Books: Science and Environment


'Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds,' by Joel L. Kraemer
BOOK REVIEW
By Jonathan Kirsch
The biography is an engaging, impressive work of scholarship about the sage.
November 16, 2008

BOOK REVIEW
By Charles Solomon
The country takes a back seat to Africa when it comes to world awareness of the disease. Essayists reveal a culture of repression and shame.
November 15, 2008

Thomas Friedman sounds the call for a green revolution
BOOKS
By Susan Salter Reynolds
'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' outlines five problems the U.S. faces because of its dependence on fossil fuels.
September 28, 2008

Discoveries
BOOK REVIEW
By Susan Salter Reynolds
'Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy' by Bonnie J. Gisel; 'Drafting Culture: A Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards' by George Barnett Johnston; 'Classical Ch
October 12, 2008

BOOK REVIEW
By Bernadette Murphy
The author builds an 'Eco Shed,' and it costs about $90,000. Environmentally friendly? Mostly, but it ain't cheap.
September 27, 2008

'The Suicide Index' by Joan Wickersham
BOOK REVIEW
By David L. Ulin
How a family tragedy cast a long shadow over one writer's life.
August 31, 2008

'Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum' by Richard Fortey
BOOK REVIEW
By Sara Lippincott
A paleontologist takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of a London landmark.
August 17, 2008

ASTRAL WEEKS
By Ed Park
The first posthumously published work by Clarke, co-written with a fellow legend, looks at sexuality, aliens and a long-ago mathematical formula.
August 10, 2008

'The Last Day' by Nicholas Shrady
BOOK REVIEW
By Wendy Smith
The destruction of Lisbon by a major earthquake in 1755 and its repercussions in Enlightenment Europe.

'Group Theory in the Bedroom' by Brian Hayes
BOOK REVIEW
By Sara Lippincott
A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs.
May 11, 2008

A force to be reckoned with
The Writing Life
By Susan Salter Reynolds
In 'The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Life' and 'American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau,' the writer keeps our eyes on the argument.
April 13, 2008

'Panama Fever'
BOOK REVIEW
By Tim Rutten
Matthew Parker's book tells the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal.