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Science Chronicles June 2014: The Summer Books Issue

 
 
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Garden at Sainte-Adresse, Claude Monet. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org), OASC
 

Table of Contents

Conservation
4  Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Reviewed by Craig Leisher)
5  Eisenberg: The Carnivore Way: Coexisting With and Conserving North America’s Carnivores (Matt Miller)
6  Sabin: The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future (Marty Downs)
7  Albert: Damming the Delaware: The Rise and Fall of the Tocks Island Dam (Bud Cook)
 
Fiction
8   Bingham: Love Story, With Murders (Bob Lalasz)
9    Bayard: Roosevelt’s Beast (Jonathan Adams)
10  Robinson: Science in the Capitol Trilogy (Gottlieb)
11  Kingsolver: Flight Behavior (Charlotte Reemts)
12  McBride: The Good Lord Bird
      Harris: An Office and a Spy (Adams)
 
Science Fiction/Fantasy
13  Howey: Sand (Tim Boucher)
14  Vaughan and Staples: Saga (Susanna Danner)
 
Business/Public Policy
15  Korngold: A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems...Where Governments Cannot (Sheila Reddy)
17  Micklethwait and Wooldridge: The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State (Peter Kareiva)
 
Science
18  Storr: The Unpersuadables (Miller)
19  Money: The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes (John Sall)
21  Gladwell: Blink (Michael Pressman)
 
Memoir
22  Manning: It Runs in the Family (Miller)
 
Image: Garden at Sainte-Adresse, Claude Monet. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org), OASC
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