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Chapman, Matthew. Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir. Picador: St. Martin's. Sept. 2001. c.352p. bibliog. ISBN 0-312-28357-1. $25. AUTOBIOG This first book by a successful screenwriter is an odd [...]

* Holmes, Hannah. The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, The Big Consequences of Little Things. Wiley. Aug. 2001. c.240p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. ISBN [...]

Collins, Paul. Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck. Picador: St. Martin's. May 2001. 272p. photogs. ISBN 0-312-26886-6. $25. HIST The eponymous John Banvard was [...]

Asma, Stephen T. Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums. Oxford Univ. Apr. 2001. c.320p. illus. index. ISBN 0-19-513050-2. $30. NAT HIST Do natural [...]

* Overbye, Dennis. Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance. Viking. Oct. 2000. c.422p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-670-89430-3. $27.95. SCI Through objective research and excellent writing, Overbye (Lonely Hearts of the [...]

* Rybczynski, Witold. One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw. Scribner. Sept. 2000. c.166p. illus. index. ISBN 0-684-86729-X. $22. TECH What a delightful book! Who [...]

Paterniti, Michael. Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain. Dial: Random. Jul. 2000. c.210p. ISBN 0-385-33300-5. $18.95. TRAV In performing his autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955, [...]

Tyson, Neil de Grasse. The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist. Doubleday. 2000. c.192p. ISBN 0-38548838-6. $23.95. SCI Tyson is the youngest-ever director of the Hayden [...]

Consolmagno, Guy. Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist. McGraw. Mar. 2000. c.256p. ISBN 0-07-135428-X. $24.95. SCI Consolmagno, a Jesuit brother for the past ten years, has spent 25 years [...]

*Nuland, Sherwin B. The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths. S. & S. Feb. 2000. c.288p. index. ISBN 0-684-85486-4. $24. MED Nuland, the surgeon and author of How [...]

Zackheim, Michele. Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl. Riverhead: Putnam. Nov. 1999. c.320p. permanent paper. ISBN 1-57322-127-9. $25.95. BIOG The personal life of Einstein, the century's most famous scientist, was [...]

March, Ray A. River in Ruin: The Story of the Carmel River. Univ. of Nebraska. Apr. 2012. c.192p, illus, bibliog. ISBN 9780803238343. $24.95. NAT HIST Journalist March (cofounder & editor, [...]

Brown, Nancy Marie. The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages. Basic Bks: Perseus. Dec. 2010. c.368p. illus. [...]

Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. Algonquin. Aug. 2010. c.208p. illus, bibliog. ISBN 978-1-56512-606-0. $19.95. NAT HIST Bailey, writer and artist, suddenly contracted a mysterious disease [...]

Klein, Stefan. Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World. Da Capo. May 2010. c.304p. tr. from German by Shelley Frisch. illus. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-306-818257. $26. SCI Artists' work is [...]

Milgrom, Melissa. Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy. Houghton Harcourt. Mar. 2010. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-618-40547-3. $25. NAT HIST Today, the once-flourishing art of taxidermy is adrift. Museums have eliminated taxidermy departments, [...]

Ellard, Colin. You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall. Doubleday. Jul. 2009. c.240p. ISBN 978-0-385-52806-1. $24.95. SCI As an [...]

* Levenson, Thomas. Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist. Houghton Harcourt. Jun. 2009. c.320p, bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-15-101278-7. $25. SCI If your ideas [...]

Hempton, Gordon & John Grossmann. One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World. Free Pr: S. & S. Mar. 2009. c.272p. index. ISBN [...]

* Fortey, Richard. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum. Knopf. Aug. 2008. c.352p, illus. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-307-26382-9. $27.50. SCI Entering a museum, especially [...]

Metavalli, Jim. Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. Da Capo. Feb. 2008. c.352p, photogs. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-7867-2008-8. $26.95. NAT HIST To place an [...]

Sims, Michael. Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination. Viking. Sept. 2007. c.295p. index. ISBN 978-0-670-06328-4. $24.95. SCI Readers who enjoyed science writer Sims's Adam's Navel and […]

Staubach, Suzanne. Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind's Relationship with Earth's Most Primal Element. Berkley: Penguin Group (USA). Nov. 2005. c.304p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 0-425-20566-5. $23.95. DEC ARTS Staubach, [...]

Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Norton. Oct. 2005. c.288p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-393-05962-6. $24.95. SCI This is not about ghosts--rather, science writer Roach (Stiff) looks to science to [...]

Free Pr: S. & S. Jan. 2004. c.384p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7432-3038-8. $26. SCI With an enthusiasm normally reserved for today's discoveries, Zimmer, a regular columnist for Natural History, brings [...]

Norton. Apr. 2003. c.224p, illus, bibliog. ISBN 0-393-05093-9. $23.95. SCI Despite the irreverent, macabre title, this is a respectful and serious examination of what happens to cadavers, past and present. […]

Walker. Nov. 2002. c.288p. illus. maps. ISBN 0-8027-1396-3. $26. SCI Why do we use gallons, feet, and dollars and cents? How were these measurements created? Why do we not use [...]

* Abraham, Carolyn. Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain. St. Martin's. Mar. 2002. c.388p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-312-28117-X. $24.95. SCI With clarity, insight, and thoroughness, Abraham, a reporter [...]

Anthes, Emily. Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts. Scientific American. Mar. 2013. 256p. index. ISBN 9780374158590. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781429949521. SCI Cloning a cat, dog, cow, or [...]

Parish, Jolyon C. The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History. Indiana Univ. (Life of the Past). 2012. 432p. illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780253000996. $75; ebk. ISBN 9780253001030. NAT HIST [...]

Freely, John. Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe. Overlook, dist. by Penguin Group (USA). 2012. c.352p, illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 9781590206072. $28.95. SCI Freely (physics, Bosphorous [...]

Bloch-Dano, Evelyne. Vegetables: A Biography. Univ. of Chicago. 2012. c.128p. tr. from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan. bibliog. ISBN 9780226059945. $20. AGRI It's a tall order to discuss ten vegetables [...]

Brooks, Rob. Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World. Univ. of New Hampshire: Univ. Pr. of New England. Mar. 2012. c.320p, bibliog. index. ISBN [...]

Grant, John. Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality. Prometheus. Aug. 2011. c.350p. bibliog, index. ISBN 9781616143992. $25. SCI Our society's unprecedented access not only to [...]

Pundyk, Grace. The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees. St. Martin's. Aug. 2010. c.384p, bibliog. ISBN 978-0-31262981-6. $27.99. NAT HIST This book (originally published in Australia [...]

Prochnik, George. In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. Doubleday. 2010. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-385-52888-7. $26. SCI Prochnik (Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and [...]

* Heinrich, Bernd. Summer World: A Season of Bounty. Ecco: HarperCollins. Apr. 2009. c.272p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-06-074217-1. $26.99. NAT HIST To his latest work, Heinrich (biology, Univ. of [...]

* Holmes, Hannah. The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself. Random. Jan. 2009. c.368p. bibliog. ISBN 97B-1-4000-6541-7. $25. SCI Science writer Holmes (Suburban Safari, The Secret Life of Dust [...]

* Roach, Mary. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Norton. Apr. 2008. c.288p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-393-06464-3. $24.95. SCI It takes one kind of skill to pack a [...]

Langton, Jerry. Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top. St. Martin's. Jun. 2007. c.208p. ISBN 978-0-312-36384-0. $21.95. NAT HIST Readers who found Robert Sullivan's […]

Stross, Randall. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. Crown: Random House. Mar. 2007. c.384p. ISBN 1-4000-4762-5 [ISBN 978-1-4000-4762-8]. $24.95. BIOG Seventy-five years after […]

* Ewing, Heather. The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution and the Foundation of the Smithsonian. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. Apr. 2007. c.448p. illus. index. ISBN 01-59691-029-1 [ISBN [...]

* Gribbin, John. The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution. Overlook, dist. by Penguin Group (USA). Apr. 2007. c.352p, illus, index. ISBN 1-58567-831-7 [...]

Norgate, Sarah. Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time. Columbia Univ. Dec. 2006. c.192p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-231-14008-8 [ISBN 978-0-231-14008-9]. $24.50. SCI In some cultures, time is determined [...]

* Jablonski, Nina G. Skin: A Natural History. Univ. of California. Oct. 2006. c.290p, illus. maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-520-24281-5 [ISBN 978-0-520-24281-4]. $24.95. SCI The most elementary anatomy or biology [...]

Blum, Deborah. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Aug. 2006. c.344p. index. ISBN 1-59420-090-4. pap. $25.95. SCI [...]

* Karpf, Anne. The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. Aug. 2006. c.416p, index. ISBN 1-58234-299-7 [ISBN 978-1-58234-299-3]. [...]

* Grossman, Elizabeth. High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins, and Human Health. Shearwater: Island. May 2006. c.336p. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-55963-554-1. $25.95. TECH Those PCs, VCRs, TVs, and cell [...]

Ball, Philip. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. Farrar. Apr. 2006. c.448p, illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-374-22979-1 [ISBN 978-0-374-22979-5]. $26. SCI Ball's (Critical Mass) work [...]