Reviews

  1. Physics

    The Jinn from Hyperspace and Other Scriblings — Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

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  2. Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

    Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

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  3. Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

    Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

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  4. Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

    Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

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  5. Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

    Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

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  6. Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble

    Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble

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  7. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

    The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

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  8. Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.

    Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.

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  9. Science & Society

    Book Review: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan

    Review by Janet Raloff.

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  10. Ecosystems

    Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton

    HarperCollins, 2008, 460 p., $28.95.

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  11. Astronomy

    Stargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy by Paul E. Kinzer

    Cambridge Univ., 2008, 147 p., $19.99.

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  12. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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