February Book Reviews Roundup

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
By Yuval Noah Harari. Harper, 2015

Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
By Liz Carlisle. Gotham Books, 2015

Aids: Between Science and Politics
By Peter Piot. Columbia University Press, 2015


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Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
By Naomi S. Baron. Oxford University Press, 2015

p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code
By Sue Armstrong. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015

The Fascinating World of Graph Theory
By Arthur Benjamin, Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang. Princeton University Press, 2015

Scientific American Magazine Vol 312 Issue 2This article was published with the title “February Book Reviews Roundup” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 312 No. 2 ()
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