Book Reviews in 2019

Reviews of the essential science reads this year.

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

Thane Gustafson argues that fuel pipelines foster stability. By Andrew Moravcsik

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

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

A hard-hitting study exposes the devastating effects of shame and discrimination. Julie Pulerwitz reviews.

An astronaut and an archaeologist explore the triumphs and disasters of space hardware. Meg Urry reviews.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

Andy Greenberg’s book Sandworm is trenchant on the mounting capacity of malware to wreak havoc. Brian Nussbaum reviews.

A trawl through the global tide of cast-offs shows how we might avoid drowning in them. Edward Humes reviews.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

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

Gaia Vince takes an enjoyable sprint through human evolution — Tim Radford reviews.

Susannah Cahalan’s investigation of the social-psychology experiment that saw healthy people sent to mental hospitals finds inconsistencies — Alison Abbott reviews.

Robert Shiller’s new book probes how social behaviour trumps statistics in determining the fate of economies — Tim Jackson reviews.

The strange circumstances surrounding the invention of the world’s first PC are probed by a new book — Sharon Weinberger reviews.

A look at hormone studies dissects fact from fake and questions interpretations — Randi Hutter Epstein reviews.