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The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living

The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra Flamingo, £8.99, ISBN 000655158 0 Fritjof Capra is a physicist who has produced a series of...

A Devil’s Chaplain (Selected essays)

A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings by Richard Dawkins Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £16.99, ISBN 0297829734 Dawkins has done so much to promote the scientific and sceptical outlook that...

The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and their Lightbulb

The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and their Lightbulb by Keith Tutt Simon & Schuster, £7.00, ISBN 0743449762 This fascinating book covers a good selection, though admittedly...

Flat Earth? Round Earth?

Flat Earth? Round Earth? by Theresa Martin Prometheus Books, $12, ISBN 1573929883 Two schoolboys argue about the shape of the world. The teacher says it’s a sphere,...

The Sense of Being Stared at

The Sense of Being Stared at: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind by Rupert Sheldrake Hutchinson, £17.99, ISBN 0091794633 This is a book about human and...

EUREKA! The Birth of Science

Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory Icon Books UK, £6.99, ISBN 1840463740 Books on philosophy are often encyclopeadic and hard to digest, interesting but boring;...

Darwin and the Barnacle

Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott Faber, £14.99, ISBN 0571209661 What happens when someone brought up as a strict Christian fundamentalist abandons her faith and writes...

Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Christopher Wanjek Wiley & Sons, $15.95, ISBN 047143499X In this enjoyable history of quackery,...
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