BOOK REVIEWS

Water Is: The indispensability of water in society and life

Seth B. Darling and Seth W. Snyder

World Scientific, £25.99

Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero: The Beginner’s Guide to Programming Bacteria

Justin Pahara and Julie Legault

Barnes and Noble,

£37.99

10 Reasons to love a whale

Catherine Barr
Lincoln Children’s Books,
£9.99

Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs: 50 Years of Research 1967–2017

Edited by Dennis McKenna 

Synergetic Press,

£88.99 (hardback), $19.99 (eBook)

The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science

Susannah Gibson
Oxford University Press,
£25.00

Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction

Marlene Zuk and Leigh W Simmons

Oxford University Press,

£7.99

Mammalogy Techniques: Lab Manual

James M Ryan
Johns Hopkins University Press
£29.50

Molecular Machines: A Materials Science Approach

Giovanni Zocchi

Princeton University Press,

£50