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Ecology of Transgenic Crops
Michelle Marvier

March-April 2001

The Growing Threat of Biological Weapons
Steven M. Block
January-February 2001

Lead in the Inner Cities
Howard W. Mielke

January-February 1999

The Critical Mass
Jonothan Logan
January-February 1996

Articles: Abstracts

Science and Uncertainty in Habitat Conservation Planning
Laura Watchman, Martha Groom and John D. Perrine

July-August 2001

Protecting Ourselves from Food
Paul W. Sherman and Samuel M. Flaxman

March-April 2001

In Defense of Robert Andrews Millikan
David Goodstein

January-February 2001

Scientific Publication Trends and the Developing World
Antonio Galvez, Mercedes Maqueda, Manuel Mart nez-Bueno and Eva Valdivia
November-December 2000

The Case of Agent Gorbachev
Kristie Macrakis
November-December 2000

Reengineering the Electric Grid
Thomas J. Overbye

Impacts of Industrial Animal Production on Rivers and Estuaries
Michael A. Mallin
January-February 2000

The Women Scientists of Bologna
Maria Cieslak-Golonka and Bruno Morten
January-February 2000

The New Science of Finance
Don M. Chance and Pamela P. Peterson

May-June 1999

Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Research: Science and Ethics
Shirley J. Wright
July-August 1999

Wrangling Over Refuge
Thomas R. Hargrove

January-February 1999

Is Combustion of Plastics Desirable?
Bruce Piasecki, David Raiey and Kevin Fletcher
July-August 1998

Young Scientists’ Bookshelf: Student Reviews
November-December 1998

Sampling and Census 2000: The Concepts
Tommy Wright

May-June 1998

Is Beauty a Sign of Truth in Scientific Theories?
James W. McAllister

March-April 1998

Conduct, Misconduct and the Structure of Science
James Woodward and David Goodstein
September-October 1996

Biological Invasions as Global Environmental Change
Peter M. Vitousek, Carla M. D'Antonio, Lloyd L. Loope and Randy Westbrooks
July-August 1996

How a Scientific Discovery Is Made: A Case History
Gerald Holton, Hasok Chang and Edward Jurkowitz
May-June 1996

Career Patterns of Women and Men in the Sciences
Gerhard Sonnert and Gerald Holton
January-February 1996

Book Reviews

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production by Vaclav Smil.
Reviewed by Philip and Phylis Morrison

July-August 2001

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield.
Reviewed by Anthony S. Travis

July-August 2001

The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron’s Daughter by Benjamic Woolley.
Reviewed by Thomas A. Trainor

July-August 2001

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 edited by David Quammen and The Best American Science Writing 2000 edited by James Gleick.
Combined review by William J. Cannon
July-August 2001

Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé edited by Andy Masaki Bellows and Marina McDougall with Brigitta Berg. Translations by Jeanine Herman.
Reviewed by William J. Cannon

May-June 2001

Shaping Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945-1975 by Toby Appel.
Reviewed by Robert E. Kohler.

May-June 2001

Creative Collaboration by Vera John-Steiner.
Reviewed by Arthur I. Miller

May-June 2001

The Works of Robert Boyle edited by Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis.
Reviewed by Mordechai Feingold

March-April 2001

Pandora’s Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods by Alan McHughen.
Reviewed by Peter A. Follett

January-February 2001

Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond by Ullica Segerstråle.
Reviewed by John Dupre

January-February 2001

The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science by Elga Wasserman.
Reviewed by Mary Catherine Bateson
January-February 2001

Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America by Margaret A. M. Murray.
Reviewed by Evelyn Sander

January-February 2001

Beating the Heat: Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming by John J. Berger and The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling.
Combined review by John Firor

November-December 2000

Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge Through Cultures and Time by Scott L. Montgomery.
Reviewed by Monica H. Green

November-December 2000

Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science by Peter Pesic.
Reviewedv by S.S. Schweber
November-December 2000

Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry by Frank Close and Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror by Gordon Fraser.
Combined review by Peter Pesic
November-December 2000

Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis and Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis
Reviewed by William Dietrich
May-June 2000

XENO: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans
Reviewed by Harold J. Vanderpool
May-June 2000

Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misue of Science in the Law
Reviewed by Robert D. Athey, Jr.

January-February 2000

Carl Sagan: A a Life and Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos  
Reviewed by Chris Impey

January-February 2000

The Real Antismoking Nazis
Reviewed by Peter Fritzsche

November-December 1999

Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease? and The Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life  
Combined Review by Louise M. Ball

September-October 1999

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life  
Reviewed by Ursula Goodenough

May-June 1999

Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism  
Reviewed by Peter J. Bowler

May-June 1999

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder  
Reviewed by Robert N. Proctor

May-June 1999

Two Very Differing Views on God and Science
John Polkinghorne and Chet Raymo

November-December 1998

A Man Who Knows the Camel's Nose Inside Out
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

November-December 1998

This is Biology: The Science of the Living World
Ernst Mayr
March-April 1998

Boundaries and Barriers: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge
John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist, eds.

January-February 1998

Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
May-June 1997

But Is It True? A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues
September-October 1996

The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
September-October 1996

Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives
September-October 1996

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
May-June 1996

Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling
May-June 1996

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
January-February 1995

Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative
January-February 1995

A View to a Death in the Morning
May-June 1995

Science Observer

Night Lights
Aili Peterson

January-February 2001

Giving a Damn About Traffic
Michael Szpir
May-June 2000

Splendor on the Grass

Michelle Hoffman
May-June 2000

Solar Windjamming
David Scheinder
January-February 2000

Archimedes Unbound
William Cannon

July-August 1999

El Niņo and Unemployment
David Schoonmaker
July-August 1997

Building Credibility in Public Studies
John E. Till
September-October 1995

The Role of Intelligence in Modern Society
Earl Hunt
July-August 1995

A Lack of Sound Communication
Laura Jean Penvenne
May-June 1995

Plutonium's Bad Rep
David Schoonmaker
May-June 1995

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