Reviews
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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 […]
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the Sky’s Most Brilliant Stars by Fred Schaaf
John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2008, 281 p., $19.95.
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Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 321 p., $25.
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Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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The Complete Herb Book
Jekka McVicar, Firefly Books, 2008, 304 p., $29.95.
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DNA: Promise and Peril
Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 339 p., $39.95.
