Katherine Pandora
A review of Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour.
Daniel Stein
A review of The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science, by Naomi Oreskes.
Harry Levine III
A review of In Quest of Tomorrow's Medicines, by Jürgen Drews.
Judith Campisi
A review of A Means to an End: The Biological Basis of Aging and Death, by William R. Clark.
Trevor Pitcher
A review of Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, by Julian Lombardi.
Tim Tokaryk
A review of Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species, by Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
Richard Stucky
A review of The Emergence of Whales: Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea, edited by J. G. M. Thewissen.
Daniel Radov
A review of Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science, by Roland OmnFs.
Tim Royappa
A review of Polymer Handbook, 4th ed, edited by J. Brandrup, E. H. Immergut and E. A. Grulke.
Malcolm Sherman
A review of What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math, by Brian Butterworth.
David Wilson
A review of Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of Consciousness, by John McCrone.
Robert Root-Bernstein
A review of The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman, by Richard Feynman.
Greg Fitch
A review of The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming, by Michel Jouvet.
Thomas Isenhour
A review of On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries—from Archimedes to DNA, by Melvyn Bragg.
Bruce Hunt
A review of Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, by Iwan Rhys Morus.
Louise Ball
A review of Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease? by S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman and The Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life, by John F. Ross.
Alexander Gurshtein
A review of Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland, by Clive L. N. Ruggles.
William Kimler
A review of Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short.
Alton Brown
A review of The Deep, Hot Biosphere, by Thomas Gold.
Alan Mann
A review of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia, edited by Takeru Akazawa, Kenichi Aoki and Ofer Bar-Yosef.
Nina Baghai
A review of Untangling Ecological Complexity: The Macroscopic Perspective, by Brian A. Maurer.
Richard Strickland
A review of The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves, by Robert Kunzig.
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