Book Reviews

The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

Brian Fagan. Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 265 pages. $28.00.

Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot

Peter Crane. Yale University Press, 2013. 408 pages. $40.00.

Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life

Dorothy Gallagher. Yale University Press, 2014. 171 pages. $25.00.

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

Nina Teicholz. Simon & Schuster, 2014. 479 pages. $27.99 (paper); $12.99 (Kindle); 14.99 (Nook).

Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns

David Margolick. Other Press, 2013. 382 pages. $28.95.

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2011. 285 pages. $53.15 (hard cover); $10.13 (paper).

Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez

Aaron Hirsh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 394 pages. $28.00.

Roof Life

Svetlana Alpers. Yale University Press, 2013. 264 pages. $28.00.

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Edited, with Introduction and Acknowledgments, by Nigel Simeone. Yale University Press, 2013. 606 pages. $38.00.

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

Paul Taylor. Public Affairs & Pew Research Group, 2014. 197 pages + 51 page Appendix, Notes and Index. $26.99.

The Myth of the Spoiled Child

Alfie Kohn. Da Capo, 2013. 280 pages. $25.99.

The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects

William E. Burrows. Prometheus Books, 2014. 282 pages. $19.95.