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Book Reviews

  1. Richard Powers, "The Gold Bug Variations," 1991.  Engineering & Science, 1992, 55 (4), 41-2. (pdf)
  2. Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams," 1993.  Engineering & Science, 1993, 56 (3), 38-9. (pdf)
  3. Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, "The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science," 1993.  Engineering & Science, 1993, 57 (1), 39-40. (pdf)
  4. Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science," 1994.  Chemical & Engineering News, 1995, 73 (9 January), 27-8 (with S. J. Weininger). (pdf)
  5. John Horgan, "The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age," 1996.  Engineering & Science, 1996, 60 (4), 28-9. (pdf)
  6. Roald Hoffmann, "The Same and Not the Same," 1995.  The Chemical Intelligencer 1997, 3 (1), 59-60. (pdf)
  7. Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides, "On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science," 1997.  Engineering & Science, 1998, 62 (1), 35-6. (pdf)
  8. Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, "The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology," 1998; and "The Golem: What You Should Know about Science (2nd Ed.)," 1998.  Physics World, 1999, 12 (February), 40. (pdf)
  9. Michael Ruse, "Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?" 1999.  Chemical & Engineering News, 1999, 77 (9 August), 40-1. (pdf)
  10. Jerome Berson, "Chemical Creativity: Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others," 1999.  Science, 1999, 285, 2075. (pdf)
  11. Joe Schwarcz, "Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life," 1999.  J. Chem. Educ., 2000, 77 (July), 834. (pdf)
  12. Peter Parnell, "QED," 2001; Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann, "Oxygen," 2001.  Engineering & Science, 2001, 65 (1), 33-4. (pdf)
  13. Christopher Frayling, "Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema," 2005.  Science, 2005, 310, 1770-1. (pdf)
  14. Philip Ball, "Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry," 2005. Chemical & Engineering News2006, 84 (4 September), 56-7. (pdf)
  15. Jonah Lehrer, "Proust was a Neuroscientist," 2007; and David Edwards, "Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation," 2008.  Science, 2008, 319, 1763. (pdf)
  16. Allegra Goodman, "Intuition," 2006.  Engineering & Science, 2008, 71 (2), 37-8. (pdf)
  17. Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation," 2008.  Phys. Today, 2009, 62 (March), 54. (pdf)
  18. Theodore L. Brown, "Imperfect Oracle: The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science," 2009. Tradition and Discovery, 2008-2010, 36 (3), 17-9. (pdf)
  19. Morton A. Myers, "Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science," 2012. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 5681–2. (pdf)
  20. C. N. R. Rao and Indumati Rao, "Lives and Times of Great Pioneers in Chemistry (Lavoisier to Sanger)," 2016. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 4862-3. (pdf)
  21. Adeline Johns-Putra (Ed.), "Climate and Literature," 2019.  Configurations, 2021, 29, 235-7. (pdf)
  22. Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes (Eds.), "Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel," 2021.  Configurations, 2022, 30, 233-5. (pdf)
  23. Jean-Patrick Connerade, "The Planetary Atom," 2022; and Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World," 2020.  Foundations of Chemistry, 2022, 24, 301-10. (pdf)