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The NASW bookstore sells books, music, video, software, and other merchandise via Amazon.com. Every purchase helps support NASW programs and services. Books featured below were written by NASW members or reviewed in ScienceWriters magazine.

  • Author:
    Jennifer Freeman
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins
    Category:

    Science 101: Ecology

    An engaging, illustrated guide for non-specialists of all ages. Science 101: Ecology invites readers to explore ecology and environmental topics from nutrient cycles to disease ecology, from carbon basics to environmental ethics. Freeman helps readers understand how Ecology — unravelling the mysteries of the Earth's intricate and interconnected processes — can help chart a sustainable course for humans and other life on Earth.

  • Author:
    Suzanne Loebl
    Publisher:
    ASJA/ iUniverse
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2007
    Category:

    The Mother's Group: Of Love, Loss, and AIDS

    Loebl, a Brooklyn, N.Y., freelance, writes about AIDS not only as a science writer but as a mother who lost a son to the disease. She says that in 1983 many parents turned their backs on their children with AIDS, while a few rallied to their side. When the virus infected Loebl's son, David, she jointed a support group that came to be known as the Mothers' Group. Her book chronicles the lives of the members who fiercely and tenderly stood by their children.

  • Author:
    Elisa Zied with Ruth Winter
    Publisher:
    Wiley
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2007
    Category:

    Feed Your Family Right: How to Make Smart Food and Fitness Choices for a Healthy Lifestyle

    Zied is a registered dietitian, a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, and the co-author (with Winter) of So What Can I Eat?! Feed Your Family Right contains nutritional guidelines and recipes designed to make family meals simple, healthy, and delicious. It shows how to make a nutrition plan for each member of the family, set realistic goals, and achieve, and maintain a healthy weight.

  • Author:
    Ann Parker
    Publisher:
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2007
    Category:

    Iron Ties

    Parker's book is the sequel to her first historical mystery, Silver Lies. She says she originally became interested in Leadville, Colo. in the late 1990s when she first learned her paternal grandmother had been raised there — something she learned about long after her grandmother's death.

  • Author:
    Robert L. Koenig
    Publisher:
    PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2007
    Category:

    The Fourth Horseman: One Man's Secret Mission to Wage the Great War in America

    The Fourth Horseman tells the story of the 20th century's first foray into biological warfare, a World War I German Army sabotage campaign that featured a "germ factory" in the basement of a cottage in Washington, D.C. The book's main character is a Virginia-born doctor and German spy, Anton Dilger, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and Johns Hopkins University, and was the descendant of a great German physiologist.

  • Author:
    Louiza Patsis
    Publisher:
    AuthorHouse
    Category:

    Pocket Guide to Fitness: What You Need to Know to Start Working Out Effectively

    A well-written, easy-to-understand, powerful source for the beginning, intermediate or advanced fitness enthusiast. Louiza Patsis, M.S., asserts that fitness is more than the physical body exerting itself in a workout — it is also an individual's entire spiritual and mental being that is a determining factor in learning how the entire mind, body and spirit can work together for a fitness transformation.

  • Author:
    Sallie J. Ortiz, Marye Hefty, and Sara Nelson
    Publisher:
    Pearson Longman
    Category:

    Sentence Diagramming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Grammar Through Diagramming

    Sentence Diagramming is a grammar workbook aimed at reviving the use of sentence diagramming to teach grammar and punctuation in the classroom. This supplemental text book provides a structured and step-by-step approach to learning about language — providing a framework for remembering the rules and concepts that help students to rely on their own analytical abilities as writers and editors.

  • Author:
    Robert Henson
    Publisher:
    Rough Guides
    Reviewed in:
    Winter 2006-07
    Category:

    The Rough Guide to Climate Change

    Henson, a writer for The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), has written a book about a subject we almost always mention in conversation — the weather. Henson maintains weather has become a polarized subject and yet, he maintains, the basic science behind global climate change is rock-solid and accepted by virtually all parties.

  • Author:
    William Sweet
    Publisher:
    Columbia University Press
    Reviewed in:
    Winter 2006-07
    Category:

    Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy

    Sweet is senior news editor of IEEE Spectrum. From the mid-70s through the 80s, he worked as a journalist specializing in nuclear arms control and all related matters. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Polar icecaps are melting, ocean levels are rising, greenhouse gas emissions are accelerating — and, says Sweet, the villain of catastrophic climate change is coal, whose sooty carbon emissions make it the single worst energy source."

  • Author:
    Tom Hager
    Publisher:
    Harmony Books
    Reviewed in:
    Winter 2006-07
    Category:

    The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

    Hager, an Oregon freelance, says he wrote the book to help readers understand modern medicine. Kirkus Reviews wrote that The Demon Under The Microscope described "the fascinating story of the world's first antibiotic ... A rousing, valuable contribution to the history of medicine" and Library Journal recommends it highly.