by Michael Barton | Oct 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Psychology
The American Psychological Association has published a series of books geared toward children about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). While the causes of this type of neurodevelopmental disorder are largely not understood, the effects on children are...
by Michael Barton | Jun 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, History, Philosophy, Science & Technology, Social Science
Having previously written a book about literature and the Civil War, wherein he briefly mentions Charles Darwin in a section about abolitionism, Randall Fuller provides in his new book a fuller account of the influence of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and its...
by Michael Barton | Jan 26, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology
The astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan described in his groundbreaking television program Cosmos the fact that much of the matter in the universe, including the atoms that make up humans, was birthed in the fiery furnaces of stars millions and billions of...
by Michael Barton | Dec 9, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Medicine, Science & Technology
In The Mysterious World of the Human Genome, geneticist Frank Ryan, an Honorary Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology at Sheffield University in the UK, provides a smoothly-written overview of human genetics, from its historical origins to current discoveries and...
by Michael Barton | Nov 10, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Science & Technology
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Formats: Hardcover Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] In 2011, artist Catherine L. Weyerhaeuser published a children’s book about how mountains are formed....