K. Kampourakis (2024) Review: Double Helix History: Genetics and the Past, by Jerome de Groot. Double Helix History: Genetics and the Past by Jerome de Groot. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. xv + 205 pp.; index; paperback, $49.99; hardback, $180.00; eBook, $44.99. The Public Historian (2024) 46 (3): 135–137.
K. Kampourakis (2024) Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin. By Donovan O. Schaefer. Durham (North Carolina): Duke University Press. $104.95 (hardcover); $27.95 (paper). vii + 317 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9781478015628 (hc); 9781478018254 (pb); 9781478022879 (eb). 2022. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 99 (1), 51-52.
K. Kampourakis (2024) How Scientists Themselves May be Responsible for Science Distrust. Gary Smith (2023). Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 336 Pages. £25.00. ISBN: 9780192868459 (hardback). Science & Education, 33, 1337–1339.
K. Kampourakis (2024) Review of Rudolph, J.L. (2023) Why we Teach Science (and Why we Should).Oxford: University Press. 224 pages. ISBN9780192867193. Progress in Science Education, 7(1), 54-55.
K. Kampourakis (2023) Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Volume 320. By Yafeng Shan. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $129.99. ix + 197 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-3-030-50616-2 (hc); 978-3-030-50617-9 (eb). 2020. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 98(4), 224-225.
K. Kampourakis (2023) Treasure Your Exceptions: The Science and Life of William Bateson. Second Edition. By Alan G. Cock and Donald R. Forsdyke. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $249.99. xxxix + 688 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-3-030-92098-2 (hc); 978-3-030-92099-9 (eb). 2022. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 98(3), 167.
K. Kampourakis (2023) Gregor Mendel—The Scientist: Based on Primary Sources 1822–1884. Springer Biographies. By Anna Matalová and Eva Matalová. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $84.99. xvii + 304 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 978-3-030-98922-4 (hc); 978-3-030-98923-1 (eb). 2022. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 98(2), 89-90.
K. Kampourakis (2023) Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East. By Ian McGonigle. Cambridge (Massachusetts). MIT Press. $75.00 (paper). xxv + 193 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780262542944. 2021. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 98(1), 45-46.
K. Kampourakis (2023) Remapping Race in a Global Context. History and Philosophy of Biology. Edited by Ludovica Lorusso and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. New York: Routledge Publishing (Taylor & Francis Group). $160.00. xvii + 325 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9781138631434 (hc); 9781032152707 (pb); 9781315208893 (eb). 2022. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 98(1), 29-30.
K. Kampourakis (2023) The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters. Dietrich, M. R., Borrello, M. E., & Harman, O. (Eds.). (2021). Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Springer. ISBN: 978–3-319–90,118-3, 538 + xiv pages, price: 448 CHF. Science & Education (online)
K. Kampourakis (2022) Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science. By Elizabeth D. Jones. New Haven (Connecticut): Yale University Press. $40.00. xiii + 264 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-300-24012-2. 2022.The Quarterly Review of Biology, 97,3, 231.
K. Kampourakis (2022) Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (online)
K. Kampourakis (2021) Television and the genetic imaginary, by Sofia Bull, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019, 239pp., 114,39 € (Hardcover), ISBN 978-1-137-54846-7. New Genetics and Society, 40:2 238-239.
K. Kampourakis (2020) EUGENE EARSHAW-WHYTE, Modelling Evolution: A New Dynamic Account, New York: Routledge, 2018, 145 pp, £105.00 (hardback). History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42, 7
K. Kampourakis (2019) GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods. By Sheldon Krimsky. 2019. MIT Press. (ISBN: 9780262039192). 216 pp. Hardback, $24.95.
K. Kampourakis (2019) A (Really Useful) Companion to the History of Science. Bernard Lightman (Ed.) (2016) A Companion to the History of Science. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-1-118-62077-9, 618 pages, price: $195.00 (hardback). Science & Education, (6-7), 823-825.
K. Kampourakis (2018) Genetics, Ethics and Education. Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Edited by Susan Bouregy, Elena L. Grigorenko, Stephen R. Latham, and Mei Tan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $120.00 (hardcover); $39.99 (paper). xvi + 404 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-107-11871-3 (hc); 978-1-107-54487-1 (pb). 2017. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 93(3), 275.
K. Kampourakis (2018) Genetics? No Problem! By Kevin O’Dell. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley. $45.00 (paper). xiv + 375 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 9781118833889 (hc); 9781118833872 (pb). 2017. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 93(3), 277.
K. Kampourakis (2018) Darwinism, Democracy, and Race. John P Jackson, David J. Depew (2017) Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Routledge, ISBN: 9781138628175, 252 Pages, Price: £105 (Hardback), Science & Education, 27 (5-6), 589–590.
K. Kampourakis (2018) Superstition and science. Derek Wilson (2017) Superstition and Science: Mystics, Sceptics, Truth-seekers and Charlatans. London: Robinson, 320pp, £14.99 PB, Metascience, 27(2), 313–316.
K. Kampourakis (2018) Human nature from multiple perspectives. Tibayrenc, M., Ayala, F. J. (Eds.). (2017). On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion. San Diego: Academic Press, ISBN: 9780124201903, 814 pages, 129.95 USD (hardback). Science & Education, 27(1-2) 243-244.
K. Kampourakis (2016) There is more to evolution than just natural selection. Masatoshi Nei (2013) Mutation-Driven Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN: 978-0-19-966173-2, 256 pp, Price: £60.00. Science & Education, 25(1-2), 229-234.
K. Kampourakis (2015) Can there be a theory of development? Allessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu (eds) (2014)Towards a Theory of Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 304pp, £37.50 PB, £75.00 HB. Metascience, 24(2), 199-203.
K. Kampourakis (2014) Teaching the nature of science: An authoritative and insightful but non-empirical approach. Douglas Allchin (2014) Teaching the Nature of Science: Perspectives and Resources. Saint Paul, MN: SHiPS Education Press, 2013, xiii+310pp, $40.00 PB. Metascience, 23 (3), 589-592.
K. Kampourakis (2014) Michael Ruse (Ed.) (2013)The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 583 pp, price: £120.00, ISBN: 9780521195317. Science & Education, 23(3) 711-714.
K. Kampourakis (2013). R. Duschl, H. Schweingruber, and A. Shouse (2007) Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching in Grades K-8. National Research Council, Washington DC, 2007, 5 ISBN-10: 0-309-10205-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-309-10205-6, 6 404 pp, price $44.96. Science & Education, 22(5), 1256-1266.
K. Kampourakis (2013). Michael Ruse (Ed) (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518205-7, 656 pages, price: $150. Science & Education, 22(2), 377-379.
K. Kampourakis (2012). Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick (eds) (2008) The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Continuum, London and New York, ISBN: 9780826458339, 736 Pages (2 vols.), price: £200.00. Science & Education, 21(7), 1035-1038.
K. Kampourakis (2010). Jim Endersby (Ed) (2009) Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN-13: 9780521867092, 520 pages, price: £70.00. Science & Education, 19 (6-8), 827-831.
K. Kampourakis (2010). Matt Young and Paul K. Strode (2009) Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails). Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-8135-4550-9, 224 pages, price: $21.95 Science & Education, 19(1), 115-118.