Review of Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, Wilson Quarterly

 

Bioterrorism and the Politics of Smallpox, a review of Richard Preston's ''Demon in the Freezer,'' Chicago Tribune

 

Visions of the Future, a review of three biotechnology books, including Francis Fukuyama's ''Our Post Human Future,'' Chicago Tribune

 

Double-Helix Double Cross? a review of Brenda Maddox's ''Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA,'' San Francisco Chronicle

 

Heroism in the Forests of Belorussia, a review of Peter Duffy's ''The Bielski Brothers,'' Chicago Tribune

 

Mauve: How one man invented a color that changed the world, by Simon Garfield, reviewed for Chicago Tribune

 

The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the silent epidemic of obsessive bad thoughts, by Lee Baer, reviewed for Chicago Tribune

 

A Dreamer of Rockets Who Fell to Earth, a review of Elizabeth Weil's ''They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus,'' San Francisco Chronicle.

 

Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon, by Patrick Tierney, reviewed for San Francisco Chronicle and Pittsburgh Post Gazette

 

Neither Nature Nor Nurture, a review of Paul Ehrlich's ''Human Natures,'' Popular Science

 

Remembering Jim Crow, edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad, reviewed for Africana.com

 

Mosquito: A Natural History of our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe, by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio, reviewed for Portland Tribune

 

Body Bazaar: The war over body tissue in the biotechnology age, by Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, reviewed for San Francisco Chronicle

 

Cell Phones: Invisible hazards in the wireless age, by George Carlo and Martin Schram, reviewed for San Francisco Chronicle

 

Chance in the House of Fate: a natural history of heredity, by Jennifer Ackerman, reviewed for San Francisco Chronicle

 

Einstein in Love, by Dennis Overbye, reviewed for San Francisco Chronicle and Honolulu Weekly

 

Cigarettes: An anatomy of industry from seed to smoke, by Tara Parker-Pope, reviewed for Portland Tribune

 

Laser: The inventor, the Nobel laureate, and the thirty-year patent war, by Nick Taylor, reviewed for Chicago Tribune

 

The Scalpel and the Butterfly, by Deborah Rudacille, reviewed for Chicago Tribune

 

Bold Science, by Ted Anton, reviewed for San Francisco Chronicle

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