Reviews
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Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly A. Joyce
Cornell Univ. Press, 2008, 198 p., $21.95.
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Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil
MIT Press, 2008, 307 p., $29.95.
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Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula by Jules G. Evens
Univ. of California, 2008, 366 p., $24.95.
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The Symmetries of Things by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel and Chaim Goodman-Strauss
A.K. Peters, 2008, 426 p., $69.
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Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
Review by Heather Benjamin.
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Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration by Jane P. Davidson
Review by Sid Perkins.
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The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond
Firefly Books, 2008, 176 p., $35.
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Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma by Anthony Johnson
Thames & Hudson, 2008, 288 p., $40.
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Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles by Bruce K. Young and Amy Zavatto
Bantam Dell Publishing, 2008, 334 p., $25.
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Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher
Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 326 p., $25.
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Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Health 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 […]
