This book does an excellent job of showing that scientists inevitably employ metaphors to do their work and communicated it to others, and discussing the implications of this for our understanding of the nature of science. But it does not go nearly as far as it might in exploring the social and cultural implications of this. While the concluding chapter discusses the "greenhouse effect" metaphor as an example of how scientific metaphors can become politicized, it ignores a large body of scholarship that has charted the central role of scientific metaphors in modern culture. ( )