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The article reviews the book "Modeling the Environment," by Andrew Ford.

The article reviews several books including "The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On" by Julian Havil, "Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems" by Ian Stewart, and "Naive Decision Making: Mathematics Applied to the Social World" by T. W. Körner.

The article reviews several books including "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012," edited by Mircea Pitici, "Icons of Mathematics: An Exploration of Twenty Key Images," by Claudi Alsina and Roger B. Nelsen, and "The Data Journalism Handbook: How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News," by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, and Liliana Bounegru.

The article reviews several books including "Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art," by Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell, "Expeditions in Mathematics," edited by Tatiana Shubin, David F. Hayes and Gerald L. Alexanderson and "Sources in the Development of Mathematics: Series and Products from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century," by Ranjan Roy.

The article reviews several books including "Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution," by Michael Meyerson, "The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study," by David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby and William J. Cook , and "Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior," by Ken Steiglitz.

Reviews several books on mathematics. "Scale Invariance in Global Terrorism," by Aaron Clauset and Maxwell Young; "The Mathematical Century: The 30th Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years," by Pergiorgio Odifreddi; "Capturing the Unicorn: How Two Mathematicians Came to the Aid of the Met," by Richard Preston; "What in the Name of Euclid Is Going on Here?," by Dana Mackenzie; Others.

Presents reviews several mathematical books and articles. "Maths Millions Still Safe," by Christopher Watson in "The Australian"; "The Strange Case of Louis de Branges," by Karl Sabbagh in the "London Review of Books 26"; "A $459,279 question," by Jerome Shipman in the "London Review of Books 19"; Others.

The article reviews the book "Mathematical Modeling of Earth's Dynamical Systems: A Primer" by Lee Kump and Rudy Slingerland.

The article reviews the book "Probability Tales" by Charles M Grinstead, William P Peterson and Laurie Snell.

The article reviews the book "The Mathematics of Life" by Ian Stewart.

The article reviews the book "Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry" by Glen Van Brummelen.

The article reviews the book "Who's #1? The Science of Rating and Ranking" by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer.

The article reviews the books "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011" and "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010," edited by Mircea Pitici.

The article reviews the book "Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies," by Howard Wainer.

The article reviews the book "Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks," by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham.

The article reviews the book "Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason," by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften.

The article reviews the book "Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems From Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction," by Paul Nahin.

The article reviews the book "Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air," by David J. C. MacKay.

The article reviews the book "Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss," by Susan Holmes, Richard Montgomery, and Persi Diaconis.

The article reviews the book "Chess, Change and Conspiracy," by Mark Segal.

The article reviews the book " Summa Summarum," by Mogens Esrom Larsen.

The article reviews the book "The Mathematician's Brain," by David Ruelle.

The article reviews the book "Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr," by Michael A. B. Deakin.

The article reviews the book "The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist," by William Noel and Reviel Netz.