{"id":9018,"date":"2005-10-01T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredbortz.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/9018\/science-shelf-newsletter-for-october-spooks-ets-and-more\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T22:41:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:41:31","slug":"science-shelf-newsletter-for-october-spooks-ets-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/fredbortz\/9018\/science-shelf-newsletter-for-october-spooks-ets-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Shelf Newsletter for October: Spooks, ETs, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Science Readers,<\/p>\n

It’s the beginning of a new month and time to visit the new Science Shelf newsletter again at http:\/\/www.scienceshelf.com\/news.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As noted in last month’s newsletter, I spent much of September immersed in writing a book manuscript that is due by year’s end. Still, I always write better when I have something on my reading table. That means that although I will not be adding as
\nmany new reviews to the Science Shelf for the next few months, I will always have something good, like
\n
\nSpook: Science Tackles the Afterlife<\/i> by Mary Roach
\nand
\nLife as We Do Not Know It<\/i> by Peter Ward to share with you. I’ve got review assignments for both books, and I’m eagerly awaiting their arrival at my door.<\/p>\n

Those are two reasons why I call this month’s Science Shelf Newletter “Spooks and Other Life Forms.” Another is the ongoing issue of whether to teach “Intelligent Design” in science classes. I read and got permission to reprint “Debating Darwin,” great book-centered column on that topic by Dallas Morning News critic Jerome Weeks, whose entertaining style has gained him a national following. You can find the column at http:\/\/www.scienceshelf.com\/DebatingDarwin.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While you’re waiting to hear about those new titles by Roach and Ward, you might
\nenjoy my reviews of the authors’ earlier efforts. Roach’s Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers<\/i><\/a> is guaranteed to produce guilty guffaws, and Ward and Donald Brownlee’s The Life and Death of Planet Earth<\/i><\/a> will leave you with a sense of appreciation for this planet at this time in its life.<\/p>\n

I’m looking for a reviewer for Halley’s Quest: A Selfless Genius and his Troubled Paramore<\/u><\/i> by Julie Wakefield. I also have review copies of a few other titles, such as Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth<\/i> by Edwin Danson. If you think you can deliver a review that your fellow Science Shelf readers would enjoy, look over the Books Received page<\/a> and send me an e-mail from there with your request.<\/p>\n

Repeating last month’s “tooting my own horn” department, the library-bound edition of Beyond Jupiter: The Story of Planetary Astronomer Heidi Hammel<\/i><\/a>, part of the “Women’s Adventures in Science” series for middle-grade readers, has been published by Scholastic Library Publishing. For some reason, it is slow to be available on Amazon.com, but that should soon change. Please tell your favorite young-readers’ librarians about this one, and check it out for yourself as well. The binding may make the price a little steep for most book buyers, but not for libraries. If you’re waiting for a less expensive editon, the book is currently scheduled for paperback publication in spring 2006 from the Joseph Henry Press of the National Academy of Science.<\/p>\n

Happy science reading from your ever-evolving correspondent,
\nFred Bortz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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