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Reviews of Books Alphabetically by Title [A-D] [E-G] [H-L] [M-O] [P-S] [T-Z] Adaptive Governance and Climate Change by Ronald D. Brunner and Amanda H. LynchAfter Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning by Ian Wilmut and Roger HighfieldThe Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray KurzweilAlmost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee StoneAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Shelly TurkleAlpha and Omega: The Quest for the Beginning and End of the Universe by Charles SeifeThe Anatomy of Evil by Michael H. Stone, M.D.The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard DawkinsAnticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D.Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God by Amos Nur with Dawn BurgessThe Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body Revealed by Alexander Tsiaras*Archives of the Universe: A Treasury of Astronomy's Historic Works of Discovery edited and with Introduction by Marcia Bartusiak*Are We Unique? A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind by James TrefilAstro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science by M. G. LordBeating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Maryn McKennaBehemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. FreemanBeing Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn SchulzBeyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future by Jeffrey BennettBillions and Billions by Carl SaganThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven PinkerBlood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly TuckerBodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School by Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch, Foreword by Dr. Bill BassBones Rock: Everything You Kneed to Know to be a Paleontologist by Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan*Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary RoachThe Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics, and Physics in Uncertain Times by Max Born, with the original introduction by Werner Heisenberg, the original foreword by Bertrand Russell, and new preface by Diana Buchwald and Kip ThorneThe Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy CampbellA Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan V. QvistThe Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie AngierCaptured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe by Joel AchenbachCarl Sagan: A Life by Keay DavidsonCarl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William PoundstoneCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard WranghamCell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell by Cynthia FoxCensoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming by Mark BowenCentauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration by Paul GilsterThe Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate by William K. StevensChasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David GrinspoonCivilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Extraterrestrial Intelligence by George BasallaClimate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future by John D. CoxThe Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-PinneyA Contract with the Earth by Newt Gingrich and Terry L. MapleCool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn LomborgThe Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future by Bob ReissCopies in Seconds: Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine by David OwenA Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. SternbergThe Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E. O. WilsonThe Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets by Alan BossCruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain by Kathleen TaylorThe Curvature of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, and Gravitation by Harald Fritsch, translated from the German by Karin HeuschDark Matter and the Dinosaurs The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa RandallDarwin and the Barnacle: Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough by Rebecca StottDarwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory by James T. CostaThe Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane RavitchDeep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics by Bruce A. Schumm Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry by Scott HulerDenialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael SpecterDesigning Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution by Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, and Joel Cutcher-GershenfeldThe Design of Future Things by Don NormanThe Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer by Doron SwadeA Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert LaughlinDistant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System by Bruce G. DormineyDNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson*Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael PaternitiThe Dynamic Great Lakes by Barbara SpringE=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David BodanisEarth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future by David GrinspoonThe Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy StewartThe Earth Policy Reader by Lester R. BrownEdison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death by Mark EssigEinstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness by John S. RigdenThe Einstein Almanac by Alice CalapriceEinstein's Universe: The Layperson's Guide by Nigel CalderThe End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution by Nancy Thorndike GreenspanThe End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul RobertsEndless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century by G. Pascal Zachary Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend by Barbara OakleyThe Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization by Geerat VermeijThe Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael RuseEvolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion by Barbara J. KingExtinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago by Douglas H. ErwinFarewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim BaggottThe Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, & Everyone In-Between by Abigail MarshFeynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life by Leonard MlodinowField Notes From A Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth KolbertFirst Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc KaufmanA Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha WeinbergFitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast by John and Mary GribbinFleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith by Carlene CrossFlesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney A. BrooksFlight 427: Anatomy of an Air Disaster by Gerry ByrneThe Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps by Peter D. WardForecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley by Stephan FarisA Force of Nature: the Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford by Richard ReevesThe 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard PanekFrom Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom by Brian CathcartFutures: 50 Years in Space, The Challenge of the Stars by David A. Hardy and Sir Patrick MooreThe Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science by Theodore Roszak (foreword by Jane Goodall)The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeGenome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt RidleyThe Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard MlodinowThe Grand Tour: A Travelers Guide to the Solar System by Ron Miller and William K. HartmannGraphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World by Les Johnson and Joseph E. Meany, Ph.D.Gravity: How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives by Brian CleggProbably Slept Here: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century by Richard P. Brennan Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex BellosHerding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work by Kat ArneyHitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact by John CornwellThe Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything by K. C. ColeHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerHow to Build a Time Machine by Paul DaviesHuman Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul R. EhrlichThe Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans by Chris BeardHurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth by Dr. Bob Sheets and Jack WilliamsImagining Space: Achievements * Predictions * Possibilities 1950-2050 by Roger D. Launius and Howard McCurdy with foreword by Ray BradburyThe Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies by Colin TudgeThe Infinite Journey: Eyewitness Accounts of NASA and the Age of Space by William E. Burrows with foreword by Walter CronkiteInfinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets Beyond our Sun by Ray Villard and Lynette R. Cook, illustratorInside the Hurricane: Face to Face with Nature's Deadliest Storms by Pete DaviesAn Intimate Look at the Night Sky by Chet RaymoIs Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System by David A. WeintraubIt's a Bunny-Eat-Bunny World: A Writer's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Today's Competitive Children's Book Market by Olga LitowinskyJacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Sense of Smell by Lyall WatsonThe Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table by Richard MorrisA Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw by David WolmanLetters to a Young Mathematician by Ian StewartThe Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World by Peter D. Ward and Donald BrownleeLife As We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life by Peter WardLife's Matrix: A Biography of Water by Philip BallThe Little Book of String Theory by Steven S. GubserThe Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian FaganLiving with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors by Daniel J. WilsonThe Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian FaganMan the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution by Donna L. Hart and Robert W. SussmanThe Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made: The Life and Times of A. C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas by Bruce WatsonManaging Martians by Donna Shirley with Danelle MortonMapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World by Oliver MortonMass: The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields by Jim BaggottMassive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare by Daniel CharlesThe Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather PringleMath and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci by Bulent Atalay*A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe by Gino SegreThe Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein, with a new introduction by Brian GreenThe Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World by Ken AlderThe Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter WardMendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul StrathernMeteorites, Ice, and Antarctica: A Personal Account by William CassidyMillions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers by Gilbert WaldbauerMind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans MoravecMind Matters: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence by James P. HoganMission Jupiter: The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo Spacecraft by Daniel FischerModern Classical Physics by Kip S. Thorne and Roger D. BlandfordThe Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric LaxMonkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial by Marvin Olasky and John PerryA Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics by David StippA Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves by Walter AlvarezThe Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Flight Investigation by Bill AdairNagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan SouthardNature Out of Place: Biological Invasions in the Global Age by Jason van Driesche and Roy van DriescheNear-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. YeomansThe Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalries and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting by Tom StandageThe New Quotable Einstein , edited by Alice Calaprice with a foreword by Freeman DysonThe Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century edited by John BrockmanNot Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter WoitOcean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas by Colin WoodardOn the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy edited with comments by Stephen HawkingOnce Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe by Martin BojowaldOnly a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. MillerOrigins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith*Other Worlds: the Search for Life in the Universe by Michael D. LemonickOur Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning; How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century On Earth and Beyond by Martin ReesOur Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de WaalOut of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David GoodsteinOut of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere by Peter WardPacking for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary RoachPandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by Robin Marantz HenigThe Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe by Chet RaymoPerfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited by Michelle FeynmanPlanet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems by Ken CroswellThe Planets by Dava SobelPluto Confidential: An Insider Account of the Ongoing Battles Over the Status of Pluto by Laurence A. Marschall and Stephen P. MaranThe Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse TysonPolio: An American Story by David M. OshinskyThe Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segre and Bettina HoerlinThe Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science by Robert P. CreaseProbable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform our Lives in the Next Twenty Years by Marvin Cetron and Owen DaviesProofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles SeifeQuakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake by Katheryn MilesThe Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality by Paul HalpernThe Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments by Jim BaggottThe Radiation Sonnets: For My Love, in Sickness and in Health by Jane YolenRain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia BarnettRare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward and Donald BrownleeThe Real Mars by Michael Hanlon*Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory StockThe Republican War on Science by Chris MooneyRiddled With Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are by Marlene ZukRising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them by Brad Spellberg, M.D.Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind by Hans MoravecRocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of the World Beyond by Marina Benjamin Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First men on the Moon by Craig NelsonScience, Evolution, and Creationism by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Institute of MedicineScience, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel GreenbergThe Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works by Roger HighfieldThe Scientist as Rebel by Freeman DysonThe Search for Life on Other Planets by Bruce JakoskyThe Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think by George G. SzpiroSeeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth From Interplanetary Peril by Timothy FerrisThe Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William A. Stixrud Ph.D. and Ned JohnsonSensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist by Eugene H. KaplanSettled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand ShetterlySharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life Seth ShostakSide Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial by Alison BassSignificant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians by Ian StewartThe Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark BuchananSpecial Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art FriedmanSplendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey KlugerSpook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary RoachSputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul DicksonStargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope by Fred WatsonState of the World 2003 by the Worldwatch InstituteStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary RoachStorm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris MooneyStrange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George PendleStrange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time by Tom SiegfriedStuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark MiodownikSudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species by Jeffrey H. SchwartzSynaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDouxSwearing is Good for You by Emma ByrneSync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven StrogatzTake Joy: A Book for Writers by Jane YolenThe Taking of K-129: How the CIA used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh DeanTested: An American School Struggles to Make the Grade by Linda PerlsteinThis is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. LevitinTrick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, M.D.The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee SmolinTrue Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen by Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki DaitschThe Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth Century Chess Playing Machine by Tom StandageTurning Points: How Critical Events Have Driven Human Evolution, Life, and Development by Kostas KampourakisTuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet ConantThe Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen HawkingA User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attenttion, and the Four Theaters of the Brain by John J. Ratey, M.D.The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith WadmanThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan, edited by Ann DruyanThe View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen AbramsThe Violinist's Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam KeanVisions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian StewartWalking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian by Chet RaymoWater: The Fate of our Most Precious Resource by Marq de VilliersThe Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim FlanneryThe Whale Book: Whales and Other Marine Animals as Described by Adriaen Coenen in 1585 What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by George Poinar, Jr., and Roberta PoinarWhat Does a Martian Look Like? The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen and Ian StewartWhat Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel, Further Adventures in Cooking Science by Robert L. Wolke with 35 recipes by Marlene ParrishWhat It's Like to be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience by Gregory BernsWhat the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery GilbertWhat Your Doctor Hasn't Told You and the Health Store Clerk Doesn't Know: The Truth About Alternative Treatments and What Works by Edward L. Schneider, M.D., and Leigh Ann HirschmanWhere Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven JohnsonWhere We Stand: A Surprising Look at the Real State of Our Planet by Seymour GarteWhy Evolution is True by Jerry A. CoyneWhy We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love by Helen FisherWind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land by Jan DeBlieuWired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark PagelThe World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. LevitinA World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Goedel and Einstein by Palle YourgrauThe Worlds of Galileo: The Inside Story of NASA's Mission to Jupiter by Michael Hanlon with Foreword by Arthur C. ClarkeThe World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography by Andrew Taylor*Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
