Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample
(Basic Books, 2010, $25.95, 320 pages)
This review by Fred Bortz was also published in the Dallas Morning News.
Book Reviews
Review of The 4% Universe by Richard Panek
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek
( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 288 pages, $26.00, January, 2011)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
Review of The Evolutionary World by Geerat Vermeij
The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization by Geerat Vermeij
(Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 336 pages, $26.99, December, 2010)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
Science Book News
The Fall 2010 newsletter of my Science Shelf Book Review Archive is now online. And my newest book for young readers, 
Seven Wonders of Space Technology has rolled off the presses.
Book Review, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson
(Riverhead, October 2010, $26.95, 336 pages)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
Review of Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
(Viking, 2010, $25.95, 304 pages)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
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Review of Hawking’s GRAND DESIGN
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam, 2010, $28.00, 208 pages)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
Hawking will soon have a new book, so here’s a review of his last one
I have just written and submitted a review of the upcoming The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, which I will publish here after it appears in the major metropolitan newspaper that assigned it. Meanwhile, that seems like a good reason to republish my review of Hawking’s 2001 book, The Universe in a Nutshell here.
Review of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
(Norton, $25.95, 336 pages, August 2010)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
We are the cooking apes, the creatures of the flame
NPR’s most e-mailed story of the past week discussed the topic of how eating meat made humans smarter. It included an interview with Richard Wrangham, whose book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human I reviewed last year. It made me realize that my science blog readers might appreciate my revisiting some reviews of books … Read more