Books & Arts in 2015

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Henry Nicholls talks to pioneering field biologist George Schaller — still studying iconic species at 82.

Lynn Gamwell traces the millennia of symbiosis between mathematics and art.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Colin Ellard examines a study of the new urban paradigm that fosters 'deep sharing'.

Nancy Baron reviews a handbook for scientists keen to influence policy.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Davide Castelvecchi reviews a hefty biography of the prolific Enlightenment luminary Leonhard Euler.

Stuart West and helpers compare the cut and thrust of three games that explore life's greatest competition.

Andrew Robinson examines three books that see seismicity as both grimly destructive and, in some contexts, culturally energizing.

Anthony King reviews an exhibition on the horror, and hope, posed by trauma.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Adam Rome revisits five prescient classics that first made sustainability a public issue in the 1960s and 1970s.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

As Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reaches 150, Francine Abeles surveys its creator's wide-ranging legacy.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Gerard Evan reviews an inspiring, at times frustrating, chronicle of the war on cancer by one of its generals.

Jennifer Rampling applauds an account of how Johannes Kepler saved his mother from being burned as a witch.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Lasana T. Harris commends a book exposing the lack of scientific basis to 'enhanced interrogation techniques'.