New book reviews on the Science Shelf

I’ve been busy with book reviewing and updating my Science Shelf web site. Follow the link for my “What’s New” page or read on…

Click the cover images below for the newest reviews on the site.

• This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
  by Daniel J. Levitin

• Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist
  by Eugene H. Kaplan

• The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
  by Lee Smolin
  
• Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit

• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
  by Edward O. Wilson

• Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister’s Wife Reexamines Faith
  by Carlene Cross

• Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian
  by Chet Raymo (reviewed by Julie Falkner)