From American Scientist, a review of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.; a review of Why Youth Is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development by David Bjorklund; a review of The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History by David Beerling; and a review of The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan. More and more reviews of books on China. Scott McLemee reviews Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman (and more and more and an excerpt and an interview). Aging acts account for most of the music industry's live performance revenue — what happens when these acts are gone? International front: The term "world music" has finally become redundant in 2008. A review of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon. A review of What Sport Tells Us About Life by Ed Smith (and more and more). From The Nation, a special issue on the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. Michael Ruse reviews Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa. The introduction (and an interview) to The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman (and a review).
