Book reviews by Jeffrey O. Shallit

Review of Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Appeared in Skeptic magazine.

Review of Ian Plimer, Telling Lies for God, Random House Australia, 1994. Appeared OASIS Newsletter, V. 8 No. 17 (Fall 1995), pp. 40-42.

Review of David Humphreys, "The Astonishing Elements of Life" (videotape).

Review of Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah.

Review of Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, Prima Publishing, 1997. Appeared in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 6, No.2 (1998), 80-82. (Note: the version presented here is the version I wrote. The actual published review has been edited by the Skeptic editor.)

Review of Newson-Buchbinder, The University Means Business, Garamond, 1988. Appeared in FAUW Forum, No. 98 (January/February, 2000), page 9.

Review of Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture, W. W. Norton, 2000. Appeared in FAUW Forum, No. 103 (November/December, 2000), pages 12-13.

Review of Denis Guedj, The Parrot's Theorem, McArthur and Company, 2000. Appeared in Kitchener-Waterloo Record, March 24 2001, p. C3.

Review of James Le Fanu, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Carroll & Graf, 2000. FAUW Forum, No. 107 (April 2001), pages 16-18.

Review of Phillip Johnson, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, InterVarsity Press, 1997.

Review of Richard Wheeler, The Buffalo Commons, Forge, 2000.

Review of M. Lothaire, Algebraic Combinatorics on Words, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Review of William Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. Appeared in BioSystems 66 (2002), 93-99.

Review of Armand Nicholi, Jr., The Question of God, Free Press, 2002. Appeared in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 10, No. 4 (2004), 78-80.

Review of William Dembski, The Design Revolution, InterVarsity Press, 2004. Also appeared in slightly modified form at the Panda's Thumb.

Review of Mathematics by Experiment by J. Borwein and D. Bailey, and Experimentation in Mathematics by J. Borwein, D. Bailey, and R. Girgensohn. Appeared in Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (8) (September 2005), 863--865.

Review of Why Us?, by James Le Fanu, in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 31 (6) (2011).

Review of Biscuits of Number Theory, ed. by Art Benjamin and Ezra Brown, MAA, 2009. Appeared in ACM SIGACT News, June 2012, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 21-22.

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