Book Reviews

The Lives of the Novel: A History

Thomas G. Pavel. Princeton University Press, 2014. 360 pages. $35.00.

The Last Bizarre Tale

David Madden. University of Tennessee Press, 2014. 256 pages. $24.95.

Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

Sarah Way Sherman. University of New Hampshire Press, 2013. 336 pages. $40.00.

Think Like a Freak

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2014. 268 pages. $28.99.

America’s Romance with the English Garden

Thomas J. Mickey. Ohio University Press, 2013. 272 pages. $26.95.

Achieving the Rare: Robert F. Christy’s Journey in Physics and Beyond

I-Juliana Christy. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2013. 349 pages. $38.00.

Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

Nicolas Rasmussen. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 264 pages. $35.00.

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.