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      March Book Reviews Roundup

      Books and recommendations from Scientific American

      • By The Editors on March 1, 2016
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      A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
      By David J. Helfand. Columbia University Press, 2016

      The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
      By Christophe Galfard. Flatiron Books, 2016

      What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants
      By Stephen Harris. The University of Chicago Press, 2016

      He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter’s Quest to Know Him
      By Mimi Baird with Eve Claxton. Broadway Books, 2016

      Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology
      By James Rodger Fleming. The MIT Press, 2016

      Governing Behavior: How Nerve Cell Dictatorships & Democracies Control Everything We Do
      By Ari Berkowitz. Harvard University Press, 2016

       

      This article was originally published with the title "Recommended" in Scientific American 314, 3, (March 2016)

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