Book interviews tagged Science
CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge
- ISBN: 978 0 262 22083 5
- featured in: Essential facts every Earth citizen should knowDecember 5, 2008
The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
- ISBN: 978 0 8090 9506 3
- featured in: Living with scarcity does not mean living in poverty; it means changing how we will liveDecember 30, 2008
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
- ISBN: 978 0 19 533305 3
- featured in: The story of entomological warfare that has never been toldJanuary 16, 2009
Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 8018 8813 7
- featured in: On genesis myths, genetics myths, and the persistent dialogue between science and religion over human beginnings and identityFebruary 6, 2009
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
- ISBN: 978 0 226493121
- featured in: Much is lost in the claim that the Buddha anticipated EinsteinMarch 13, 2009
What is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 801890185
- featured in: On the central role mathematical notions have played in the history of ideasMarch 24, 2009
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 3217 2
- featured in: The story of one of the last vestiges of wilderness on EarthApril 7, 2009
Weather Matters: An American Cultural History since 1900
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1611 4
- featured in: How we perceive, manage, and market the weatherApril 10, 2009
The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
- ISBN: 978 0 801891441
- featured in: An accelerator here on Earth can perhaps answer mysteries that span the universeMay 13, 2009
Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero
- ISBN: 978 0801890635
- featured in: A background in kinesiology and neuroscience, many years training in martial arts and an interest in comic booksMay 27, 2009
Mathematics in 10 Lessons: The Grand Tour
- ISBN: 978 1591026860
- featured in: The necessity to understand mathematics is simpleJune 3, 2009
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
- ISBN: 978 1861894304
- featured in: The questions answered by the pseudo-historians are questions that a curious public frequently asksJuly 8, 2009
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009
The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth
- ISBN: 978 0691138985
- featured in: Evolution is ecology on a longer time scaleJuly 17, 2009
The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well
- ISBN: 978 0674033016
- featured in: The Snake Detection Theory
August 7, 2009
Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination
- ISBN: 978 0295988955 hb
- featured in: The case history of lovesickness as a literary-medical conceptSeptember 16, 2009
The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
- ISBN: 978 0521518420 hb
- featured in: On the state of scholarship in the American academy, and on the state of humanitySeptember 18, 2009
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
- ISBN: 978 0674033573
- featured in: Why we engage in art and fiction, and why these make us a special speciesSeptember 23, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
- ISBN: 978 0262195577
- featured in: Why, and how, Islamic science was born and grew and taken up in EuropeOctober 23, 2009
The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice
- ISBN: 978 0226870205
- featured in: Many of our histories about state and science have been built on rotten foundationsNovember 13, 2009
Science in Environmental Policymaking: The Politics of Objective Advice
- ISBN: 978 0262512961
- featured in: Scientists in three distinct settings of the policy processNovember 16, 2009
Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929
- ISBN: 978 0801447662
- featured in: Soviet Suicide, the Soviet Individual, Soviet SocietyMarch 12, 2010
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- ISBN: 978 0307272454
- featured in: About the similarities and differences between science and engineeringMarch 26, 2010
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
- ISBN: 978 0393068481
- featured in: We need to “trust our instincts” less and trust our intellect moreJuly 19, 2010
