Reviews

Just Another Day: The Science and Technology of our Everyday Lives by Adam Hart-Davis Orion Books, ISBN 0752873342 Given the relentless tide of mind-shrinking nonsense that drenches...

Opus Dei: The Truth About Its Rituals, Secrets and Power by John L Allen Penguin Books, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 0141024658 Thanks to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code...

A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: What Would an Alien Look Like? Is Time Travel Possible? and Other Intergalactic Conumdrums from the World of...

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Norton Paperback, £12.69, ISBN 978-0-393-32912-4 Is there life after death and, if so, how can we find out? One...

After Atheism: Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life By Mark Vernon Palgrave Macmillan £18.99 ISBN 0230013414 It is a shame that Mark Vernon and his version...

Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials By Michael A G Michaud Copernicus Books (Springer Science + Business Media), £17.50 (hb), ISBN 0-387-28598-9 Probably....

Newton: A Very Short Introduction by Rob Lliffe Oxford University Press, £6.99, ISBN 978 0 19 929803 7 Rob Lliffe is well placed to analyse the life...

Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian Oxford University Press, £14.99 (hb), ISBN 0-19-928718-X The glorious Sokal booby-trap of 1996 seems to have done...