Reviews

Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature

Paul Martineau

J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012; 144 pages, $39.95

Lights of Mankind: The Earth at Night As Seen from Space

L. Douglas Keeney

Lyons Press, 2011; 288 pages, $32.50

America’s Other Audubon

Joy M. Kiser

Princeton Architectural Press, 2012; 192 pages, $45.00

Desert Air

George Steinmetz

Abrams, 2012; 352 pages, $45.00

Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History

Carol Gracie

Princeton University Press, 2012; 290 pages, $29.95

A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science

Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud, photographs by Rosamond Purcell

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012; 456 pages, $75.00

Flies: The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera

Stephen A. Marshall

Firefly Books, 2012; 616 pages, $125.00

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

David S. Abraham

Yale University Press, 2015; 328 pages; $30.00

Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe

Anna Frebel

Princeton University Press, 2015; 352 pages; $29.95

Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn

Michael Blake

University of California Press, 2015; 277 pages; $29.95

Recent Stories

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.