Volume 100 | Number 6 | November-December 2012
Daniel Simberloff
A review of Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success, by Andrew Balmford. Balmford presents seven conservation efforts that are working, says Simberloff, primarily because they begin by trying to understand the human actors involved
Michael Bérubé
A review of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, by Jonathan Gottschall. Evolutionary biology and neuroscience may have lessons for the study of literature, says Bérubé, but thus far the concept is not entirely convincing
Peter Pesic
A review of Discord: The Story of Noise, by Mike Goldsmith. This social history of noise tells the story of the phenomenon from the Big Bang to the present
William A. Searcy
A review of Calls Beyond Our Hearing: Unlocking the Secrets of Animal Voices, by Holly Menino. Menino’s recounting of various research on animal vocalizations is a pleasure to read, but the scientific explanations don’t all pass muster, says Searcy
Jacqueline Olds
A review of Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman. Drawing on research from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project, the authors provide suggestions for how to thrive as “networked individuals”
Katie L. Burke
A brief review of Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, by David K. Randall
Anna Lena Phillips
A brief review of Beautiful Corn: America’s Original Grain from Seed to Plate, by Anthony Boutard
Anna Lena Phillips
Our review of reviews published during the first 100 years of the Scientists’ Bookshelf continues, with content ranging from landscape architecture to clouds to alternative energy
Mary S. Calderone
A 1969 review of Sex Is for Real (Human Sexuality & Sexual Responsibility), by W. Dalrymple
Gerald H. Kramer
A 1969 review of Mathematical Models of Arms Control & Disarmament: Application of Mathematical Structures to Politics, by T. L. Saaty
Total Records : 19