Nature‘s Spring Books issue is published this week. Books reviewed include:

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter (reviewer Susan Blackmore)

Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein (reviewer John S. Rigden)

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier (reviewer Kathleen Taylor)

Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones (reviewer Daniel Pauly)

The Invisible Sex: Uncovering The True Roles Of Woman In Prehistory by J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer & Jake Page (reviewer Pat Shipman)

Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis (reviewer Roger Pielke, Jr)

Swimming in Stone: The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley by John Long (reviewer Per E Ahlberg)

Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry by Ian Stewart (reviewer Joseph Mazur).