March Book Reviews Roundup
Books and recommendations from Scientific American
By The Editors
One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the Evolution of Complex Life
By John Archibald. Oxford University Press, 2015
ASAP Science: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena
By Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown. Scribner, 2015
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
By John Hemming. Thames and Hudson, 2015
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
By Les Standiford. Ecco, 2015
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures
By William deBuys. Little, Brown and Company, 2015
Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story
By Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota and Franco Guidice. Harvard University Press, 2015
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