As noted in my previous blog, due to the shrinking freelance book review market, my opportunities to publish full-length reviews of science titles in major metropolitan newspapers are now few and far between. Because I do not want to leave that territory completely, I have decided to develop a blog that publishes short reviews of science books that I receive as examination copies. This is the second blog in an indefinite series.
I will also be posting this on my Science Shelf website, where you can find nearly two hundred science book reviews that I have written over the last 20
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