Samuel Petuchowski
A review of How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist, by Charles H. Townes.
Evangeline Wheeler
A review of Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See, by Donald D. Hoffman.
Robert Proctor
A review of Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins, by Stephanie Moser.
Malcolm Sherman
A review of The New Know-Nothings: The Political Foes of the Scientific Study of Human Nature, by Morton Hunt.
III, Woodruff Sullivan
A review of Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia, by Gregory Benford.
Alexander Gurshtein
A review of Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective, edited by Kristie Macrakis and Dieter Hoffman.
Antonio Puente
A review of Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope, and Healing, by William J. Winslade.
Kirk Johnson
A review of Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and Other Animals of the Mesozoic Era, by John A. Long.
Ursula Goodenough
A review of Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, by Stephen Jay Gould.
Alan Packer
A review of Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes Are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm, by Edward J. Steele, Robyn A. Lindley and Robert V. Blanden.
Peter Bowler
A review of Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, by Robert T. Pennock.
Tim Tokaryk
A review of The Pattern of Evolution, by Niles Eldredge and Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot, by Philip H. Gosse.
Mark Drapeau
A review of Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution, by Lynn Margulis.
R. Igor Gamow
A review of High Life: A History of High Altitude Physiology and Medicine, by John B. West.
James Botsford
A review of Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space, by Michael Ray Taylor.
Chris Impey
A review of Strangers in the Night: A Brief History of Life on Other Worlds, by David Fisher and Marshall Fisher, Worlds Without End: The Exploration of Planets Known and Unknown, by John Lewis and Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate, by Steven Dick.
Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
A review of Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy, by Eric Caplan.
Daniel Siegel
A review of The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell, by P. M. Harman.
Valerie Chase
A review of Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans, by Lee Dugatkin.
Tom Paulson
A review of Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time, by Peter D. Ward.
Robert Proctor
A review of Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, by Richard Dawkins.
Alan Packer
A review of The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough.
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