Reviews

  1. Tech

    Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly A. Joyce

    Cornell Univ. Press, 2008, 198 p., $21.95.

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  2. Tech

    Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil

    MIT Press, 2008, 307 p., $29.95.

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  3. Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

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  4. Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula by Jules G. Evens

    Univ. of California, 2008, 366 p., $24.95.

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  5. 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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  6. Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller

    Review by Heather Benjamin.

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  7. Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration by Jane P. Davidson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  8. The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond

    Firefly Books, 2008, 176 p., $35.

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  9. Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma by Anthony Johnson

    Thames & Hudson, 2008, 288 p., $40.

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  10. Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles by Bruce K. Young and Amy Zavatto

    Bantam Dell Publishing, 2008, 334 p., $25.

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  11. Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher

    Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 326 p., $25.

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  12. 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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