Reviews
Bill McKibben of the Washington Monthly has a favorable view of Souder's methodology "This is a revealing and important book, and you should begin by ignoring the subtitle. Something tells me it was not the author's choice: In fact, he's done a remarkably sober and meticulous job of following a story that's been misreported in almost every newspaper and on every TV station in the country."
In the Quarterly Review of Biology, Paul Stephen Corn appreciates the book's accessibility "The book is written with little technical jargon and should be accessible to any biologically literate, nonprofessional reader. I also recommend this book to professional audiences, including undergraduates and early graduate students who still harbor illusions that science proceeds the way it is described in textbooks."
Annie Stewart of the Ecologist also appreciates the books easy to read tone "Souder manages to make frogs as fascinating to the casual reader as they are to the scientists who study them."
Ilse Heidmann of the Library Journal has a slightly negative review "While Souder's reporting is exhaustive, it is also repetitious and tiresome at times. Moreover, his frequent suggestions of a looming global catastrophe sound ominously alarmist. But who knows--maybe human extinction is not far behind."
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