color photographs and a foreword by Jane Goodall.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008 -
This prehistoric monument still holds undiscovered clues to the past.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008 -
A leader in obstetrics and gynecology explains how to prevent and deal with miscarriage.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008 -
An intimate look at the tradition and subculture of falconry.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008 -
Home / SN Bookshelf / Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology by Geoffrey C. KabatHealth scares come and go, but they often have a tenuous scientific basis. Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist, systematically rips through cancer alerts that overrode scientific rigor in recent decades. In so doing, he dispels the dubious science underlying the scares and explains how public confusion can come about. A 1993 study, to take an example, linked breast cancer and environmental pollutants. The study connected DDT exposure to breast cancer at the very time women on New York’s Long Island had begun an activist campaign to “discover” the cause of wh...Published: Friday, September 12th, 2008 -
Home / SN Bookshelf / The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the Sky’s Most Brilliant Stars by Fred SchaafFacts and legends about the 21 brightest stars in the night sky.Published: Friday, September 12th, 2008 -
A Vanity Fair journalist exposes the ongoing battle between West Virginia activists and the company whose mountaintop mining threatens their homeland.Published: Friday, September 12th, 2008 -
Marie Winn’s tale of adventures in Central Park begins with darkness. She explores the cultural and literary associations between night and death, and the backstory of why humans are afraid of the dark. But, for her, curiosity and logic override fear — these days more crime occurs in the park during the day. So Winn sets off and running on a nighttime safari through the 800-plus acres that make up one of the world’s most fabled green spaces. Screech owls, slugs, beetles and bats are among the wonders Winn and her compatriots stalk during 11 years of forays. Winn delves into ea...Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
Home / SN Bookshelf / The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the AtlanticThe Gulf Stream, dramatized by painter Winslow Homer, has had many admirers ranging from Juan Ponce de Léon, who claims to have discovered it, to Ernest Hemingway, who fished its waters. Ulanski starts this book with a whirlwind tour. Warm waters dead-end in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, spill out around the Florida coast, barrel north toward Cape Hatteras and bounce eastward. But contrary to a widely held belief, the Gulf Stream warms Northern Europe only slightly. It has a greater impact on New England northeasters, which form when warm winds collide with polar air. Ulansk...Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
This book includes descriptions, medicinal uses and recipes for more than 150 aromatic plants, from lemongrass to dandelionPublished: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
How advances in genetics could affect health insurance, forensic testing, reproductive technology and more.Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
A children’s history of discoveries, from the smallpox vaccine to modern computers.Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
Ancient beliefs, scientific discoveries and survivor accounts of lightning strikes.Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
This user-friendly guide to climate change illustrates key concepts with plenty of graphics.Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008 -
A professor unites his two loves by exploring shared aesthetics and compositional demands.Published: Friday, August 15th, 2008
