Volume 93 | Number 1 | January-February 2005
Yaron Ezrahi
Bruno Latour's Politics of Nature critiques modern conceptions of nature and presents a metaphysics that is intended to "liberate us from the fiction that nature is nonnegotiable"
Lawrence Straus
George Frison has written a fascinating and instructive guide to the hunting of mega-game by Paleoindians of the High Plains and Rockies
David Schneider, Roger Harris, Amos Esty
The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman, Origins, Ultimate Robot and more...
Rachel Ankeny
Karen Rader has written a provocative history of the Jackson Lab and JAX mice
Kate Scholberg
Don Lincoln takes readers on a rollicking tour of the world of particle physics
Frank Ruskey
A. W. F. Edwards's Cogwheels of the Mind offers a personal view of John Venn and his diagrams
Paul Farber
How do the two new biographies of Audubon by Richard Rhodes and William Souder compare with Alice Ford's classic portrayal?
Asif Ghazanfar
In What Animals Want, veterinarian Larry Carbone draws on his experience working in animal research laboratories to show how animal-welfare policies are shaped
Arthur Caplan
Three new books express outrage over the venality and ethical shenanigans of the pharmaceutical industry, but the data needed to rein in its excesses is lacking
David Weatherall
Horace Freeland Judson's The Great Betrayal highlights the complexities of fraud in science
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