Book Reviews

Whatever Happened to the Metric System: How America Kept Its Feet

John Bemelmans Marciano. Bloomsbury, 2014. 310 pages. $26.00.

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time

Jimena Canales. Princeton University Press, 2015. 479 pages. $35.00.

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

Paula Rabinowitz. Princeton University Press, 2014. 300 pages + Acknowledgments and Notes. $29.95.

Learn or Die

Edward D. Hess. Columbia University Press, 2014. 280 pages. $29.95.

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014

Edited by Mircea Pitici. Princeton University Press, 2014. 360 pages. $24.99 [paperback].

Capturing Music: The Story of Notation

Thomas Forrest Kelly. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 256 pages. $45.00.

The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired Our Best-Loved Authors

Jackie Bennett. Frances Lincoln, 2014. 176 pages. $40.00.

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

Frans de Waal. W.W. Norton, 2014. 320 pages. $16.95 [paperback].

The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy

Edited by Cornelia Dean. Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sterling, 2013. 557 pages. $24.95 (paper).

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

Eugene Rogan. Basic Books, 2015. 512 pages. $32.00.

Love and Lies

Clancy Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 258 pages. $25.00.

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

Michael Heller. Springer Verlag, 2009. 216 pages. $69.95.