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0036-8075

ISSN electrónico

1095-9203

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Estados Unidos

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Fish Gold Rush Billion-Dollar Fish: The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock. Kevin M. Bailey. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013. 302 pp. $25, £17.50. ISBN 9780226022345.

Elizabeth Lester

<jats:p>Bailey provides a biologist's perspective on the rise of the world's most lucrative food fishery and its uncertain future.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 345-346

Lucid Experiences of Altered Reality Hallucinations. Oliver Sacks. Knopf, New York, 2012. 343 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9780307957245. Picador, London. £18.99. ISBN 9781447208259.

Lauren DiPerna

<jats:p>Through considerations of the effects of various medical conditions, Sacks details the range of apparitions experienced by completely sane people.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 346-346

A Measure for Accounting Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics. Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2012. 298 pp. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780520262881.

Kerstin Nordstrom

<jats:p>The authors' wide-ranging survey of calories will help readers appreciate personal and political dimensions of food choices.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 347-347

Stories for the Bar The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks. Amy Stewart. Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC, 2013. 399 pp. $19.95. ISBN 9781616200466. Timber Press, London. £14.99. ISBN 978160469

Daniela Hernandez

<jats:p>Stewart offers sips of the stories of botanical sources of alcohol, flavorings, mixers, and garnishes.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 347-348

What the Woodpecker Saw Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. Aaron Sachs. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2013. 496 pp. $35, £25. ISBN 9780300176407.

Marissa Weiss

<jats:p>Threading his personal story through a history of the notion of Arcadia in 19th-century United States, Sachs reflects on our tendency to deny both death and environmental limits.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 348-348

Books Received

<jats:p> A <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/data/books/brl6144.xhtml">listing of books received</jats:ext-link> at <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> during the week ending 19 July 2013. </jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 348-348

Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations

K. Arrow; M. Cropper; C. Gollier; B. Groom; G. Heal; R. Newell; W. Nordhaus; R. Pindyck; W. Pizer; P. Portney; T. Sterner; R. S. J. Tol; M. Weitzman

<jats:p>The United States and others should consider adopting a different approach to estimating costs and benefits in light of uncertainty.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 349-350

Why Does Gastric Bypass Surgery Work?

Hans-Rudolf Berthoud

<jats:p> Surgical rearrangement of the gut stimulates a growth response that reprograms glucose metabolism and reverses diabetes. <jats:named-content content-type="related-content"> [Also see Report by <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6144" page="406" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="341" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1235103"> Saeidi <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:related-article> ] </jats:named-content> </jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 351-352

How Nitrogen Is Lost

Bess B. Ward

<jats:p>The supply and composition of organic matter control the processes by which fixed nitrogen is lost from the ocean.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 352-353

Proton Conduction with Metal-Organic Frameworks

George K. H. Shimizu; Jared M. Taylor; SiRim Kim

<jats:p>Further development of microporous crystalline materials as proton conductors may lead to better electrolyte membranes for fuel cells.</jats:p>

Palabras clave: Multidisciplinary.

Pp. 354-355