Archived Reviews, Columns, and Essays
2008

Side Effects by Alison Bass

Worried Sick by Nortin M. Hadler

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

Column: In praise of science books by Phillip Manning

Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos

The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman

What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel

2007

Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, The Space Race Begins by Michael D'Antonio

The Third Domain: The Untold Story of Archea and the Future of Biotechnology by Tim Friend

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World by Phillip F. Schewe

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

Dreaming Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendental Software by Scott Rosenberg

Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

2006

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, by Francis Collins

Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground, by Eric T. Freyfogle

Crick and Darwin Biographies, by Matt Ridley and David Quammen

Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea by Trevor Norton

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

Essay: Books make science popular by Phillip Manning

Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics by Jennifer Ouellette

2005

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005 by Jonathan Weiner,ed.

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal

Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope by Fred Watson

Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker

Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick

The ProteusEffect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine by AnnB. Parson

Kindness ina Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism by Nigel Barber

Mendelin the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods by Nina Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown

Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy by David Lindley

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins

Human Nature: A Blueprint for Managing the Earth -- by People, for People by James Trefil

2004

Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition by Steve Olson

Adam's Curse: A Future without Men by Brian Sykes

Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens by Kitty Ferguson

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World byPaul Roberts.

A Shortcut Through Time: The Path To the Quantum Computer by George Johnson.

His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine by Jonathan Weiner

The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary Marcus.

Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages by Richard E. Rubenstein.

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck

Naturevia Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley.

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science by Amir Aczel.

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler.

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg.

The Big Splator How Our Moon Came to Be by Dana Mackenzie.

Prometheansin the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.

DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson(with Andrew Berry).

The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig.

Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah Blum.

1994-2003

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker.

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, by Jenny Uglow.

Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant.

Terrors and Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II by Tom Shachtman.

Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson.

Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens by Richard Panek.

The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis by Lucy Jago.

Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes.

The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer by Doron Swade

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks

The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada

The Forgetting: Alzheimer's -- Portrait of an Epidemic by David Shenk

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer by Scott McCartney

Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow

Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease by Rudolph E. Tanzi and Ann B. Parson

Stardust: Supernovae and Life -- The Cosmic Connection by John Gribben with Mary Gribben

A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story by William Souder

The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection by Deborah Rudacille, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe by John Gribbin

The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor,and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age by Edmund Blair Bolles

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold by Tom Shachtman

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner

Cradle of Life by J. William Schopf

The Restless Sea by Robert Kunzig

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey

Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina

The Ascent of Science by Brian Silver

Connected Knowledge: Science, Philosophy,and Education by Alan Cromer

The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s)Report by Timothy Ferris

Our Stolen Future by Theo Colburn,Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers

Darwin's Orchestra by Michael Sims

And the Waters Turned to Blood by Rodney Barker

The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods by David Harris

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals,Timeless Worlds by Diane Ackerman

The Beak of the Finch: A Story ofEvolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

And No Birds Sing: The Story of an Ecological Disaster in a Tropical Paradise by Mark Jaffe

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