The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Natalie Angier, ed. Hough ton Mifflin, Boston, 2002. 309 pp., $27.50 (ISBN 0618082972).
Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course. Rosette M. Roat-Malone. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2002. 348 pp., illus. $89.95 (ISBN 047115976X).
Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfishes. Stephen Spotte. Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, CA, 2002. 322 pp., illus. $24.50 (ISBN 0887394698).
The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna. Paulo S. Oliviera and Robert J. Marquis, eds. Columbia University Press, New York, 2002. 398 pp., illus. $74.50 (ISBN 0231120435 cloth).
Conserving Living Natural Resources. Bertie Josephson Weddell. Cambridge University, New York, 2002. 426 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0521788129).
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society. David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago, Chicago, 2002. 217 pp., $25.00 (ISBN 0226901343 cloth).
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. 464 pp., illus. $34.95 ISBN 0520217497 cloth).
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival. Carl Safina. Henry Holt, New York, 2002. 400 pp., illus. $27.50 (ISBN 0805062889 cloth).
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice. Dennis J. Paustenbach, ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2002. 1556 pp., illus. $150.00 (ISBN 0471147478 cloth).
Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. Paul R. Josephson. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2002. 301 pp., $25.00 (ISBN 1559637773 cloth).
The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee. Henry Holt and Company, New York, January 2003. 225 pp., illus. $26.00 (ISBN 0805067817).
Reshaping Life: Key Issues in Genetic Engineering. 3rd ed. G. J. V. Nossal and Ross L. Coppel. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002. 253 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 0521818788).
Science in the Service of Human Rights. Richard Pierre Claude. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2002. 272 pp., $42.50 (ISBN 0812236793 cloth).
Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology. Clark Spencer Larsen. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2002. 272 pp., illus. $18.95 (ISBN 0691092842).