Reviews
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- Ecosystems
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton
HarperCollins, 2008, 460 p., $28.95.
- Astronomy
Stargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy by Paul E. Kinzer
Cambridge Univ., 2008, 147 p., $19.99.
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
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California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Richard A. Minnich
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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Extreme Birds: The World’s Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds by Dominic Couzens
Firefly, 2008, 287 p., $45.
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis
Addison-Wesley, 2008, 366 p., $25.95.
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The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science by Sheilla Jones
Oxford Univ., 2008, 323 p., $24.95.
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Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry by Joel Paris
Oxford Univ., 2008, 247 p., $29.50.
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Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals by Jack P. Hailman
Harvard Univ., 2008, 257 p., $39.95.
- Math
Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed
Review by Tom Siegfried.
- Science & Society
All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan
NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.
