May Book Reviews Roundup
Books and recommendations from Scientific American
By The Editors
Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse
By Caitlin O’Connell. The University of Chicago Press, 2015
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
By Cynthia Barnett. Crown Publishers, 2015
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
By Richard C. Francis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
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Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
By Stephen W. Kress and Derrick Z. Jackson. Yale University Press, 2015
Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival On the Roof of the World
By Jonathan Mingle. St. Martin’s Press, 2015
The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
By Susan Wise Bauer. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
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