Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts

  • Kenneth R. Foster &
  • Peter W. Huber
MIT Press, $20 £13.95

“In its single-minded emphasis on making US courtrooms safe for science, the book overlooks crucial issues of law and public policy⃛ And the tragic question of how justice can be rendered in a world of irreducibly uncertain knowledge is bypassed in silence.” Sheila Jasanoff, Nature 388, 635 (1997).

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton

  • Clark Spencer Larsen
Cambridge University Press, £24.95, $39.95

Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean including the Red Sea

  • Ewald Lieske &
  • Robert Myers
Princeton University Press, $22.95

Queen Victoria's Gene: Haemophilia and the Royal Family

  • D. M. Potts &
  • W. T. W. Potts
Sutton Publishing, £8.99, $17.95

The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses

  • John S. Dryzek
Oxford University Press, £13.99

Dolphin Societies: Discoveries and Puzzles

Edited by:
  • Karen Pryor &
  • Kenneth S. Norris
University of California Press, $22, £17.50