Book Reviews

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.

Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education

William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin. Princeton University Press, 2015. 400 pages. $29.95.

Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the Natural History

Sarah Blake McHam. Yale University Press, 2013. 450 pages. $85.00.

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

Jim Bell. Dutton, 2015. 325 pages + 8 color plates. $27.95.