Volume 86 | Number 5 | September-October 1998
Peter Bowler
A review of The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, by Simon Conway Morris
Michael LaBarbera
A review of Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People, by Steven Vogel
Paul Northam
A review of Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, by Jon Turney
A review of Why Geese Don't Get Obese (and We Do), by Eric P. Widmaier.
J. A. Rial
A review of Randomness, by Deborah J. Bennett.
Chiara Nappi
A review of Paul Dirac: The Man and His Work, Peter Goddard, ed.
Barry Cipra
A review of The Queen of Mathematics: A Historically Motivated Guide to Number Theory, by Jay R. Goldman.
Malcolm Sherman
A review of The Magical Maze: Seeing the World through Mathematical Eyes, by Ian Stewart.
C. R. Gallistel
A review of The Mind's Past, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Lee Sechrest
A review of Handbook of Personality Psychology, Robert Hogan, John Johnson and Stephen Briggs, eds.
Total Records : 17
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