BOOKS Charged Up About Basics of Science
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THE CANON: A WHIRLIGIG TOUR OF THE BEAUTIFUL BASICS OF  SCIENCE   Natalie Angier   Houghton Mifflin. 293 pp. $27.
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By Szostak, Rick  Integrating History and Human Science  In the second edition of Peter Burke's brief but important book, he urges historians to draw from a wide range of human science theory. Burke provides concise overviews of some 30 distinct theories.
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Science & environment: Bad science: A 1954 book called How to Lie with Statistics reads exactly like this column which I'm about to write on a Daily Telegraph story in 2008
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By Rettenmeyer, Carl W  BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS: THE BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. Robert E. Kohler. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 380 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 978069] 125398 cloth).
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A small group of authors (including a Nobel Prize winner and a couple of perennial best-seller writers) dare to hit the shelves this month.
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Summer books tend to fall into familiar tropes: the thriller, the historical romance, the tale of a charmingly rogue pet. And this crop of new books doesnât disappoint on that front.
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Playing fair, or promoting religion? Parents, civil liberty advocates and suburban-Atlanta school officials are in federal court over the issue of warning stickers on science textbooks.
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Russell Wattenberg had an idea: Give books away - preferably in bulk.
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ROME, Sep 13 (IPS) - It might be taken for granted in Europe that the  imparting of  knowledge through books is available to all,  regardless of their  social status. But in reality, however, it  is a different story.
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By Ojala, Marydee  Before there were online and the Internet, libraries connoted books to most people. Yet books are one of the more overlooked research resources in an electronic-information environment.
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People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens.
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By Roberts, Lissa  JONATHAN SIMON, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. vi+189. ISBN 0-75465044-8.
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Another book publisher makes inroads toward the digital side of content.
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The Associated Press reviews several notable boxed set releases:
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Although properly dubious about Santa, even the most hardened science-minded skeptics have a reason to enjoy the season of giving - it's also the season of getting science books.
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UK science education flushed away Physics GCSE papers are full of questions that are vague, stupid, insultingly easy, political, and non-scientific.â¦
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By Anna L. Mallory, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 22--One by one, students stacked 1,000-page red, blue and green engineering textbooks atop the cardboard structure they'd spent more than an hour creating.