Reviews

The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets

Alan Boss

Basic Books, 2009; 227 pages, $26.00

An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds

Jonathan Silvertown

University of Chicago Press, 2009; 224 pages, $25.00

One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World

Gordon Hempton and John Grossmann

Free Press, 2009; 368 pages, $26.00

Ivory’s Ghosts

John Frederick Walker

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009; 312 pages, $25.00

Decoding the Heavens

Jo Marchant

Da Capo Press, 2009; 328 pages, $25.00

Made for Each Other

Meg Daley Olmert

Da Capo Press, 2009; 291 pages, $26.00

Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon

Nancy C. Lutkehaus

Princeton University Press, 2008; 374 pages, $29.95)

Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

Sharon Waxman

Times Books, 2008; 414 pages, $30.00

Is God a Mathematician?

Mario Livio

Simon and Schuster, 2009; 308 pages, $26.00

Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

Charles Seife

Viking, 2008; 294 pages; $25.95

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