Book Reviews

Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic

Laura Dawes. Harvard University Press, 2014. 320 pages. $45.00.

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

Craig Nelson. Scribner, 2014. 437 pages. $29.99.

Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia

Valerie Sperling. Oxford University Press, 2014. 360 pages. $24.95.

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

Sam Kean. Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 416 pages. $27.00.

The Novel: An Alternative History 1600–1800

Steven Moore. Bloomsbury, 2013. 1,024 pages. $39.95.

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Marcelo Gleiser. Basic Books, 2014. 368 pages. $29.99.

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

David Nirenberg. W.W. Norton, 2013. 624 pages. $35.00.

The Modern Nutritional Diseases

Alice Ottoboni and Fred Ottoboni. Vincente Books, 2013. 2nd ed. 289 pages. $12.95 (paperback), $8.99 (Kindle).

Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian

A. Douglas Stone. Princeton University Press, 2013. 344 pages. $29.95.

Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience

G. Gabrielle Starr. The MIT Press, 2013. 272 pages. $25.00.

Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

Scott Sowerby. Harvard University Press, 2013. 416 pages. $49.95.

A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II

Maury Klein. Bloomsburry Press, 2013. 912 pages. $40.00.