by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Adrienne Ross Scanlan wrote a review of “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” by Bethany Brookshire for the New York Journal of Books. Brookshire explains how cultural perceptions, changes in human society and human philosophy assign negative or positive...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For New York Journal of Books, Adrienne Ross Scanlan reviews “Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet,” a nonfiction book by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy about the megaforests that are crucial to both a healthy planetary climate and human cultures. She...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the New York Journal of Books, Adrienne Ross Scanlan recently reviewed “The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth.” This nonfiction book is, she writes, “a tight weave of science writing and travel writing” that takes readers on an informative,...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Adrienne Ross Scanlan has book suggestions in the New York Journal of Books for your holiday gift list or to add to the stack on your nightstand. You might be intrigued by Adrienne’s review of the The Journey of Trees, which she says “offers weathered optimism.”...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 29, 2017 | ScienceWire
Rick Ells tells a modern story about evolution in his review of The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. Read Rick’s summary about scientists measuring the changes that Darwin noted in finches, then peruse the rest of his blog to fill up your reading list....