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Scientists' Bookshelf Monthly
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS P. MONEY
"Fungi," Nicholas P. Money says, "are a distinctive and spellbinding product of Earth's evolutionary history." In an interview with American Scientist, the mycologist and author of the recently published Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores discusses the health problems posed by mold, the explosive nature of horse manure and much more. Read the entire interview at
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SCIENTISTS' NIGHTSTAND: ALISON JOLLY
Alison Jolly, a senior visiting scientist at Sussex University, has written extensively about lemurs. When it comes to reading, however, her interests include everything from American politics to Scandinavian mythology. She is "in awe of" the prose of Adam Nicolson, the British author of many books on history, travel and the environment. Find more of Jolly's recommendations at
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OFF THE SHELF
The London Review of Books has several articles of interest: a review of One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal, by Alice Domurat Dreger (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n14/woot02_.html Slashdot has a review of iPods and iTunes: The Missing Manual, 2nd edition ( http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/29/1929225&tid=107&tid=137&tid=141&tid=6 Smithsonian has a review of Thoreau’s Walden ( http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/aug04/presence.html The “Editors’ Picks” in Archaeology (http://www.archaeology.org/0407/reviews/picks.html --------------------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING TITLES
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, October). The renowned biologist loosely adapts the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to take us backward through time to the first primordial organism.
Mind: A Brief Introduction, by John R. Searle (Oxford University Press, November). An eminent thinker examines the 12 problems of philosophy of mind, arguing that all the famous and influential theories—including dualism, materialism, physicalism, computationalism, functionalism, behaviorism, epiphenomenalism, and cognitivism—are false, because they are positions taken within a set of mistaken assumptions.
The Urban Cliff Revolution, by Douglas Larson (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, October). Five scientists discuss the evolution of human dwellings from caves to skyscrapers. With Uta Matthes and Peter E. Kelly, Larson wrote the feature article "Cliffs as Natural Refuges," published in the September-October 1999 issue: http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/15787 Deserts: The Living Drylands, by Sara Oldfield (MIT Press, September). A collection of vivid photographs and informative text on desert landscapes from around the world.
FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast, by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin (Yale University Press, September). An account of the troubled but accomplished captain who invited Darwin to join him on the Beagle.
Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, by David Livingstone Smith (St. Martin's Press, July). Smith combines philosophy, psychology and biology to argue for the importance of deception to our identity as humans.
Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (University of California Press, August). An account of the problems that have resulted from the development of large-scale organic agriculture in California.
Visit our Web site for a complete list of new titles<http://www.americanscientist.org/template/NewBooksReceived> received at our editorial offices.
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire (Plume, $15), reviewed in the July–August 2003 issue ( http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/21924 How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science, by J. Michael Bishop (Harvard University Press, $15.95), reviewed in the November–December 2003 issue ( http://www.americanscientist.org/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/28373 Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight, edited by Carol Boggs, Ward B. Watt and Paul R. Ehrlich (University of Chicago Press, $45.00), reviewed in the November–December issue ( http://www.americanscientist.org/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/28371 The Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness, by Julian Keenan and Gordon G. Gallup (Ecco Press, $13.95), reviewed in the November–December 2003 issue ( http://www.americanscientist.org/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/28377 The Origins of Life and the Universe, by Paul F. Lurquin (Columbia University Press, $27.50), reviewed in the September–October 2003 issue ( http://www.americanscientist.org/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/25822 The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon, by Brian Clegg (Carroll and Graf, $14).
Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, edited by Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman (Indiana University Press, $24.95).
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REISSUES AND UPDATES
The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature’s Creative Ability to Order the Universe, by Paul Davies (Templeton Foundation Press, $16.95). First published in 1988.
Brain Dance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution, revised and expanded edition, by Dean Falk (University Press of Florida, $19.95).
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IN THE NEXT ISSUE
Scientists' Bookshelf Monthly previews the September-October books section of American Scientist magazine, in which Robert Dorit reviews Joan Roughgarden's book on variability in sex and gender, Evolution's Rainbow; Thomas F. Malone considers James Gustave Speth's ecological wake-up call, Red Sky at Morning; Oren Solomon Harman compares three biographies of Alfred Russel Wallace; and S. S. Schweber assesses Jeremy Bernstein's Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma.
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