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Scientists’
Bookshelf
September-October,
2001
Lead Reviews
Robert
J. Richards on Victorian Sensation: The
Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges
of the Natural History of Creation
Gary
F. Marcus on Pathways to Language: From Fetus
to Adolescent
Craig J. Hogan on The Hole in the Universe:
How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
and The Book of Nothing: Vacuums,
Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
Alison
Winter on The Gender and Science Reader and
Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
Topical
Reviews
Physics
David
Goodstein on The Merely Personal:
Observations on Science and Scientists
Philip
Morrison on Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers
Peter
Pesic on Time and Chance
Mathematics
Kelle Love on In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Theodore
Porter on
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the
Twentieth Century
Biology
Carl
Anderson on Signs of Life: How Complexity
Pervades Biology
Jon Beckwith on
The Triumph of Sociobiology
Gregg Mitman on
Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis
to Alfred Kinsey
Chemistry
Anthony R. Butler
on Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest
for the Elements and Transforming
Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball
Neuroscience
Antoine Bechara on The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the
Civilized Mind
Paleontology
Dale Russell on Deep Time: Paleobiology’s Perspective
Picture Review
Enjoying Moths
Unshelved
Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City
Nanoviews
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
Parasite Rex:
Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures
Shark Attacks:
Their Causes and Avoidance
The Secret
Life of Dust
Are We Hardwired?
The Role of Genes in Human Behavior
Galápagos
Diary: A Complete Guide to the Archipelago’s Birdlife
Technology
and the Good Life?
Technical Fouls
Writing on
Water
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