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SciTech Book News

As a resource for librarians and other buyers of high-level books, SciTech Book News, published quarterly, cites about 2000 new books from several hundred publishers in each issue, offering concise reviews and annotations and thorough bibliographic information. The bibliography itself is arranged by subject, but this page and the other publisher pages present the material arranged by publisher.

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Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — December 2006

The dance of molecules; how nanotechnology is changing our lives.

Sargent, Ted.

1-56025-809-8

In more of a paean to the industry than an analysis of the science, Sargent (nanotechnology and photonics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) describes how far he and his colleagues have come in persuading Nature to fashion matter after their needs and in using refined control over atoms, electrons, and photons to better human existence. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Human genetic engineering; a guide for activists, skeptics, and the very perplexed.

Shanks, Pete.

978-1-56025-695-3

California-based writer and grassroots activist for peace and justice, Shanks offers an overview of the engineering of human genes, along with lots of references to deeper information and contacts for activism. Among his perspectives are clowns and cowboys in the cloning circus, selling human GE, gene doping in sports, manipulating public opinion, advocates and enablers, and AWOL regulators. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)