At the Science Shelf, our favorite dessert is pi. So although it is a week past Pi Day 2018, we offer these recently released book treats to our readers (along with my picture in my Pi Day bowtie).
I archive my book reviews at my Science Shelf website, so you may want to visit there to find reviews of about two hundred science book reviews that I have written since 1997, plus a few guest reviews as well.
This posting includes five books that have appeared in print during the past few weeks.
The first is by Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker,
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