December 1, 2014
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Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmDecember 2014 Book Reviews Roundup
Books and recommendations from Scientific American
By The Editors
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
By Bill Nye. St. Martin’s Press, 2014
Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution
By Eugene E. Harris. Oxford University Press, 2014
Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
By Chad Orzel. Basic Books, 2014
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More
By Matt Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014
The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World’s Leading Neuroscientists
By Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman. Princeton University Press, 2014
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