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Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman by Angelique Richardson Oxford University Press, £45, ISBN 0198187009 Nowadays eugenics is a...

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr (Editors) Guilford Press, 2003, £31.95, ISBN 1572308281 This is a US...

Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries?

Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics By Martin Gardner W. W. Norton...

Immortal Remains: the evidence for life after death

Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death By Stephen E Braude Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, ISBN 0-7425-1472-2 “Rascals! Would you live for ever?”, Frederick the...

Galileo’s Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science By Peter Atkins Oxford University Press 2003, £20.00, ISBN 0-19 860664-8 Richard Dawkins, quoted on the back cover, says Atkins...

Brainwashing: The science of thought control

Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor Oxford University Press, £18.99, ISBN 0-19-280496-0 This is a book of three parts. In the first section, Taylor...

Trust: From Socrates to Spin

Trust: ..From Socrates to Spin by Kieron O’Hara Icon Books, £12.99, ISBN 1 840446 531 X Trust, as the author points out, is a universal component...

Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller Oxford University Press, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 0198609396 Waller’s main theme is our predilection...
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