Book Reviews
- Amir D. Aczel: God's Equation
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- Amir D. Aczel: The Mystery of the Aleph
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
- John D. Anderson Jr: Inventing Flight
The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
- Kenneth J. Carpenter: Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
- Raymond Corbey, Wil Roebroeks: Studying Human Origins*
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
- Richard Corfield: Lives of the Planets
A Natural History of the Solar System
- Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita: Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia
From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
- Adrian Desmond, James Moore: Darwin*
- a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
- Steven J. Dick: Life on Other Worlds
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
- Stephen Jay Gould: Ontogeny and Phylogeny**
- the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution
- Stephen Jay Gould: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
- Hugh Gusterson: Nuclear Rites
A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
- George F. Hourani: Arab Seafaring
In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
- Ian Johnston: Measured Tones*
The Interplay of Physics and Music
- John Keay: The Great Arc
The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
- Edward J. Larson: Trial and Error
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
- Roger Lewin: Bones of Contention*
Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
- Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine: The Evolutionary Synthesis
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
- Roy McCleod, Philip F. Rehbock: Darwin's Laboratory
Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
- Benno Müller-Hill: Murderous Science
Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945
- Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill: What is Life? The Next Fifty Years
Speculations on the Future of Biology
- Joseph Needham: The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3*
- nautical technology and the compass
- Ronald L. Numbers: Darwinism Comes to America
- creationism and religion in the United States
- Patrick O'Brian: Joseph Banks*
- a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
- Abraham Pais, et al.: Paul Dirac
The Man and His Work
- Clara Pinto-Correia: The Ovary of Eve*
Egg and Sperm and Preformation
- David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo*
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- Paul Rabinow: Making PCR
A Story of Biotechnology
- Steven Shapin: The Scientific Revolution*
- science in 17th century Europe
- Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner*
A Life in Physics
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