Terrain.org reviews in this issue:
  

Lingerie Puts on a Labcoat
Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, and More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, by Robert Engelman

Mary Roach weaves their stories together with those of contemporary researchers, and her own transcontinental quest for all sexy science.... Robert Engelman doesn’t have much to say about sex, but the belief that women should be able to enjoy it free from worry about child-rearing is implicit throughout.

A Valuable Tool, with Caveats
Rich Michal reviews Design Charrettes for Sustainable Developments, by Patrick M. Condon

As an architect and resident of a New Urban community, I was excited to review Design Charrettes for Sustainable Developments by Patrick M. Condon (Island Press, 2007). I was even more excited after I read the preface and introduction. even though Chapters 1 through 4 were both too long and too dry, the final chapters make the book worth buying, reading, and using as a resource.

Stories That Sing
Simmons B. Buntin reviews Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound, by David Rothenberg

There’s something about these stories — the peculiarity of them, the witty way in which they’re woven into the science, Rothenberg’s eloquent pen above all — that makes Thousand Mile Song a page-turner. What drives momentum, too, is the author’s questioning, for the book is no less than a quest.