These regular blog posts are for educated but non-expert readers who love science. For many years, I regularly sold freelance book reviews to major metropolitan newspapers. Over the past few years, the market for such reviews dried up, but I did not want to leave the field entirely. Fortunately, publishers still send me their catalogs and, if I request them, advance reading copies. I choose a few of the most interesting titles to feature in my postings.
I will also be adding these posts to my Science Shelf website, where you can find nearly two hundred science book reviews that I
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