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Nature 460, 574-577 (30 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/460574a; Published online 29 July 2009
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A break from the bench
David Poeppel1, Mike Brown2, Susan Solomon3, Jerry A. Coyne4, Ming-Wei Wang5, Jonathan Zittrain6, Carl Zimmer7, Felice Frankel8, Hugh Young Rienhoff9, Bruce Hood10, Neil Shubin11, Eugenie Scott12, Sandra Knapp13 & Adam Kepecs14
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Nature regulars give their recommendations for relaxed, inspiring holiday reading and viewing — from climate-change history to Isaac Newton the detective.
BOOK REVIEWED-In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays
by Bertrand Russell
Routledge Classics: 2004.
BOOK REVIEWED-The Control of Nature
by John McPhee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1990.
BOOK REVIEWED-The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
by David Archer
Princeton University Press: 2008.
BOOK REVIEWED-Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2002.
BOOK REVIEWED-An Edible History of Humanity
by Tom Standage
Walker & Company: 2009.
BOOK REVIEWED-In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace
by David Post
Oxford University Press: 2009.
BOOK REVIEWED-When Species Meet
by Donna Haraway
University of Minnesota Press: 2007.
BOOK REVIEWED-The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
by James Boyle
Yale University Press: 2008.
BOOK REVIEWED-Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
by Thomas Levenson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2009.
BOOK REVIEWED-House, M.D. (Season 4 DVD) Episode 15 ('House's Head') directed by Greg Yaitanes; Episode 16 ('Wilson's Heart') directed by Katie Jacobs
Written by David Shore, Peter Blake, David Foster, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner & Doris Egan
BOOK REVIEWED-A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by John Berger
Vintage: 1997. First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1967.
BOOK REVIEWED-Descartes' Baby: How Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
by Paul Bloom
Arrow Books: 2005. First published by William Heinemann: 2004.
BOOK REVIEWED-Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
by Carl Zimmer
William Heinemann/Pantheon Books: 2008.
BOOK REVIEWED-The Rough Guide to Evolution
by Mark Pallen
Rough Guides: 2009.
BOOK REVIEWED-On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
by Charles Darwin
Penguin Classics: 2009. First published by John Murray: 1859.
BOOK REVIEWED-Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions
by Read Montague
Plume (Penguin): 2007.
DAVID POEPPEL Many academics in the United States will have spent the past few months frenetically applying for support from the sudden infusion of research funds made available by Barack Obama's administration. Now, the over-stimulation of the stimulus package should be balanced with a break from the academy — with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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