Illuminating ... Ms. Heisman writes to inform, not to impress. Mixing scientific description with relaxed folksiness, she readily admits that she had to look up the word “manqué ... And even though she remains mostly mum about her personal life... she easily wins the reader’s heart, especially when she wittily downplays her own ornithological credentials ... Flight Paths does what only the best science books do: It adds to our knowledge of the world without diminishing its wonder.
A winning examination of the seasonal movements of birds ... Heisman pulls off the impressive feat of making technical discussions of genome sequencing and isotope analysis accessible, and the profiles offer revealing glimpses into the process and production of scientific knowledge.
