Reviewing S&TS book reviews

Reviewing our book reviews: fifty years and counting.

The editorial team of The Gerontologist has been committed to providing its readers with up-to-date information about recently published books focused on gerontological science and practice since the inception of the journal in 1961. The initial issue of the journal included a list of recently published books. The first formal book review (of You Can't Count on Dying, by Natalie Harris Cabot) w...

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Pitfalls of reviewing reviews.

I commend Burton et al. [1] for publishing their review in the journal. Important reviews should be subject to the widest readership and most rigorous critique if they are to properly influence future practice. Reviews that are solely conducted by small groups in academia can miss out on the wider stakeholder engagement journals’ offer that encourages debate and fosters learning. A feature of t...

Book Reviews Alan Law

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...

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