Reviews
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- Health & Medicine
Internal Time
Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg.
- Plants
The Man Who Planted Trees
Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins
- Health & Medicine
Why Calories Count
From Science to Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.
- Animals
Mr. Hornaday’s War
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World by Stefan Bechtel.
- Health & Medicine
Experiment Eleven
Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle
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The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall
Superbly simple illustrations by Patricia J. Wynne complement this road map to the brain’s evolution. Yale Univ., 2012, 368 p., $29.95
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Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease by Rafe Sagarin
Octopus defenses, marmot lie detection, salmon suicide and other natural phenomena provide inspiration for ways to improve national security. Basic Books, 2012, 320 p., $26.99
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Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present by Nick Lomb
This illustrated history recounts the scientific contributions and adventures of the 18th and 19th century astronomers who traveled the world to observe Venus passing in front of the sun. The Experiment, 2011, 228 p., $24.95
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Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist by Maddalena Bearzi
A marine biologist chronicles her life in the field and offers an insider’s view of how scientists study marine mammals in the wild. Univ. of Chicago, 2012, 216 p., $26
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Evolution in a Toxic World by Emily Monosson
A toxicologist traces how life evolved to deal with toxic substances and how this plays into chemical exposures today. Island Press, 2012, 232 p., $35
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BOOK REVIEW: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
Review by Sid Perkins.
