Society
When skepticism collides with human experience. The societal implications of scientific skepticism.
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
by Kary Mullis
Bloomsbury Publishing, £7.99, 0747545537
Someone once observed that the real title of every book ever written is How...
The Man Who Found the Missing Link
The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois
by Pat Shipman
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £25.00, 0297842900
This is not a biography in...
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, 2002, £45, ISBN 0198187009
Nowadays Nowadays eugenics...
Everything You Know is Wrong: the Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
Everything You Know is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Life
by Russ Kick (Editor)
The Disinformation Company Ltd, £17.99, ISBN 0971394202
This is a compilation...
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,...