The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology
Michael Gard & Jan Wright
Routledge, £22.99, ISBN 0415 31896-3
Concern about obesity is nothing new: even Hippocrates saw it...
The Science of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
by Michael Hanlon
Palgrave Macmillan, £16.99, ISBN 1403945772
I approached this book with trepidation, not being a Guide...
The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson
Picador, £7.99 (pbk), ISBN 0330375482
Jon Ronson brings his inimitable journalistic talent to bear on the subject of...
Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today
by John Dupré
OUP, £7.99 (pbk), ISBN 0-19-928421-0
Dupré, a philosopher of biology, asks: “What does evolution tell us about ourselves...
Vampire Nation
by Arlene Russo
John Blake, £17.99, ISBN 1 84454 172 X
Arlene Russo, editor of Bite Me magazine, surveys the UK vampire scene with mixed...
Beginner's Guide to Reality
by Jim Baggott
Penguin Books, £7.99, ISBN 0-141-01930-1
Although the author does not use the word, this is an introduction to epistemology, the...
Jesus Never Existed
by Kenneth Humphreys
Iconoclast Press 2005 £15 (pb), ISBN 0-906879-14-0
That the story of Jesus is almost entirely myth is no secret to readers...
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos
by Michio Kaku
Penguin Books, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 0141014636
It has become compulsory to...
