Book Reviews

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.

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

George Monbiot. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 319 pages. $25.00.

All for Nothing: Hamlet’s Negativity

Andrew Cutrofello. MIT Press, 2014. 226 pages. $37.49.

The Oldest Living Things in the World

Rachel Sussman. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 269 pages. $45.00.

Credit and Blame

Charles Tilly. Princeton University Press, 2014. 200 pages. $19.95. [paperback]

Madame Cézanne

Dita Amory with contributions by Philippe Cézanne, Ann Dumas, Charlotte Hale, Kathryn Kremnitzer, Marjorie Shelley, and Hilary Spurling. Yale University Press, 2014. 224 pages. $45.00.