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Paul Taylor is our Reviews Editors. Paul is a professional musician. When he is not on the road with various jazz and Latin bands, he is developing and promoting two of his own inventions: The Blowpipes Trombone Trio, and Trombone Poetry, a solo project.
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,...
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society
by David Sloan Wilson
Chicago University Press, ISBN 0-226-90134-3
Wilson argues that the social phenomenon of religion can...
The Book of Nothing: a natural history of “zero”
The Book of Nothing
by John D Barrow
Vintage, £8.99, ISBN 0099288451
Barrow is a professor of mathematical sciences, and author of “Theories of Everything” and “Impossibility”.
This...
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