Society

Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illnesses and Social Delusion by Robert E Bartholomew McFarland and Company, £28.45,...

Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher by Nicholas Fearn Atlantic Books, £9.99, ISBN 1903809134 This is really a fun book. Fearn, a philosophy...

Gods of the New Millennium by Alan F Alford Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99, ISBN 0340696133 The plot of the story is simple. Ancient civilisations report their gods...

Mapping The Mind by Rita Carter Phoenix, ISBN 0735810190 This beautiful book can be unreservedly recommended to anyone who wants a non-technical guide to brain research. It...

Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature by Kenen Malik Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20, ISBN 0297643053 On the shelf above...

Time Storms: The Amazing Evidence of Time Warps, Space Rifts and Time Travel by Jenny Randles Piatkus , £17.99, ISBN 0749921595 When you make extraordinary claims, you...

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins by Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins Joseph Henry Press, £12.95, ISBN 030907309X Wynn...

The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield Penguin, £5.99, ISBN 0140264914 Susan Greenfield is the neuroscientist from Oxford who is already very well known as...